Oh yay, the KU Common Book for the upcoming year is going to be Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower! Super excited about this! Time for a reread.

"Faculty, instructors and campus partners" can request a copy here, but in previous years Watson library usually had free copies of the Common Book at the counter for everyone (until suppies last, I guess, but I saw it replenished):

https://commonbook.ku.edu/common-book-2023-24

#KU #Jayhawks #UniversityOfKansas #HigherEd #CommonBook #OctaviaButler #SFF #Bookstodon

"Frontiers in #WaterQuality Science: Origins, Patterns, and Detection of Spatial and Temporal Variation" runs across three #AGU22 session types on Monday - in person, online poster, and afternoon poster session.

Cluster member Erin Seybold, based at the #UniversityOfKansas, and collaborators have a great day of #CriticalZone #hydrology research presentations planned.

🗓️ 🔗 https://bit.ly/CZNAGU22121204

Article from @lawrencekstimes about the planned demolition of Smith Hall on #KU #Lawrence campus.

I teach in this building and it needs to be renovated, not destroyed. The Religious Studies Library is one of my favorite spots on campus overall.

https://lawrencekstimes.com/2022/11/30/smith-hall-open-house/

#LFK #UniversityOfKansas #HistoricPreservation #MCM #Modernism #ModernArchitecture #PublicArt #StainedGlass

Really happy to see that the unionizing efforts at my workplace have come to bear fruit!

Graduate Teaching Assistants were already unionized (to much benefit) and now this is for faculty and academic staff!

Here is the press release:
https://unitedacademicsku.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/uaku-press-release.pdf

And here is where to request your card:
https://uaku.org/

#KU #UniversityOfKansas #LFK #Union #UnionStrong #KSpol #KSpoli #Kansas