The following are University of Kansas Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway’s prepared remarks for the All-University Supper.
February 27, 2008
Astronaut Steve Hawley comes home to KU to teach, promote science education
University of Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway announced today that Hawley, a Salina native and 1973 KU graduate in physics and astronomy, will join the university faculty this fall to teach and to promote education in science and math.
January 31, 2008
KU chancellor takes questions on live TV from Chinese audience
University of Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway today will answer questions directly from viewers across China during an hour-long Voice of America television broadcast. “Issues and Opinions,” the longest-running TV program on VOA, reaches an estimated audience of 2 million Mandarin speakers and also is simulcast on shortwave radio.
While at the Voice of America (VOA) studios in Washington, D.C., Chancellor Hemenway (far right) and Provost Richard Lariviere (far left) met with VOA director and KU graduate, Danforth Austin (middle). More information.
November 7, 2007
KU chancellor elected to prestigious research university board
Chancellor Robert Hemenway has been elected to the 11-member executive committee for the Association of American Universities, an organization representing 60 of the nation’s most prestigious research universities as well as two major universities in Canada.
Apr 14, 2007
KU’s Atkinson displays selfless leadership
The following commentary by Chancellor Robert Hemenway regarding KU Medical Center leader Dr. Barbara Atkinson was published in the Lawrence Journal World on April 14, 2007.
Civic leaders and university officials opened the doors to the state-of-the-art Life Sciences Innovation Center on the KU medical center campus Jan. 23. Research programs in the five-story, 205,000-square-foot facility will focus on liver disease, reproductive sciences, neuroscience, diabetes and the emerging field of proteomic. More information
Dec 12, 2005
Chancellor invited to attend University Presidents Summit in Washington, D.C. University of Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway is among a select group of higher education leaders invited to attend the U.S. State Department's University Presidents Summit next month to help develop an action plan for encouraging more students to study abroad and to encourage more foreign students to enroll in U.S. universities.
Dec 29, 2004
KU offers assistance to international students affected by tsunami disaster
University of Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway sent an e-mail message today
to KU's 1,750 international students and scholars, including more than 300 who
are from the Asian nations devastated by Sunday's tsunami, to offer assistance
and seek information about anyone with a KU affiliation in the area.
Oct 13, 2004
KU
chancellor to attend dedication honoring KU alumni, poets
University of Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway will be one of several
speakers at a ceremony Saturday, Oct. 16, in Liberal to rename the Liberal High
School Library in honor of KU alumni and nationally known poets B.H. "Pete" Fairchild
and the late William Stafford.
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