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Areas of Emphasis: School of Medicine

Themes:
  • Curriculum innovation
  • Outcomes research
  • Public health and health disparities
  • Service to Kansas
Research areas of emphasis – established programs:
  • Cancer
    • Drug development
    • Cancer control and population health
    • Prevention
  • Neuroscience/Brain Health
  • Reproductive biology/Maternal/Fetal/Child Health
  • Kidney
  • Liver
Research areas of emphasis – emerging programs:
  • Bioengineering
  • Diabetes
  • Heart
  • Immunology/Virology
  • Integrative and Complementary Medicine
  • Obesity
  • Opthalmology
  • Personalized Medicine
Bold Aspirations

Bold Aspirations is the strategic plan for KU, comprising individual plans for the following:

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When KU students moved out of their residence halls this spring, KU Surplus decided to use students’ left behind items for a good cause. More than 600 pieces of furniture, 1,534 pounds of non perishable food and 5,000 pounds of clothing were collected and donated to charitable organizations in the Kansas and Missouri area. http://bit.ly/1npheRj Tags: #KUcommunities #KUstudents #CommunityService #Residence #MoveOut #Surplus #Furniture #Clothes #Charity #Donations
Inside KU: Military language training, bullying, arthritis and KU's Panorama
Inside KU: Military language training, bullying, arthritis and KU's Panorama "Inside KU" explains how a Department of Defense grant is helping to provide real-world language training to military personnel soon to be deployed around the world. Learn more about KU Graduate Military Programs at (http://bit.ly/1rZHgAh). Also: KU researchers are working with Kansas schools to develop policies to stop bullying (See http://bit.ly/1jvhpxL). Bioengineering students at KU work on a potential treatment for arthritis (See KU-BERC at http://bit.ly/W1zAR5). The historic Panorama in KU's Natural History Museum is being expertly preserved (See http://bit.ly/1mPqJNd). The Time Warner Cable Sports Network's "Inside KU" is hosted by Jeannie Hodes.


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Why KU
  • One of 34 U.S. public institutions in the prestigious Association of American Universities
  • 26 prestigious Rhodes Scholars — more than all other Kansas colleges combined
  • Nearly $290 million in financial aid annually
  • 1 of 9 public universities with outstanding study abroad programs.
    —U.S. News & World Report
  • 46 nationally ranked graduate programs.
    —U.S. News & World Report
  • Top 50 nationwide for size of library collection.
    —ALA
  • $260.5 million in externally funded research expenditures
  • 23rd nationwide for service to veterans —"Best for Vets," Military Times
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