Good Works in the Heartland

Howard Graham, Associate Director for Academic Programs with the KU Office of First-Year Experience talks to us about KU Common Book. KU Common Book is a campus-wide initiative started by the University of Kansas in 2012, with the goal of engaging first-year students. A key component of the KU strategic plan is to invest in intellectual experiences for first-year students. As part of this emphasis...

Nine Questions series continues with writer Molly Krause. Molly was born and raised in Kansas, graduating from The University of Kansas with a degree in Social Welfare. Her debut novel, 'Joy Again', was published by Bedazzled Ink in April 2016. She co-authored 'The Flavorful Kitchen Cookbook' and her essays have appeared in Ragazine, Manifest-Station, and Brain, Child. She lives in Lawrence, Kansa...

Storyteller Priscilla Howe travels the world with a head full of stories and a bag full of puppets. She tells stories without props, sets, costumes or scripts. What kind? Folktales, stories from books, her own (almost true) experiences and stories that tiptoe closer to jokes, Her favorite audience is the one in front of her at any given moment. Children? Yes! Teens? Definitely. Grown-ups? You bet....

The 2016 Summer Olympics games kick off this week in Rio, and to celebrate, the Watkins Museum of History in Lawrence currently has an Olympic-themed exhibition – as well as a series of events and activities – that celebrate Kansas- and Douglas County connections to the summer Olympics. The exhibition is titled "Faster, Higher, Stronger: Douglas County Olympians,” and features a wealth of informat...

This week on The Rolling Wave, we discuss the #WeAreAmerica viral video released for 4th July as part of the #LoveHasNoLabels campaign by the Ad Council. We speak with Ad Council Campaign Director, Jennifer Walters. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/0MdK8hBkR3s Share your support for love and inclusion by creating your own #WeAreAmerica gif at www.lovehasnolabels.com. Visit Ad Council’s Official...

Molly Murphy solo exhibition: Relation Opening Reception: Final Fridays, June 24th 5-9pm *show runs through July* From the artist: Drawing from elements of the natural world and the mind-body connection, Murphy creates richly textured canvases that immediately strike viewers with their physical depth, the surfaces eluding to the many layers that lie beneath. "My work is meditative in both subject...

Now in its ninth year, the Lawrence Busker Festival is the largest gathering of street performers in the area. Welcoming performers from a wide variety of styles, skills, talents and colors, the festival takes place May 27-29 on the streets of Downtown Lawrence. Richard Renner, director of the Lawrence Busker Festival, joins us this week on The Rolling Wave. www.lawrencebuskerfest.com -- The Rolli...

Kansas has remarkable stories, but many of them are not widely known or taught in our schools. The Kansas People’s History Project will begin to address this gap by making history present and visible in our everyday lives. This is a project spear-headed by Lawrence artist Dave Loewenstein and back in February, Dave joined us here in the studios in Audio Reader to tell us a little bit more about wh...