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Mon, 08/25/2025
Misty Heggeness Featured on CBS, Warns of Growing Inequities in Workforce Trends
COBRE BD-WH Research Project Leader (RPL) and KU Professor Misty Heggeness joined "CBS News" and "CBS Mornings Plus" to explain why women, especially mothers, are leaving the workforce, and how return-to-office mandates and rising childcare costs are playing a role.
Mon, 08/11/2025
Aaron Teator receives NSF CAREER Award for research on synthetic polymers
Aaron Teator, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, at the University of Kansas is the winner of a five-year grant totaling more than $687,000 from the National Science Foundation. Under his CAREER Award, Dr. Teator will research ways to develop new reactions leading to unique synthetic polymers.
Mon, 06/30/2025
Associate Professor Rebecca Whelan Named May 2025 Sutton Family Research Impact Award Recipient (Opens in new window)
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Associate Professor Rebecca Whelan on receiving the May 2025 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! ...
Sat, 06/07/2025
Rebecca Whelan featured in Bench to Bedside Podcast
Prof. Whelan's interview for the Bench to Bedside podcast is now live! Hear from our very own Professor Rebecca Whelan on the science behind ovarian cancer detection in a recent episode of the Bench to Bedside podcast. ...
Fri, 01/31/2025
Research led by Rebecca Whelan sheds new light on a key ovarian cancer biomarker (Opens in new window)
Researchers at KU Cancer Center have uncovered the true structure of the CA125 protein, a discovery that could lead to more precise testing for ovarian cancer. ...
Tue, 12/17/2024
Mental health stigma negatively influences those even with good intentions, research finds
In a new paper, Elizabeth Felix, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Kansas, investigates the presence of a potentially unique actor in the stigma process: the aversive stigmatizer. These are individuals who deliberately reject negative cultural stereotypes but still hold implicit mental illness-related biases that may inadvertently influence discriminatory behaviors.
Tue, 05/28/2024
KU establishes $11 million biomedical center to advance women’s health using big data
A new grant from the National Institutes of Health will establish a multidisciplinary biomedical center at the University of Kansas to research big data’s potential to improve women’s health. It will fund KU’s fifth Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.
Thu, 05/09/2024
KU researcher part of national survey to study how youths take part in labor market
A KU researcher will be part of a partnership to establish the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 2027, the latest effort from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics to understand how youths take part in the labor market and how that affects their lives and livelihood.