KU wins the national championship game! After defeating Memphis 75-68 in overtime, the Jayhawks clinch the fifth national championship in school history and the first since 1988. Tuesday classes are canceled in honor of KU's victory. Classes canceled in honor of KU victory; welcome-home event set for Tuesday.
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The Kansas Jayhawks won the 2008 NCAA Championship beating out Memphis 75-68. I was actually rooting for Kansas, but it would have been something if either team had won. Kansas almost lost it during regulation, but managed to tie it up at the end, which led to overtime and them winning.
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Mario Chalmers led Kansas (KU Basketball team) with 18 points and made two key defensive plays in the final minutes to lift the third-ranked Jayhawks to a 76-70 win at Missouri in Big 12 basketball action here Saturday night.
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Robert Horton, a 2003 School of Fine Arts graduate with a DMA in organ performance, recently won 1st place in the 5th annual Mikael Tariverdiev International Organ Competition in Kaliningrad, Russia, on September 7.
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A Kansas University graphic design student recently received a student scholarship worth $1,000 from the American Institute for Graphic Artists (AIGA), an association for graphic designers. The picture shows 'Chocolate Book Cover by Laura Rottinghaus'.
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Kansas University's Department of Music and Dance in the School of Fine Arts is pleased to present Joy of Singing, an annual event that features all twelve KU choirs. The spring concert is sponsored by the KU Choral Society/KUCS.
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The Department of Design in KU's School of Fine Arts announced that it has developed a project with telecommunication industry leaders Nokia and Cingular, now part of the new AT&T. Partnering with the School of Journalism's News and Information area as well as The School of Business Entrepreneurship Program, the design department will examine the high-end Nokia N93 and N73 camera phones.
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Students and recent graduates in the Department of Design at the University of Kansas walked away big winners at the third annual American Institute of Graphic Artists Kansas City Design Awards. The event, also known as A3 Awards, took place Jan. 19 in Kansas City, Mo. KU received 27 awards at the competition - the most awards given to a participating group.
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This year marks the 30th birthday for the KU Jazz Festival, sponsored by KU's Music and Dance Department in the School of Fine Arts. The festival, which features educational and performance opportunities for students and live concerts for the general public, takes place March 2-3, 2007.
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Thomas Huang, assistant professor of industrial design in KU's Department of Design, was recently named as a 2007 American Craft Show Searchlight Artist. Huang joins fourteen other artists as a nominated Searchlight Artist, a category newly created by the American Craft Council to feature emerging artists.
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A proposal to turn a section of the Kansas River trail into a sculpture trail may soon become a reality. If all goes as planned, a new work created by John Hachmeister, KU associate professor of sculpture, will be installed on a trail that connects Burcham Park and Constant Park near downtown Lawrence.
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The Department of Music and Dance in KU's School of Fine Arts presents the first KU Wind Ensemble concert of the spring semester on Friday, February 16, at 7:30 p.m. The concert is entitled "A Bridge to the Past," with selections including Gran Partita in B-flat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, J.S.
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