KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Feb. 26 [Category: Sports] -- The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics posted the following news release: * * * 2024-25 NAIA Men's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll - Final (February 26) KANSAS CITY, Mo. - For the sixth time this season a new No. 1 emerges with the College of Idaho receiving 16-of-17 first-place votes in the final NAIA Men's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll. LSU Alexandria (La.), Arizona Christian, Georgetown (Ky.), and Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.)   more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Feb. 25 [Category: Sociological] -- Americans for Prosperity posted the following news release: * * * Americans for Prosperity-Kansas Issues Statement on School Bond Property Tax Vote # Feb 25, 2025 by AFP Wichita, KS --Following the vote to oppose the USD 259 bond which would impose high property taxes long term to fund school projects in Wichita, Americans for Prosperity-Kansas (AFP-KS) State Director Elizabeth Patton issued the following statement: "Our parents   more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Feb. 27 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Jayhawk Athletic Performance Lab teams up with KU Football to elevate pro day training LAWRENCE -- The Jayhawk Athletic Performance Laboratory (JAPL), a sport performance-based research center housed under the Achievement & Assessment Institute, is collaborating with Kansas Athletics to help KU football players better prepare for the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine and Big 12 Pro Day through technology and data a  more

MANHATTAN, Kansas, Feb. 27 -- Kansas State University issued the following news release: * * * K-State researchers developing index to measure cattle pain, stress using consumption rate By Joe Montgomery MANHATTAN -- How much can you tell about a cow's health by the way and rate at which it eats? A team of researchers in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University is developing a way to tie that rate to cattle health. Hans Coetzee, currently the interim vice president of   more

IRVING, Texas, Feb. 27 -- The Big 12 Conference, a college athletic conference, issued the following news: * * * K-State's Chogsomjav and TCU's Vives Garner Big 12 Weekly Tennis Awards Kansas State's Maralgoo Chogsomjav (women's) and TCU's Pedro Vives (men's) garnered the Big 12 Men's and Women's Tennis Players of the Week for Matches ending Feb. 23. Chogsomjav finished a combined 3-1 and an unblemished 2-0 in singles play. The sophomore from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia led the Wildcats to a 4-3 w  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Feb. 27 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Presentation at KU Libraries to highlight impact of open education LAWRENCE -- Virginia Clinton-Lisell, associate professor in educational foundations and research at the University of North Dakota and lead researcher of the Open Education Group, will visit the University of Kansas Lawrence campus to deliver a public lecture about her research on open education. Open educational resources (OER) are openly   more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Feb. 27 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Author pays tribute to 'Bob Dylan of the English Renaissance' LAWRENCE -- Jonathan Lamb likes to think of Philip Sidney as "the Bob Dylan of the English Renaissance." Not only does the University of Kansas associate professor of English make the comparison because Sidney was so facile with words, but because he often confounded his audience's expectations. Lamb's chapter, titled "Sentences," is part of th  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Feb. 27 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Researcher urges emphasis on democratic accountability standards in public administration education LAWRENCE -- To say the field of public administration has changed rapidly in recent months would be an understatement. And as headlines about President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's efforts to downsize the federal workforce reflect, the role of the public servant is changing. While that example is fresh, chang  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Feb. 27 -- The University of Nebraska issued the following news: * * * Husker scientist illuminates species' ability to glow By Deann Gayman From the lakes in Minnesota and the streams in Kansas and Nebraska to the Pacific Ocean off the shores of California and the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Husker biologist Rene Martin is chasing light. Or, more specifically, bioluminescence and biofluorescence. Martin, assistant professor in the School of Natural R  more