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Gift creates neuroscience fellowships at KU Medical Center

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A $1.25 million gift to KU Endowment has created the Mabel A. Woodyard Fellowships in Neurodegenerative Disorders at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

ROTC units commission 31 new officers

LAWRENCE ??? Twenty-seven graduates of the University of Kansas were honored as newly commissioned officers in the armed forces during ceremonies Monday. An additional four graduates of other universities were honored as well.

Today's fear and loathing of fat bodies rooted in ancient Western civilization

LAWRENCE -- Our modern love-hate relationship with fat dates to antiquity, says a University of Kansas researcher who writes about the cultural history of fat in Western civilization.


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