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LAWRENCE — The first two years of life have been challenging for Amira Payne and her family. The Topeka toddler has severe scoliosis and a condition known as Smith-Magenis syndrome, which has delayed her development and left her with low muscle tone, making it difficult to stand and walk. A group of engineering students at the University of Kansas spent their senior year designing and building renovations to a toddler bumper car with special features to help Amira move around on her own.
Study shows constructed wetlands are best protection for agricultural runoff into waterways
LAWRENCE — A new paper from a lead author based at the University of Kansas finds wetlands constructed along waterways are the most cost-effective way to reduce nitrate and sediment loads in large streams and rivers. Rather than focusing on individual farms, the research suggests conservation efforts using wetlands should be implemented at the watershed scale.
Spencer Museum announces KU Common Work of Art for 2021-2022
LAWRENCE — The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas announces “Native Host,” a series of five signs by artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne, Arapaho), as the KU Common Work of Art for the 2021-2022 academic year. The series will complement the 2021-2022 KU Common Book “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi).
Five KU staff, faculty members take on additional diversity, equity responsibilities
LAWRENCE – Five individuals at the University of Kansas are taking on enhanced roles in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, either as a promotion or an expansion of their current responsibilities. In a report to the Kansas Board of Regents last year, D.A. Graham, KU’s interim vice provost of diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, wrote that having individuals connected to the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging in each school, division and unit will help the university “better understand our constituents’ concerns in order to creatively advocate and problem-solve.”
KU Department of Theatre & Dance names 2021 award winners
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Department of Theatre & Dance recognized 65 students as recipients of its year-end awards and scholarships, totaling over $175,000 in financial support. Kansas award recipients include students from Arkansas City, Atchison, Chanute, Emporia, Hesston, Hiawatha, Lansing, Lawrence, Lenexa, Lindsborg, Olathe, Overland Park, Perry, Shawnee, Topeka and Wichita.
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KU Engineering students re-imagine bumper scooter to create new opportunities for toddler with disabilities
LAWRENCE — The first two years of life have been challenging for Amira Payne and her family. The Topeka toddler has severe scoliosis and a condition known as Smith-Magenis syndrome, which has delayed her development and left her with low muscle tone, making it difficult to stand and walk.
So when a group of engineering students at the University of Kansas spent their senior year designing and building renovations to a toddler bumper car with special features to help Amira move around on her own, her mother was overwhelmed.
“All the emotions,” Peggy Payne said in May, after the students presented the new device to Amira. “Excited for her, that she literally gets to zoom through everything now. Sad that she has to go through all these steps, but also so happy that she has all these people that are rooting for her.”
Payne added: “It really is life-changing, for her and for us.”
It made a big impact, as well, on the engineering students who worked on the project.
“As mechanical engineering students, you’re often solving or dealing with inanimate objects — we’re just punching numbers into a calculator. That can create some disconnect from reality,” said Mike Park, a graduating senior from Wichita who helped lead the project.
“Seeing Amira in real life and her current device changed our perspective on the project. It gave us the revelation that our work will impact this girl’s life.”
The journey to creating Amira’s new bumper car started in October 2020, when KU was connected to the Payne family through TARC, a Shawnee County nonprofit agency that provides services to children with intellectual disabilities. The agency responded to an email call for suggested projects from Ken Fischer, bioengineering program director, professor of mechanical engineering, and the director of KU’s Biomechanical and Rehabilitation Engineering Advancement in Kansas (BREAK) program.
BREAK gives engineering students the opportunity, as part of their senior-year capstone project, to create customized design services to individuals with disabilities.
“It seemed like the perfect marrying of our mission and their mission as a school, to create a situation that legitimately will change Amira’s life,” said Alisha Delgado, a speech-language pathologist for the infant-toddler program at TARC.
Park was part of a four-person team that worked on Amira’s project. They were faced with one unusual challenge — pandemic precautions limited the direct visits they could conduct with Amira and her family. “They were having to overcome some of those remote difficulties,” Fischer said.
In the end, the students took an off-the-shelf motorized toddler bumper car — the kind that can be bought easily at any big retail store — and then went to work rebuilding it, installing a new car seat and head support, as well as padding for her feet. They replaced the hollow plastic wheels with rubber wheels for durability. To make it like a power wheelchair, they installed one multidirectional joystick to operate the vehicle — it originally came with two sticks that independently operated motors at each wheel.
“We improved every aspect of this device to make it more durable, safer and better able to fit her needs,” Park said.
“They’ve been amazing at asking super-deep thoughtful questions, and are always responding with ‘How can we make this better for Amira?’” Delgado said of the engineering students.
The resulting creation was a hit with Amira, who received her new device in May.
“I think today, what we saw was nothing but joy in her face,” said Delgado, who called the moment “one of the highlights of my career.” The bumper car, she said, will help Amira’s development — not just in moving around, but also cognitively, since she’ll have more freedom to explore and engage the world around her.
Fischer hopes the project will influence the careers of the students who worked on it.
“I think that this program in general — especially these highly successful projects where they know and see they have an impact — helps them see how they can use their engineering degree to help others,” Fischer said. “I’m hopeful these students will continue to use them to help people with needs like this.”
BREAK originated in 2012 with funding from the National Science Foundation. That funding expired in 2018, but the program has been sustained by KU since then. Fischer is seeking new outside funding to continue the effort.
“It’s the School of Engineering that’s allowing us to continue these projects,” Fischer said. “Engineering is investing in Kansas and in Kansans, but also in giving our students real-world experiences that have an impact.”
It certainly has made an impact on Amira and her family.
“Something happens with Amira and she shows us that she’s not going to allow her syndrome to write her story,” Peggy Payne said. “She’s going to overcome it and she’s going to be her own person. She is very sassy and lets us know.”
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Study shows constructed wetlands are best protection for agricultural runoff into waterways
LAWRENCE — A new paper from a lead author based at the University of Kansas finds wetlands constructed along waterways are the most cost-effective way to reduce nitrate and sediment loads in large streams and rivers. Rather than focusing on individual farms, the research suggests conservation efforts using wetlands should be implemented at the watershed scale.
The paper, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, relied on computer modeling to examine the Le Sueur River Basin in southern Minnesota, a watershed subject to runoff from intense agricultural production of corn and soybeans — crops characteristic of the entire Upper Midwest region.
“Excessive nitrate or sediment affect local fish populations, the amount of money we have to spend to treat drinking water, and there’s a downstream effect also,” said lead author Amy Hansen, assistant professor of civil, environmental & architectural engineering at KU. “Our rivers integrate what’s happening across the landscape, so that location that you love to go and fish or swim — whether that continues to be a great place to fish or swim has a lot to do with the choices that people are making further upstream. Excess pollution goes to a water body downstream like a reservoir or the ocean and causes algal blooms or hypoxic or ‘dead zones.’ The dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico is directly correlated with nitrate that comes from the Mississippi River Basin.”
The research team compared potential watershed approaches to improving water quality, such as cutting runoff from farms and adding wetlands, then gauged the economic costs of each. Because most methods rely on voluntary participation by individual farms and are implemented by a patchwork of different agencies, the researchers found they’re less effective.
“Currently, there’s individual management or conservation practices, and those include cover crop, high-precision fertilizer application, reduced tillage, constructed wetlands and ravine tip management. Those are some of the different practices we considered,” Hansen said. “But management of non-point sources is voluntary in the U.S. through incentive programs, and the scale these conservation practices are often considered at is the individual farmer when a coordinated approach is much more effective. In a way, it’s like a recycling program where you’re saying, ‘Anyone recycling one thing is better than no one recycling.’ This is true, some recycling is better than no recycling, but a coordinated approach will save money and be more effective.”
Hansen and her co-authors found constructed wetlands are the most effective of these practices, especially if the size and location are evaluated at the scale of a watershed — an entire region that drains into a common waterway. The KU researcher said wetlands do two things well: They slow down water as it heads toward streams and rivers and contain vegetation and microbes that can process nutrients used as fertilizer on crops.
“Microbes and plants within wetlands are actually removing the nitrate from the water,” Hansen said. “With sediment, on the other hand, what the fluvial wetlands are doing is holding water back during these high flows — and by holding that water back you’re getting lower peak stream flows, which is reducing the amount of near channel sediment that’s being transported downstream.”
While Hansen’s research expertise is in water quality, her co-authors from the University of Minnesota, the University of California-Irvine and other institutions across the United States brought multidisciplinary perspectives to the challenge of improving agricultural water quality. The collaboration was supported by an award from the National Science Foundation.
“This work would not have been possible without the diverse expertise and perspective of the team composed of hydrologists, ecologists, geomorphologists, biogeochemists, social scientists and environmental economists,” said Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, the lead principal investigator on the project from the University of California-Irvine. “The sustained NSF support allowed us to take a fresh view of the problem and take the time needed to collect extensive field data, build new models and engage with stakeholders. We hope that our results will affect policy and management as the clock ticks to meet the water quality targets of the state.”
Indeed, a key aspect of the new study focuses on the economics of implementing small, shallow fluvial wetlands and stabilizing ravines. According to the investigators, such measures “were clearly more cost-effective than field management.” But the researchers found the performance of wetlands required optimal placement, and often cost-effective wetlands can be too expensive for a single farm or one agency to put in place.
The PNAS paper concludes a comprehensive strategy must address an entire watershed as a system, combining funds from different programs and agencies and pinpointing locations for fluvial wetlands that will lead to the greatest reduction in nitrates and sediments reaching waterways.
“This work shows that we can’t make real progress toward our goals for improving water quality in agricultural areas with more of a business-as-usual approach,” said study co-author Jacques Finlay, a professor in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota. “Instead, conservation actions, and the investments that support them, can be more effective if they consider the interactions that underlie the source of water pollution and how different management options influence them.”
The researchers used the Le Sueur River Basin as a proof-of-concept watershed but say their findings could be applied to agricultural regions throughout the Midwest.
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Spencer Museum announces KU Common Work of Art for 2021-2022
LAWRENCE — The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas announces “Native Host,” a series of five signs by artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne, Arapaho), as the KU Common Work of Art for the 2021-2022 academic year. The series will complement the 2021-2022 KU Common Book “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi).
Themes in this year’s KU Common Book and Common Work of Art selections explore relationships among art, history, scientific thought and Indigenous ways of generating knowledge. This year also marks the first Common Book partnership between KU and Haskell Indian Nations University.
“Native Host” consists of five aluminum signs and is currently on display in front of the Spencer Museum on Mississippi Street. The signs name Native tribes who historically or currently inhabit the region that is now called Kansas. On each sign, the colonial name is printed backward while the name of the land’s original occupants is printed forward. The visual tension that Heap of Birds creates between these names aims to remind viewers of the displacement of Indigenous peoples from their homelands as well as their continued and active presence in the Americas.
Spencer Museum Curator Kate Meyer said that the selection of “Native Host” was prompted by a line in Kimmerer’s book: “Our relationship with land cannot heal until we hear its stories.”
“‘Native Host’ acknowledges that the land the Spencer Museum and KU reside on holds history and stories beyond or outside colonial expectations,” Meyer said.
Because the signs are installed outdoors, students and other visitors can experience the KU Common Work of Art at any time. A forthcoming virtual exhibition will draw further connections between “Braiding Sweetgrass” and objects in the Spencer’s collection, and a sampling of art included in the virtual exhibition will be on display in the Spencer’s Learning Center when the museum reopens in fall 2021.
A Hawk Week event on Aug. 25 invites students to engage with “Native Hosts” and create their own artwork that explores place, heritage, culture and memory. Resources for expanding conversation about the KU Common Work of Art are available online and will continue to be updated throughout the year. Instructors interested in incorporating the KU Common Work of Art and other Spencer Museum resources into their fall courses should contact Celka Straughn, the Spencer Museum’s deputy director for public practice, curatorial and research.
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Five KU staff, faculty members take on additional diversity, equity responsibilities
LAWRENCE – Five individuals at the University of Kansas are taking on enhanced roles in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, either as a promotion or an expansion of their current responsibilities:
1. Steven Johnson, assistant dean of DEIB, School of Business
2. Ngondi Kamaṱuka, director of Center for Educational Opportunity Programs and assistant dean for DEIB, School of Education & Human Sciences
3. Mindie Paget, assistant vice chancellor for DEIB, Office of Research
4. Roberta Pokphanh, assistant vice provost, International Affairs
5. Kapila Silva, associate dean for DEIB, School of Architecture & Design
“I’m excited about the knowledge, experience and commitment these five will bring to their roles,” said Barbara Bichelmeyer, provost and executive vice chancellor. “They will play an integral role in KU rising to the occasion and creating a more inclusive environment where more empathy is present, particularly for our underrepresented students, faculty and staff.”
In a report to the Kansas Board of Regents last year, D.A. Graham, KU’s interim vice provost of diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, wrote that having individuals connected to the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging in each school, division and unit will help the university “better understand our constituents’ concerns in order to creatively advocate and problem-solve.”
The university and the Office of DEIB have taken a substantial step toward this goal in the last few months with these personnel moves. These five will develop and report on key performance indicators within their school or division, utilizing validated metrics, a universitywide diversity framework and the university strategic plan.
The mission of the Office of DEIB is to create a more equitable and inclusive KU by facilitating the integration of greater representation, fairness, belonging and care into institutional policies, protocols, practices and learning spaces. The expansion of the DEIB presence is a move toward that mission and building healthy and vibrant communities, a key element of the Jayhawks Rising strategic plan.
“They will continue the important work that has already begun at the university to name and acknowledge the legacies of systemic racism and other biases on and off campus,” Graham said. “These positions will also build on initiatives to increase the university’s recruitment and retention of students, faculty and staff from underrepresented groups.
“These individuals will also work with a network of diversity folks, including myself, to develop frameworks that promote equitable, transparent, accountable and positive growth for the larger KU community,” Graham said.
Steven Johnson serves as the assistant dean of DEIB in the School of Business. He is responsible for leading diversity-related recruitment and retention programming, outreach, community engagement, proposal, development, fundraising and evaluation efforts across the school for students, faculty and staff. Johnson acts as the school’s leader in strategies, policies and administration for matters of DEIB.
The School of Business has prioritized DEIB work in multiple ways, including the development of internal and external workgroups, expansion of existing DEIB programs and the introduction of new programs. Appointments with the Pan African Network of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and in the Upper Midwest Region – Association of College and University Housing Officers (UMR-ACUHO) have given Johnson the opportunities to facilitate targeted social justice educational programs and initiatives.
Ngondi Kamaṱuka takes over as assistant dean of DEIB for the School of Education & Human Sciences (SOEHS). He will lead, direct and coordinate all DEIB activities for the school and work with leadership in developing a diversity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for students, faculty and staff. Kamaṱuka will oversee the DEIB component of the hiring process for all SOEHS faculty and staff and help plan DEIB professional development activities.
The longtime Jayhawk is the recipient of several awards, including the KU Unclassified Employee of the Year in 2004. Kamaṱuka has served as the director in the Center for Educational Opportunity Programs, Achievement & Assessment Institute since 1987 and has taught in the school for 15 years.
Mindie Paget assumes the role of assistant vice chancellor for DEIB in the Office of Research, an expansion of her responsibilities as the unit’s director of external affairs. She leads communications, marketing and outreach efforts as well as DEIB strategies, policies and administration for a unit that is committed to creating a research culture that values and fosters diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging – minimizing the effects of bias and recognizing and addressing systemic inequities.
Paget is chair of the KU Research Staff Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Committee and served on the KU School of Law Faculty & Staff Diversity Committee. She earned the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Workplace certificate from the University of South Florida in May 2021.
Roberta Pokphanh serves as assistant vice provost in International Affairs. She will coordinate efforts within International Affairs units around DEIB and academic affairs. She will serve as a liaison to units across campus working on DEIB objectives to ensure inclusion of the perspectives and needs of international students, staff and faculty. She has established a working group that will coordinate DEIB efforts within the division.
Pokphanh is a lifetime member of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), and she currently serves on the board of directors. She is a longtime member of the Native Faculty and Staff Council, and she previously served on Staff Senate.
Kapila Silva, professor of architecture, serves as the associate dean for DEIB in the School of Architecture & Design. He is involved with the Multicultural Architecture Scholars Program (MASP), a key DEIB initiative at the school, first as a volunteer faculty adviser and then for the last nine years as a director. Silva will collaborate with the dean and the school’s DEIB Committee, the departments and the student leadership team to envision, strategize and advocate for measurable action leading toward greater diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the school.
Silva has experimented with how to bring in issues of social justice in architecture by introducing studio projects through which students can address, research and be informed of DEIB themes that are close to their personal experiences and interests. He was presented with the Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator (HOPE) Award from KU in 2020.
DEIB presence continues to expand
Even with the DEIB presence across campus growing, leaders within DEIB believe there is still much work to do to accomplish the big-picture goal of having an associate or assistant dean for DEIB in each school, Graham said. In fact, schools across campus will be hiring for similar DEIB positions in the coming months.
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KU Department of Theatre & Dance names 2021 award winners
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Department of Theatre & Dance recognized 65 students as recipients of its year-end awards and scholarships, totaling over $175,000 in financial support.
“We’ve always considered ourselves fortunate to have the kind of donor support that allows us to recognize so many outstanding students,” said Henry Bial, professor and department chair. “This year, with all that we’ve been through, we appreciate that generosity even more. These scholarships and awards are real difference-makers in terms of students’ ability to graduate and pursue their dreams. The department has more than three dozen named scholarships and awards, which preserve our donors’ legacies.”
The Jon T. Eicholtz and Barbara Eden Acting Scholarship – named in part after the actress best known for starring in television’s “I Dream of Jeannie” – is a full-ride, renewable scholarship awarded to Jayhawks pursuing the craft. Based on the strength of her audition and high school academic achievements, Isabella Lind, from Solvang, California, was selected as the recipient.
The Kilty Kane Award, the highest award that can be given in recognition of outstanding contributions made to the University Theatre by a graduating student, was presented to Gabrielle Smith, of Lansing, who completed her bachelor’s degree in theatre performance. The Kuhlke Humanitarian Award was presented to Tehreem Chaudhry, of Lawrence, who completed her bachelor’s degree in theatre performance. Both of these awards are named for actors (Jerome Kilty and Professor Emeritus William Kuhlke) credited with memorable performances as guest artists in Murphy Hall.
The Elizabeth Sherbon Award, the highest award that can be given in recognition of a dance student, was presented to two students this year: Madison Meade, of Auburn, Nebraska, BFA in dance, who recently completed her junior year, and Cicely Stevenson, of Nauvoo, Illinois, BFA in dance and bachelor’s degree in theatre performance, who recently completed her junior year.
Kansas scholarship and award recipients are listed below. A complete list of recipients is available online:
Kansas
1. Addison Haiden, Lindsborg, Patricia Joyce Ellis Drama Scholarship
2. Anna Shelton, Hesston, Department of Theatre & Dance Scholarship
3. Annika Wallace, Atchison, Alexis and Craig Stevens Performing Arts Scholarship
4. Ashley Ebner, Shawnee, Patricia Joyce Ellis Drama Scholarship
5. Aubrey McGettrick, Wichita, New Theatre Guild William and Penny Gamm Scholarship
6. Bradley Mathewson, Topeka, Charles “Buddy” Rogers Scholarship, Donald and Betty Dixon Scholarship in Theatre
7. Brittany Moss, Lenexa, KU Dance Scholarship
8. Caleb Stephens, Lawrence, Ethel Hinds Burch Outstanding GTA in Theatre Award
9. Cassandra Ludlum, Topeka, New Theatre Guild Jacqueline & Curt Stokes Scholarship
10. Chris Pendry, Lawrence, New Theatre Guild Don Knotts Scholarship, Loren Kennedy Coordinator
11. Diego Rivera-Rodriguez, Lawrence, Kansas, Donald and Betty Dixon Scholarship in Theatre, Loren Kennedy Traineeship
12. Elijah Olson, Hiawatha, Department of Theatre & Dance Scholarship
13. Ella Galbraith, Wichita, New Theatre Guild Dodie Myers Brown Scholarship, Loren Kennedy Coordinator
14. Gabrielle Smith, Lansing, Kilty Kane Award, Shirley and Tom P. Rea Memorial Award
15. Grace DiVilbiss, Lawrence, Jump Start Award
16. Haley Cogbill, Olathe, Adah Clarke Hagan Scholarship, Loren Kennedy Traineeship
17. Hazel Youngquist, Perry, Patricia Joyce Ellis Drama Scholarship
18. India MacDonald, Topeka, Richard Kelton Memorial Scholarship, Loren Kennedy Traineeship
19. Isobel Langham, Topeka, KU Dance
20. Jillian Wilson, Chanute, Claire Reinhold Scholarship
21. Joel Brown, Overland Park, Department of Theatre & Dance Scholarship
22. John Dylon Rohr, Arkansas City, Friends of the Theatre (FROTH) Scholarship, Ethel Hinds Burch Outstanding GTA in Theatre Award
23. Johnny Dinh Phan, Overland Park, Patricia Joyce Ellis Scholarship
24. Jonah Greene, Overland Park, Ambrose Saricks Family Scholarship
25. Kaitlyn Tossie, Lawrence, Susan Tisdall Niven Scholarship, Joseph R. Roach Dissertation Research Award, George Sundstrom Travel Award
26. Kalen Stockton, Lawrence, Laura Louise Pryor Award
27. Lauren Smith, Topeka, Moxie Talent Agency Scholarship, Kari Wahlgren Scholarship
28. Paul-Michael Johnson, Emporia, Margaret Bushong and Suzanne Calvin Scholarship
29. Samantha Gotskind, Overland Park, Charles “Buddy” Rogers Scholarship
30. Shayna Phillips, Lawrence, Department of Theatre & Dance
31. Spencer Walker, Lawrence, David E. Blackwell Scholarship
32. Sydney White, Lawrence, Juanita Strait Scholarship, KU Dance Scholarship
33. Sydney Ebner, Shawnee, Harry B. Craig Dance Scholarship, KU Dance Scholarship
34. Taylor Lee, Lawrence, Department of Theatre & Dance Scholarship
35. Tehreem Chaudhry, Lawrence, Kuhlke Humanitarian Award, Jack B. Wright Award
36. Trevor Rodgers, Olathe, Patricia Joyce Ellis Drama Scholarship, Glenn Bickle Award
37. Webster McDonald, Lawrence, New Theatre Guild Dennis D. Hennessy & Richard Carothers Scholarship, Ethel Hinds Burch Outstanding New GTA in Theatre Award, Social Activism Award
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