17

• 2011 KCART Discovery Grants fund new collaborations, new uses of technology to explore ASD hypersensitvity, problems with transitions

Oct

17

• 2011 KCART Discovery Grants fund new collaborations, new uses of technology to explore ASD hypersensitvity, problems with transitions

Oct

10

• $7 million grant to continue Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center

Oct

12

• $4.5 million grant to fund new center for research on community integration for people with disabilities
• Nancy Brady wins Autism Speaks pilot grant to test communication intervention for non-verbal children with autism

SEPT

22

• Colombo and Carlson find clear brain and heart benefits in DHA enriched infant formula

SEPT

7

• GE Healthcare partners with KC BioMedix to distribute NTrainer invented at KU by Steven Barlow

AUG

1

• LA Times: Colombo says no downside to DHA supplements for kids

July

14

• Wendy Parent appointed to Kansas Employment First Oversight Commission

June

18

• Vitevitch challenges assumptions of bilingual processing in IScience.

APR

16

• Gerontology Director David Ekerdt ponders radical solutions to KC elder housing problem in KC Star

APR

5

• Mabel Rice points out entrepreneurial aspects of external research funding in Heard on the Hill

APR

4

• Jessica Hellings on self-cutting for Kansas Health: A Prescription for Change, Kansas Public Radio

APR

4

• Distinguished Professor Stephen Fawcett to receive honorary degree from Providence College

APR

2

• Life Span Institute focus of page one LJ World piece featuring Barlow, Anderson and Kemper

JAN

31

• Autism's vocal signature discovery tops list of Autism Speak's Top 10 Science achievements in 2010 (Steven Warren, KU Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies)

JAN

10

• Betty Hart talks about discovering huge differences in vocabulary acquisition between children on National Public Radio

DEC

19

• Betty Hart and Todd Risley's definitive study of vocabulary development cited in Huffington Post

Nov

14

• Susan Kemper refutes pundits' claims of nonproductive senior faculty in Chronicle of Higher Education

JUN

1

• "On the Tip of Your Tongue," Mike Vitevitch's work on linguistic network modeling in Harvard Magazine.

SEP

16

• David Ekerdt quoted in New York Times blog on the "busy ethic" in retirement.

NOV

05

• Dick Schiefelbusch, the founding director of the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies (Life Span Institute) was interviewed by his daughter Jean, for the Kansas City version of National Public Radio's broadcast oral history project, StoryCorps.

JUN

08

• "On the Tip of Your Tongue," Mike Vitevitch's work on linguistic network modeling in Harvard Magazine.

APR

28

• Liliana Mayo awarded national humanitarian award by Peruvian government along with former U.N. Secretary Pérez de Cuéllar: YouTube

FEB

08

• Dale Walker advises parents on power of talking to their children in Lawrence Journal World

APR

21

• Sean Swindler urges employment of adults with autism: KC Star

FEB

01

• Kansas Public Radio: LSI-developed Good Behavior Game lauded as tool for classroom teachers and societal ills. Features co-developer Muriel Saunders