Four KU groups that focus on environmental sustainability will benefit when the 2008 "Proud to Be a Jayhawk" tailgating fundraising promotion and the KU football season kicks off at 6 p.m. Saturday. The groups will split $1 from every KU football program sold.

"Wild Science" will bring KU researchers and the public together for lectures and question-and-answer sessions the first Wednesday of every month at the Natural History Museum. The first of the free talks is Sept. 3.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is offering a new Latino/a studies minor this fall. The program offers students the opportunity to study what census reports have identified as the largest minority group in the United States and Kansas.

Get a first look at KU's 2008-09 television ad by visiting KU's new YouTube channel. Titled "A Great Place to Be a Champion," the advertisement promotes KU as a great place to be challenged and inspired — and to be a champion.

The 2008-09 "KU Women of Distinction" calendar is now available. The poster features 11 women pursuing KU degrees, three recent graduates, two faculty members who have received national honors in the past year and more.

Twenty professors will be honored with a $5,000 W.T. Kemper Fellowship in recognition of their teaching and advising excellence. The "surprise patrol" is led by Chancellor Robert Hemenway and other top KU officials who will hand out awards to unsuspecting professors.

Need to know where to go or how to get around campus on the first day of class? Use our interactive map of the Lawrence campus to find your way, locate a bus stop or check for parking before you head out the door.

KU is a great place to earn a degree, and a recent study says it's a top spot to have a career, too. The university is featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education's "2008 Great Colleges to Work For." A KU professor even made the cover of the issue.