Some good news from Kansas - for a change

[proud2BlibKansan]

Kansas biologists get $1.6 million for evolution study



Associated Press





LAWRENCE, Kan. - Evolutionary biologists at the University of Kansas have been awarded a $1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to do research on marine animals.



The five-year grant will be used to trace the evolution of cnidarian marine animals for the foundation's "Assembling the Tree of Life" project, the university announced Wednesday. The cnidarian family includes jellyfish, sea anemones and corals.



Professors Paulyn Cartwright and Daphne Fautin and research associate Allen Collins, all with the university's Natural History Museum, will lead the project, which includes research institutions from several states.



"The NSF gives funding to three to six groups a year for 'Tree of Life' projects, so I am honored our research proposal for cnidarians was selected," Cartwright said in a news release from the university.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/13124268.htm

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. That's good to hear!

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. KU is an awesome school with a great reputation

and KState is one of the best veterinary schools in the country. So see, not all Kansans are ignorant creationist believing fundies.

This issue is starting to wake folks up. Here is something happening in KC - on the Missouri side:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=162&topic_id=4475&mesg_id=4475

[KansDem]

7. "KU is an awesome school with a great reputation"

That's why the university cannot be associated with the fundie wackjobs who push ID as "science." KU pulls students from all over the US and the world, it cannot afford to alienate these students by abandoning true scientific principles in favor of some west Kansas farmers' warped idea of ID. It needs bright, motivated students to maintain its "great reputation" (and yes, for the tuition, too).

I'm a KU graduate: '87 and '96. Let me say this, the number of foreign students I worked with in '96 was much greater than in '87. It would behoove KU to continue working on its great reputation to continue to draw these students. And I never once heard from a foreign student, or an American student for that matter, that they were attracted to KU because of its adherence to convoluted right-wing fundie mysticism.

To the fundies, I say: "The Enlightenment" is here to stay. Get used to it!

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Hey I am KU class of 96 also

ROCK CHALK!! :)

[triguy46]

11. KUMC 1977, go hawks... n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. My mom just got out of KUMC

great hospital. :hi:

[KansDem]

17. Really! Did we walk down the Hill together?

I don't remember seeing you...

Actually, I graduated winter of '96 and chose not to participate in graduation exercises, much to the dismay of the Dean of Graduate Studies. My name was on the program (I was supposed to be hooded), but I wasn't there...

on edit: I did walk down the Hill in '87

[AndyTiedye]

14. The Religous Wrong Want to Return us to the Dark Ages

To the fundies, I say: "The Enlightenment" is here to stay. Get used to it!

They are still trying to turn back the clock.

Did you know that there is an effort to stop people from calling
the Dark Ages the Dark Ages? They are trying to "rehabilitate" the
image of that dismal period in history.

[acmejack]

3. And they are real scientists too

[DancingBear]

4. Lemme guess

Once the school board finds out the study is on marine animals, are they going to ask that army, navy and air force animals be included too?


(sorry - couldn't resist)

:hi:

[melody]

5. Only if they love Jesus with all their hearts

:puke:

[BlueJazz]

6. AAAAAHHHHH!!! .....LOL!

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Nah they are too busy looking into vouchers and

charter schools. That is their REAL agenda.

Half of them are up for re-election next year. If we start now, we may get that conservative majority OFF the state board.

[Dr. Death]

8. Universities are the guardians of knowledge

And even in red states we have fine islands of learning that resist society's whims of the moment in favor of long-term truth.

[Norquist Nemesis]

13. Haven't you heard?

Universities are "Bastions of Liberal Indoctrination"! RUN!!!

Good for them! :thumbsup:

[coda]

15. Actually, a conservative guide gave KU high marks too

KU gets high marks from conservatives
By Sophia Maines

Saturday, November 5, 2005


Despite its rap for being an island of blue in a sea of heartland red, Kansas University is a place where conservative students not only survive, but thrive, according to a conservative college guide book.

“I don’t think it’s that surprising,” Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway said. “KU is a place where there’s room for a wide variety of political and social views.”

According to “Choosing the Right College 2006: The Whole Truth about America’s Top Schools,” a guide book for conservatives, Kansas University offers one of the best state-school educations in the nation.

The guide is published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. ISI’s chairman is Edwin Feulner, whom President Ronald Reagan once called “a leader of the conservative movement,” according to ISI’s Web site.

<snip>

Hemenway said the recognition may partly be due to the fact that KU has maintained its Western Civilization requirements — a move that conservatives find praiseworthy.



http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/nov/05/ku_gets_high_marks_conservatives/

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. So it's yes on Western Civ but no on Evolution?

It is getting hard to keep track of which subjects they approve of. :eyes: