KANSAS CITY, Missouri, March 9 -- Energy Inc., a company that says it focuses on producing, transmitting and delivering energy for the benefit of stakeholders, issued the following news release on March 8, 2024: * * * Evergy President and CEO David Campbell to Serve as Chairman of the Board * * * Evergy, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVRG) announced today that Mark Ruelle will not stand for reelection at Evergy's annual meeting on May 7, 2024 as he retires from Evergy's board of directors and his role as ch  more

MANHATTAN, Kansas, March 5 (TNSres) -- Kansas State University issued the following news release: Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, and a Kansas State University graduate student is doing research to identify and improve effective colon cancer care. Many cancer drugs are known to interact with the microbes that inhabit the human gut. Each person's microbes are unique to them -- almost like a fingerprint composed of healthy   more

TOPEKA, Kansas, March 9 -- Gov. Laura Kelly, D-Kansas, issued the following news release on March 7, 2024: Governor Laura Kelly and Kansas Transportation Secretary Calvin Reed today announced the addition of 17 highway modernization and expansion projects - a total investment of $932 million - to the Eisenhower Legacy Transportation Program's (IKE) Development Pipeline. IKE is the Kelly administration's bipartisan 10-year, $10 billion transportation program. The announcement clears the way for  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, March 9 -- The Kansas Department of Transportation issued the following news release: The Kansas Department of Transportation announces approved bids for state highway construction and maintenance projects. The letting took place Feb. 21, 2024, in Topeka. Some of the bids may include multiple projects that have been bundled based on proximity and type of work. District One -- Northeast Johnson - 10-46 KA-6926-01 - K-10, bridge #185 over Cedar Creek located 8.54 miles east of t  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 9 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Three undergraduates at the University of Kansas are nominees for Udall Scholarships, which recognize students who demonstrate leadership, public service and commitment in the fields of tribal public policy, Native health care or the environment. All three of KU's 2024 nominees are competing in the environmental category. KU's 2024 nominees are: * Grant Misse, a junior in environmental studies and music compos  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 9 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Brian McMillan, 65, attends fitness classes four times a week in the Adaptive Athletes in Motion program, which was developed for people with mobility disabilities. "You need strength to get through life," he said. McMillan and each of the other "adaptive athletes," as they are known, ages 14 to 73, participating in the class have a physical condition that challenges their mobility, from ataxia to mult  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, March 9 -- The University of Missouri Kansas City campus issued the following news: By Nicholas Vlasin The University of Missouri-Kansas City Henry W. Bloch School of Management will implement a new schedule for its Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) program to improve the frequency and depth of students' engagement with the course content and focus more in-person class time to interactive activities, while simultaneously eliminating the monthly Friday cl  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 9 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: A University of Kansas researcher from the Department of Physics & Astronomy has been chosen for a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for his innovative work with zinc-ion batteries. Hartwin Peelaers, assistant professor of physics & astronomy, received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the NSF for "Computational Design of High-Performing V205 Cathodes for Z  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 9 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Inmates face numerous difficulties upon reentry into society. Public health care services are not always easily accessible to them while making this transition. "Recidivism is an expensive and tragic societal problem," said David Slusky, a professor of economics at the University of Kansas. "In addition to designing new policies to help reduce it, policymakers also want to understand what existing policie  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, March 9 (TNSres) -- The University of Missouri Kansas City campus issued the following news: By John Martellaro When humans return to the moon, UMKC research will help them avoid problematic interactions with lunar dust while mining that same dust for valuable resources. Ahmed Hassan, Ph.D., associate professor of computing and engineering, is working with partners at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and the Spac  more