Research
The University of Kansas is a major research university with a record of research collaboration promoted through independent, multidisciplinary research centers that focus on common themes.
KU is one of only 34 members of the Association of American Universities. Research activity on the Lawrence campus is overseen by the Office of Research & Graduate Studies and managed by the KU Center for Research Inc.
- KU drug lab targets illness that takes lives of children worldwide
- In the age of Facebook, a KU researcher plumbs shifting online relationships
- KU graduate student researcher takes aim at deadly brain tumors
- KU researcher finds primitive lifestyle elements ease depression
- Innovative KU program to create leaders on urgent issue of climate change
KU is 9th in the world in rate of new patents issued
Pharmacy school is 3rd in nation in NIH research funding
One of only 34 public universities in the prestigious AAU
KU research: 50 percent growth in the past five years
KU ranks 44th among public universities in research expenditures
Education faculty: Top 10 for research productivity
KU will seek Comprehensive Cancer Center designation in 2011
Nanotax was the first cancer drug discovered and developed by KU
The Lawrence Regional Life Sciences Incubator is being built on campus
Two-thirds of KU research expenditures are in the life sciences
A Carnegie Doctoral/Research Extensive University
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