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While we still live in uncertain times, Kansas University has welcomed students back to campus for the 2022–23 school year. Perhaps things are getting back to normal? Or at least as close to normal as we can hope for these days.

As you turn these pages, you will discover a number of wonderful things have happened this past year at the University of Kansas. The articles are from the talented writers at KU News Service and KUAthletics.com.

One of those wonderful happenings was the run for the championship by KU’s men’s basketball team. Read about that amazing, mind-blowing, we’ll-neverforget accomplishment on page 28, and take a look at the non-conference schedule for the 2022–23 basketball season.

But don’t forget about academics and research efforts at KU!

Learn more about a positive psychotherapy clinic staffed by KU students; a research project to help lower toxic family stress; a new book that examines how we can lead like Capt. James T. Kirk; and a School of Pharmacy research study examining preserving memory in mice.

Read about how KU Journalism has partnered with Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence Arts Center, and community members to produce a morning radio show touted as “morning radio for the reservation” and aimed at Indigenous audiences. Another journalism project is aiming to help rural, weekly newspapers.

And we look at a grant that provides better public access to Project on the History of Black Writing and a KU professor’s research and writing on musical culture and hip-hop’s effect on drama.

A favorite of mine is the article on the divination card deck produced by a KU professor and a local artist; the cards offer advice in a beautiful, Kansasoriented deck.

Whether you’re interested in news or sports, looking for a new book, or fascinated about research on the human condition, you’ll find something here. We invite you to take a quick look, then settle in to read those articles that speak to you and your life experiences.

And in these still-upside down times, I hope you are able to keep your minds and hearts open to the world around us. As Ellen Parr said, “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

Be kind and be well, Jean Teller Editor

6 ONLINE HEALTH HELP

KU students open a positive psychotherapy clinic and provide more than 800 hours of counseling services.

8 GOOD MORNING, INDIAN COUNTRY!

KU Journalism partnered on the livestreamed program to provide news for Indigenous communities.

10 TURN OVER THE CARD Prairie oracles offer advice using divination card deck from KU professor.

12 THE FUTURE OF NEWS

KU taking the lead on a project to test a new business model for rural, weekly newspapers.

what’s inside

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BLACK WRITERS ONLINE

Grant will allow KU to provide better public access to Project on the History of Black Writing.

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HIP-HOP INFLUENCE

KU professor writes on the history of the music culture and theorizes on hip-hop’s effect on drama.

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LEAD LIKE CAPTAIN KIRK

‘To Boldly Go’ examines leadership through the lens of science fiction.

24 IMMUNIZE FOR ALZHEIMER’S?

Researchers at KU School of Pharmacy publish results of a study that preserves memory in mice.

26 REDUCE CHILDHOOD ANXIETY

KU research is part of a state program that successfully lowers toxic stress in families.

28 MAKING HISTORY

The KU Jayhawks capture their sixth National Championship.

30 LOOKING AHEAD

Kansas announces the 2022–23 men’s basketball non-conference schedule.

on the cover

On the campus of the University of Kansas, Stauffer-Flint Hall is home to the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Photograph courtesy KU Marketing.

Online Health Help

KU students open a positive psychotherapy clinic and provide more than 800 hours of counseling services.

SHORTLY BEFORE the Positive Psychotherapy Clinic was set to open on the University of Kansas Lawrence campus, the COVID-19 pandemic forced many to work and learn from home. But that temporary delay enabled the clinic to reach far beyond campus and provide hundreds of hours of free counseling services to people across the state who never would have been able to make it to KU before. The clinic now has a new group of graduate students about to provide counseling to Kansans for a number of concerns, all while focusing on what is right in people’s lives.

KU’s counseling psychology program in the School of Education & Human Sciences has long required students to start seeing clients in their second year. Brian Cole, associate professor of educational psychology and director of training in the doctoral program, said there were plans to open a clinic to see clients in the school’s building in Lawrence, about six weeks before the pandemic upended everyone’s lives. Even though services are opening back up, there are no plans to go back. A HIPAA-compliant telehealth format has proven to have a far broader reach than eastern Kansas and enable students and faculty to serve far more people. So far, the clinic has provided more than 800 hours of services to people across Kansas.

Students in the counseling psychology master’s program are required to complete 240 hours of service, which will soon rise to 280. The program helps students to complete the required training without adding another year of schooling.

“I started thinking of this clinic as a way to get more hours for our students while providing a service to the state. We do the traditional therapy, but the way we approach treatment is a bit different,” Cole says. “The idea of positive psychotherapy is there is more to life than being symptom-free. It’s not about living in neutral.”

ARTICLE BY Mike Krings, KU News Service

Traditional psychotherapy focuses on treating symptoms. For example, if a person was experiencing depression with a rating at a negative six — meaning they had significant symptoms but were still able to make it through the average day — the goal might be to get them to a zero, meaning they did not experience symptoms, but they were not thriving or making positive gains either. Positive psychotherapy works with clients to focus on their strengths, what they do well, what is going well in their lives, and use those positive factors to set goals, work toward them, and use strengths to address areas of concern.

Students in the program have provided services for people dealing with pandemicrelated stress as well as traditional concerns like depression, anxiety, relationship issues such as divorce, academic stress, and related areas. And KU’s Positive Psychotherapy Clinic, among the first of its kind in the nation, has proven to be effective: Evaluation of clients has shown that about 70% have made significant progress in their eight-week program, well above the traditional average, Cole says.

Clients who live as far away as Garden City, some 350 miles from Lawrence, check in weekly to gauge progress. At the completion of the program, counselors can make referrals to other therapists

Brian Cole, associate professor of educational psychology

if clients would like them and also plan a one-month follow-up. About 50 graduate students have taken part in the program so far, and an additional 15 will provide assistance as the clinic renews services this month. Anyone interested in taking part can inquire at the clinic’s website (https://AMPP.KU.edu/current-projects/clinic).

Clients must be an adult living in Kansas.

A Leader in Positive Therapy

KU has long been a leader in positive psychology and its application in positive psychotherapy. The late Rick Snyder was a pioneer in the area, and one of his mentees, the late Shane Lopez, were both KU faculty members and highly respected in the field. For his part in launching the Positive Psychotherapy Clinic as well as research and service in the field, Cole recently was awarded the American Psychological Association Society for Counseling Shane J. Lopez Award for Professional Contributions in Positive Psychology.

“It means a lot, especially being named for my mentor,” Cole says of the award. “I learned about hope therapy, counseling psychology, and so much more from Shane here at KU. Things have come full circle in a lot of ways.”

Cole, who leads the clinic with Kristen Hensley, associate professor of the practice and training director of the counseling psychology master’s program, says the clinic is entirely grant-funded. The hope is to work with university and community partners to secure permanent funding in order to meet the need for counseling and mental health services across the state.

The students who are now learning about positive psychology and positive psychotherapy have taken the practice into their professional careers in VA hospitals, college counseling centers, private practices, and other areas. Recent graduates often have training that their supervisors have not received and are able to establish the practice in their places of work.

Meanwhile, on KU’s campus, counseling psychology students will continue to reach out across the state.

“Focusing on what is right with people can be a meaningful way to reduce stress and suffering,” Cole says. “A lot of people don’t have the money, time, or transportation to get to therapy, and we’ve been able to eliminate a lot of barriers and help people we never would have been able to before. There’s a ton of need out there. And while this was all very new two years ago, now it’s commonplace in almost every practice site. One thing the pandemic has shown is telehealth is effective, and it’s here to stay.”

Arts

Good Morning, Indian Country!

KU Journalism partnered on the live-streamed program to provide news for Indigenous communities.

ARTICLE BY Mike Krings, KU News Service PHOTO COURTESY Melissa Greene-Blye

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ROLES of a journalist is to find the news that’s not being covered and share it with the communities that need it. The William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications at the University of Kansas matches its students with community partners to deliver news via “Good Morning Indian Country,” a morning talk show and information program for Indigenous audiences (www.LawrenceArtsCenter.org/event/ good-morning-indian-country).

The show is a partnership among the Lawrence Arts Center, KU, Haskell Indian Nations University, and community members to provide news and information as “morning radio for the reservation,” as the program describes itself. The show contains interviews with Native newsmakers, conversations, weather reports, updates on powwows, and news provided by journalism students that would otherwise likely go uncovered.

“It’s all about staking out Native media in a geography that hasn’t traditionally had media representation. There’s room to grow, and I look forward to helping with that,” says Melissa Greene-Blye, assistant professor of journalism at KU and a partner in “Good Morning Indian Country.” “Our students are realizing there is a lot of news out there

of interest to Native communities that might not get a lot of coverage, and this helps make them aware of that and learn about representation. I always say one of the most important ways we can improve representation is by educating the next generation of journalists, and working on ‘GMIC’ is offering a great opportunity to do just that.”

The idea for “Good Morning Indian Country” was born when Lawrence native and KU alumnus Freddy Gipp realized how isolated people were during the pandemic. He approached Ruben Little Head Sr., a well-known powwow emcee, who was giving Facebook Live broadcasts about Native issues with the idea of a streamed talk and news program. “GMIC” debuted with a six-episode series earlier this year and has already been renewed for an 18-episode series in the fall. Broadcast from the main stage of the Lawrence Arts Center every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., the show is supported by Humanities Kansas, a 2021 Natural and Cultural Grant from the Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Lily O’Shea Becker, a junior journalism major and political science minor at KU, was taking a diversity and media class with Greene-Blye, a member of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, when approached with the idea of being an intern for the show. One of five interns working on the show from KU and Haskell, she said being able to provide news packages for the show while honing her journalistic skills and providing news to an underserved community was a chance she could not pass up.

“I thought it would be good to get experience where I didn’t have it, and I loved my diversity in media class,” Becker says. “In that class I noticed there are not a lot of Native news outlets and important news was going unnoticed. I don’t know if I’ll have the opportunity to be there at the very beginning of a project like I have with ‘Good Morning Indian Country’ again, and there’s always room to learn.”

Thus far this year, the students, part of KU’s KUJH news television broadcast, have provided coverage on stories including STEM programs at Haskell Indian Nations University, Native art spaces, and controversial statements about Indigenous populations made by a state education official. Becker says it has been rewarding to write news, provide video and graphics, and curate content with partners while learning about what works best for the program.

Greene-Blye, whose research examines journalistic representations and negotiations of American Indian identity, says “Good Morning Indian Country” not only is an opportunity to provide local, regional, and national news of importance that is often overlooked but also an opportunity to showcase the vital role of journalism in serving Native communities as well.

Melissa Greene-Blye

Turn Over the Card

HOW DOES A POET, and an academic one at that, reach out to the general public with her concern for the planet and for others’ well-being?

In the case of Megan Kaminski, University of Kansas associate professor of English, the answer comes in the form of Prairie Divination, a 40-card oracle deck and illustrated collection of essays. It’s a distillation of the plant and animal knowledge she has gained from 14 years living in Kansas, paying careful attention to the prairie ecosystem, combined with interdisciplinary research in botany and plant studies and some poetic and artistic inspiration alongside collaborator and former doctoral student, L. Ann Wheeler (https:// LAnnWheeler.com).

“This isn’t a tarot deck,” Kaminski says. “The tarot cards are based on these old stories, and I thought to myself, ‘What if, instead of turning to these archetypes from European culture, from cultures other than our own, what if we turned to the plants and animals right where we live, and we looked at them and said, ‘Hey, you know, as humans, maybe we aren’t doing a very good job of living in a sustainable way in this world. How do you do it?’ That was the premise.”

Prairie oracles offer advice using divination card deck from KU professor.

The cards’ faces feature such characters as Milkweed, Wolf, Fire, and Cup Plant. A 100-page guidebook of essays accompanies the deck, offering personal guidance and affirmations based on the specific wisdom that each plant, animal, and element offers.

Following a pre-order campaign, the deck is now available directly from the project website (www.PrairieDivination.com) and from bookstores and specialty shops. The makers have already received wholesale orders spanning from Kansas to Berlin.

Kaminski says she and Wheeler have worked on the project for the past four years with support from, among others, the Tallgrass Artists Residency at Matfield Green (https://TallgrassArtistResidency.org).

ARTICLE BY Rick Hellman KU News Service PHOTOS COURTESY Megan Kaminski

The KU professor says Prairie Divination sprang from a feeling of isolation that only grew more intense during the initial COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020.

“I don’t want to do the kind of public programming that’s just reading my normal research to people,” Kaminski says. “So I thought, ‘How can I share this research in a way that would be collaborative and interactive, something that would offer transformative possibilities and find a place in people’s everyday lives?’

“I had always wanted to create an accessible public project that would help people feel more connected in their ecosystems, to their local communities, and to the plants and animals with which they share a home. Astrology and tarot have been personal healing practices ... so I proposed a miniversion of this, doing individual readings for people as a form of climate counseling.”

Kaminski mentioned that vision to Wheeler, who was interested in illustrating the concept. The pair made a small sample of cards and tested them at a Haunting Humanities event sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities.

“We had so much fun making them, and then we facilitated some moving and transformative experiences for people at the event — so we just kept going,” Kaminski says.

Kaminski calls Prairie Divination an oracle deck.

“Divination is a way that cultures over time have tried to reckon with uncertainty,” Kaminski says, “and so I thought this was a fitting medium for thinking with our present moment of climate catastrophe and related political instability. There are all these unknowns that, as individuals, it doesn’t feel like we can control or really even understand. I mean, there’s so much important data, but it’s hard to know how to grapple with something so much bigger than our own experiences and lifespan.

“So divination is a tradition that includes things like augury, which is watching birds and how they move through the sky to foretell the future. It’s the sense of connecting to something larger than yourself for guidance on what to do and as a way to imagine new futures.”

Kaminski says her essays and poetry spring from “a real desire to care for others and to reach them on a personal level. Especially during the pandemic isolation, there was the sense of also really needing some care myself. I was thinking about advice I would give, and some of it was advice that I needed to hear. For example, with the Sensitive Briar card, it was that it’s OK to be sensitive.

This is a source of knowledge, and being attuned to your feelings, being attuned to your environment, being attuned to other people’s needs, is a beautiful thing, not something that needs to be hidden.

“A lot of cards were based on concrete moments of wanting to provide care for others, as well as the larger intention to invite people to care for the place we call home by really paying attention.”

Prairie Divination oracle deck card set created by Meg Kaminski, associate professor of English, and L. Ann Wheeler, artist and former doctoral student.

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Stauffer-Flint Hall, home to the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications.

The Future of News

is leading a project to test a new model based on research with publishers and readers to help rural newspapers adapt, survive and thrive.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Teri Finneman, associate professor of journalism at KU, took part in an oral history project to help document the experiences of rural, weekly newspapers (www.Poynter.org/the-essential-workers).

KU taking the lead on a project to test a new business model for rural, weekly newspapers.

ARTICLE BY Mike Krings, KU News Service PHOTOS COURTESY KU Marketing

BUSINESS HAS CHANGED since 1833. One would be hard-pressed to find businesses operating with the same model that was in place when Andrew Jackson was in the White House. But in the case of newspapers, many are still operating with the same business model established when Benjamin Day opened the first penny press nearly 200 years ago. A University of Kansas professor of journalism

“We saw during the pandemic how absolutely critical it was to have a local news source. You couldn’t get community-specific news about COVID anywhere else,” Finneman says. “At the same time, we saw newsrooms closing. It hit me that this is the time to look at a new business model.”

This summer, the project implemented and tested a model that moves away from heavy reliance on advertising and cheap subscriptions. After a year of testing, if the new model is successful in use of memberships, e-newsletters, events, and new content direction, plans call to distribute a new model available for rural weeklies across the country. The research is funded through an innovation grant from KU’s William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications and support from the Southern Newspaper Publisher Association and North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas Newspaper Associations.

Finneman and research partners Pat Ferrucci of the University of Colorado-Boulder and Nick Mathews of the University of Minnesota conducted surveys with 132 publishers from the Great Plains states, primarily from newspapers in communities with populations of 3,000 or fewer. The publishers were presented with 15 potential revenue streams and asked which they would be willing to try. Respondents said they were most receptive to the traditional threads of advertising, subscriptions,

legal notices. The least popular options

More than 400 readers in rural areas of these states were given a similar survey, asking in what ways they would consider supporting their local newspapers. Memberships, events, and e-newsletters were among the most popular responses.

“We found there’s a tremendous disconnect between what readers say they are willing to support and what publishers are willing to consider,” Finneman says. “This business model we’re testing is all about being proactive if the day comes when newspapers lose another revenue source in legal notices, having a safety net in place and evolving.”

Forty percent of readers also indicated they would be very likely or likely to donate, in addition to subscription costs, to their local newspaper. Finneman says the concept does have precedent in the United States, as both public television and radio receive government support and private support through donations.

In terms of the type of content they wanted to see, readers indicated they were most interested in reading about local events, feature stories, and obituaries. They were least interested in reading opinion pages, which Finneman says is understandable in the age of social media, where opinion is available everywhere.

“People just want to read good news. We’ve heard that for years, but especially during the pandemic, that

“We saw during the pandemic how absolutely critical it was to have a local news source. You couldn’t get community-specific news about COVID anywhere else. At the same time, we saw newsrooms closing. It hit me that this is the time to look at a new business model.”

–Teri Finneman

point was driven home,” Finneman says. “We heard time and time again that people just want to read some good news and about things to do in their community.”

The research team is now in the process of implementing the new business model with Kansas Publishing Ventures, which owns and operates Harvey County Now in Newton and the Hillsboro Free Press in Hillsboro.

Publisher Joey Young and the researchers are determining how the new model will be implemented and speaking with community members in the papers’ readership area, as well as with press groups and communities throughout the Great Plains states. The model will include memberships in which readers can receive tiered benefits. The model will also work to engage community members, especially young residents, and focus on preferred reader content.

In focus groups in which researchers presented publishers with results of reader surveys and discussed potential new approaches, participants indicated a reluctance to accepting donations or government support. While many countries include government support for media, the model for this study will begin with a focus on memberships, in which readers can offer additional support.

“There was a lot of caution about trying something new, and a lot of concern about a lack of time, as opposed

to the potential to make more money and add resources to address a lack of time, while continuing to serve their communities,” Finneman says, adding that, if even 25 or 30% of readers elected to pay more through memberships, the revenue increase could be significant.

As the new model is tested, the research team and local publisher will conduct both publicity and educational outreach efforts to help inform local readers of the changes, how they work, the benefits, reasons behind the move, and more. While the project is underway, the research team will also produce an oral history of the project, its implementation, and potential to transform the industry that will be housed at the Kansas Historical Society.

Finneman, who with KU journalism students publishes the Eudora Times, says the project is intended to revive community journalism’s business model and also to prevent news deserts from spreading. (For more on the Eudora Times project, go to http://News.KU.edu/2019/04/10/journalism-classprovides-coverage-community-without-newspaper-fililng-newsdesert). The project is also intended to help boost connections between community newspapers and their readers. In one state, 63% of respondents said they did not know anyone at their local newspaper office but also indicated they would be twice as likely to give financial support to their local paper if they did know a journalist, editor, or publisher.

Fresh 4 Le$$

PHOTOGRAPH Rick Hellman/KU News Service

Drew Davidson (left) and Maryemma Graham at the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center in Nichols Hall.

Black Writers Online

Grant will allow KU to provide better public access to Project on the History of Black Writing.

ARTICLE BY Rick Hellman, KU News Service

WHEN TONI MORRISON’S Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Beloved” came out in 1987, Maryemma Graham’s community book group in Oxford, Mississippi, started reading it but found its prose difficult to understand and enjoy.

“I went back and said, ‘What book can I give them that makes more sense than Morrison?’ Her linguistic and narrative patterns can be hard for the average reader,” says Graham, a University Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Kansas and founder of its Project on the History of Black Writing (HBW; https:// HBW.KU.edu). “I was writing people asking, ‘Is there a book similar to Morrison’s, but doesn’t really read like Morrison?’ We had lots of dialogues about it, and I did a survey. Now, a year later, we read Morrison because there was a lot of hoopla about her, and they wanted to be in the flow. But it took a while to read books that had some of the same themes to prepare them to read Morrison.

“That’s just one story, but what it said to me was I had to be the conduit for discussions of what to read. We’re now creating machine-learning capacity to deliver that information — to say, ‘Here are more books like that, that do some of those kinds of things, that you might want to read.’”

A “Novel-Generator Machine,” a computer tool that will do exactly that, is one of four web-based “portals” proposed by Graham and funded by a newly announced $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The three-year grant will result in the future BLNet. KU.edu (for Black Literature Network), a multimedia web platform that will be the access point for all users.

Graham’s collaborators on the grant are Drew Davidson, assistant professor in KU’s Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and a member of its Information & Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC); KU alumnus Kenton Rambsy, now assistant professor of English at the University of Texas-Arlington; and Kenton Rambsy’s brother, Howard Rambsy II, a professor of literature at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. KU Libraries are also providing support for the project.

It’s the latest extension of Graham’s HBW project, which she brought with her from the University of Mississippi to Northeastern University and then to KU in 1999. The first stage was to identify and save physical copies of books by Black writers from destruction. The next was to digitize them. And now the organizers are creating tools that will allow both academic researchers and the general public to look at the entire corpus of Black fiction, which HBW has been collecting for nearly 40 years, by using keywords, themes, data visualizations, and in other ways that Davidson termed “metadata.”

To Graham, it’s a way to keep Black writers from continually falling into obscurity and even further behind in the age of Big Data.

“We have been doing this kind of work in Black fiction for a long time,” Graham says, “and a lot of people don’t have what we have. We only know a very small percentage of the Black fiction that exists. Most works, including some of the most influential ones — often innovative and trendsetting — remain untaught and underread for reasons that we know too well.

“Since we’ve been at KU, our growth has depended upon amazing students whose introduction to interactive technologies pushed HBW forward. This is the first opportunity we have had to go back to some of those former students, now scholars in their own right, and say, ‘We can finally finish what we started.’”

Another grant from the Mellon Foundation to HBW last year seeks to help HBW incorporate its texts into the HathiTrust Digital Library, a major online database for literary academics, but one that Graham notes charges a substantial annual membership fee. (For information on last year’s grant: https://News.KU.edu/2020/11/20/bringingblack-authors-work-out-digital-shadows.) The new grant will create a website open to all, even as it honors copyright holders. And the grant-funded work will help HBW and the English department train scholars to work in the new and growing field of digital humanities, Graham says.

“We’ve been working on this partnership that we have with Drew and ITTC for a while,” Graham says. “We keep saying, ‘Why do we have to go someplace

else to store our stuff? Why can’t we build what we need here?’ In fact, if KU researchers actively promote interdisciplinarity, then let’s put that to the test.”

“This project is all about taking these digital assets and not just making them easier to find,” Davidson says, “but also surfacing interesting aspects of the work. Just dumping a list of titles on the screen isn’t really going to cut it, in terms of access. So what we need to find is where there are interesting details within the books about the authors, and the networks that connect Black writers over time. And this is another case where we’re using a lot of different levels of expertise to try and get at this question. There’s a part of this grant called the Data Rangers, one of Kenton Rambsy’s inventions.”

Davidson says teams of students will be searching through the texts and manually annotating important details.

“So it’s an educational opportunity for them,” Davidson says. “We see this project as being not just a service to the users who are looking for the data, but also a service to our institutions. Students will help populate the dataset. We’ll use students to help program the site itself, and we’re going to use students to test the thing, as well.”

“The Data Rangers fills a notable void by creating a community where scholars can hone their tech

skills while also being able to focus on Black literature exclusively,” Kenton Rambsy says.

Graham says the prospect of the grant-funded work can help KU recruit students, especially at the graduate level, something she said that HBW has been pretty good at doing.

“We see this as innovative computer science as well as serving the digital humanities,” Davidson says. “We are going to develop new machine-learning algorithms, and we don’t know what patterns we’ll find yet. We think that we will be able to better surface the answer to the question of ‘What speaks to you in this literature?’”

Graham says HBW continues to value its partnerships as a venue for further public outreach. Working with Howard Rambsy II and SIUE’s IRIS Center (https://IRIS.SIUE.edu), the grant will fund production of a series of podcasts titled “Remarkable Receptions,” audio narratives concentrating on popular and critical responses to prominent African American writers.

Davidson sums up the effort with a comparison to some of today’s digital heavyweights.

“We want to make personalized recommendations — something like a really focused Amazon.com for Black literature — but also provide new ways to engage with the work, something like The Pudding’s visual essays,” he says.

Hip-Hop Influence

KU professor writes on the history of the music culture and theorizes on hip-hop’s effect on drama.

ARTICLE BY Rick Hellman KU News Service

A NEW BOOK by a University of Kansas professor is the first to offer both a history of hip-hop’s effect on the theatrical stage and to theorize the influence of hip-hop culture on drama worldwide.

“Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-hop Theater and Performance” (University of Michigan Press; www.Fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/rb68xf01s) by Nicole Hodges Persley has drawn pre-publication raves from scholars in the field for its rigorous research and groundbreaking analysis.

“In addition to her work as artistic director of the KC Melting Pot Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri (https://KCMeltingPot-theatre.square.site), the author is an associate professor of American studies and of African & African American studies at the University of Kansas. She writes as a lifelong fan of hip-hop culture and as a keen critic of how it has been incorporated into mainstream theater and particularly into Broadway-style musicals.

Persley examines the social ramifications of cultural borrowing (i.e., sampling) and personal adaptation (remixing) of hip-hop culture by non-Black and nonAfrican American Black artists. Persley interviewed and/or corresponded with several of the book’s subjects, including actor-playwrights Danny Hoch (“Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop”) and Sarah Jones (“Bridge & Tunnel”) and South Korean conceptual artist Nikki S. Lee.

The chapter about hip-hop dance highlights African American choreographer Rennie Harris’ year 2000 version

courtesy Nicole Hodges Persley

of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” titled “Rome & Jewels,” and it shows the form’s global influence with its analysis of Black British performance artist and dancer Jonzi D’s 2006 “TAG: Just Writing My Name.”

Persley’s take on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster “Hamilton” is a complex analysis that balances praise for the actor-playwright with a critique framed around the concept of “ghosting.”

Given Miranda’s requirement that actors of color play white “founding father” roles in the musical, “There is a kind of ghosting of Black, Latinx, and Asian American experiences that happens,” Persley says. “You see the bodies, but the bodies are not telling the stories of the people that are inhabiting them. That can be very triggering sometimes for audiences who experience systemic racism.”

In the end, Persley wrote, “Hip-hop has to be sampled responsibly. Remixing social conditions of oppression with those of white privilege can result in the further oppression of African American people.”

On the other hand, she wrote, done with sensitivity, “Sampling and remixing are empathetic tools that can help us do the work of remembering the shared trauma that people of color have experienced in the United States.”

With these and other insights, the author says, “I hope this book engenders truthful dialogue about cultural borrowing, aesthetic mining and systemic racism that I think we need to have.”

Nicole

Persley

Steve Leonard

Lead Like Captain Kirk

“It’s the set piece for the conflict between intelligence and experience,” he says of the climactic clash found in “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.” “Intelligence without experience is wonderful, but it’s the experience that wins those fights, and that plays out with Kirk and Khan.”

Another of his chapters focuses on the 1968 movie “Planet of the Apes.”

“I was just going to write about how it was a contemplation of that late ’60s era. But it instead turned into a class society reflection of how screenwriter Rod Serling weaved his own personal life experiences into the film’s script while growing up dealing with anti-Semitism,” he says.

The book boasts contributors who represent some of the top writers in the genre. Best-selling author Max Brooks (“World War Z”) composes “Romulans and Remans,” a futuristic examination of desegregation that uses the Romulan War as a metaphor for the Tuskegee Airmen returning home.

ARTICLE BY Jon Niccum, KU News Service

“TO BOLDLY GO …” That phrase from Capt. James T. Kirk’s opening monologue in the original “Star Trek” series still endures more than 55 years since it first aired. Now it’s also the title of a new book that examines leadership through the lens of science fiction.

“Everybody recognizes those three words,” says Steven Leonard, a retired senior U.S. Army strategist and program director in organizational leadership at the University of Kansas.

“If you’re going to lead, you boldly go. Not only is it the impetus behind this book, it’s also my personal philosophy of leadership in general that you have to be willing to embrace risk to create opportunities for yourself.”

Leonard is co-editor of “To Boldly Go: Leadership, Strategy, and Conflict in the 21st Century and Beyond.” His compendium recruits 30 writers — strategy experts, senior policy advisers, professional educators, experienced storytellers, and groundlevel military commanders — to produce essays exploring this topic. It’s published by Casemate. (The book is available on Amazon: www.Amazon.com/Boldly-Go-Leadership-StrategyConflict/dp/1636240623.)

“Captain Kirk was the prototypical leader I grew up with who typifies the idea of ‘there’s your ship captain,’” says Leonard, a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point. “He’s bold, he’s audacious, he always leads from the front and always leads by intuition.”

The retired colonel wanted to assemble something that addressed this level of leadership but had broader appeal than simply a project aimed at either “Star Wars” aficionados or business management enthusiasts. Here, you find subjects that can be appreciated by readers of both Isaac Asimov and Peter Drucker.

Leonard himself writes three of the 35 chapters, including one partnered with co-editor Jonathan Klug that dissects the Battle of the Mutara Nebula.

Leonard also cites the chapter “Space Battleship Yamato and the Burden of Command” by August Cole (“Ghost Fleet”) as an example of a more obscure sci-fi property that generates provocative material.

“August has a beautifully written chapter dealing with what happens when you’re tasked with an impossible mission, you have the improbable crew, and things are stacked against you. How do you bring all that together to find success?” he says.

Craig and Steve Whiteside tap into the cultural zeitgeist with a chapter concerning Stephen King’s “The Stand.”

“It looks at the emergence of a pandemic, which couldn’t be more timely,” Leonard says. “There was no intent to produce a piece on how to lead through COVID-19 because we started this project pre-pandemic. But it becomes a perfect chapter that’s particularly relevant now as the delta variant gains a foothold.”

Leonard isn’t the only KU contributor. Kelsey Cipolla, a communications coordinator in the School of Business, gives insight into the challenges faced by women in positions of power by analyzing the divergent viewpoints of Vice Admiral Holdo and Poe Dameron from “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.”

Now in his seventh year at KU, Leonard has provided chapters to the books “Strategy Strikes Back: How ‘Star Wars’ Explains Modern Military Conflict” (Potomac Books, 2018) and “Winning Westeros: How ‘Game of Thrones’ Explains Modern Military Conflict” (Potomac Books, 2019). He is the co-editor of “Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War” (Middle West Press, 2019). He’s also the creative force behind the subversive web comic “Doctrine Man!!” and its four collected volumes.

“‘To Boldly Go’ wraps up things that I had worked on in earlier anthologies. We had more science fiction to draw from, not just ‘Star Wars’ or ‘Game of Thrones.’ We could open the aperture wide and then bring in more people with a more diverse background for a better, fuller perspective,” he says.

As Major Gen. Mick Ryan of the Australian Army describes in the book’s foreword, “science fiction provides a telescope to the future, a mechanism to think about future challenges.”

Leonard says, “There are a series of messages here that allow us to use science fiction in a way to talk about really important, timely topics. We see the role of leadership in times of crisis — and this is a time of crisis.”

‘To Boldly Go’ examines leadership through the lens of science fiction.

Immunize for Alzheimer’s?

Researchers at KU School of Pharmacy publish results of a study that preserves memory in mice.

ARTICLE BY Brendan M. Lynch KU News Service

DURING EXPERIMENTS in animal models, researchers at the University of Kansas have discovered a possible new approach to immunization against Alzheimer’s disease.

Their method uses a recombinant methionine (Met)rich protein derived from corn that was then oxidized in vitro to produce the antigen: methionine sulfoxide (MetO)-rich protein. This antigen, when injected into the body, goads the immune system into producing antibodies against the MetO component of beta-amyloid, a protein that is toxic to brain cells and seen as a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The findings have been just published in the peer-reviewed open-access journal Antioxidants (www.MDPI.com/2076-3921/11/4/775).

“As we age, we have more oxidative stress, and then betaamyloid and other proteins accumulate and become oxidized and aggregated — these proteins are resistant to degradation or removal,” says lead researcher Jackob Moskovitz, associate professor of pharmacology & toxicology at the KU School of Pharmacy. “In a previous 2011 published study, I injected mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease with a similar methionine sulfoxide-rich protein and showed about 30% reduction of amyloid plaque burden in the hippocampus, the main region where damage from Alzheimer’s disease occurs.”

The MetO-rich protein used by Moskovitz for the vaccination of AD-model mice is able to prompt the immune system to produce antibodies against MetO-containing proteins, including MetO-harboring beta-amyloid. The introduction of the corn-based MetO-rich protein (antigen) fosters the body’s immune system to produce and deploy the antibodies against MetO to previously tolerated MetOcontaining proteins (including MetO-beta-amyloid), and ultimately reduce the levels of toxic forms of beta-amyloid and other possible proteins in brain.

In the new follow-up study, Moskovitz and his co-authors injected the MetO-rich protein into 4-month-old AD-model mice that were genetically modified to develop the familial form of Alzheimer’s disease. Subsequent testing showed that this approach provoked the mice’s immune systems into producing antibodies that could alleviate the presence of AD phenotypes at an older age (10-month-old mice).

“This treatment induced the production of anti-MetO antibody in blood-plasma that exhibits a significant titer up to at least 10 months of age,” according to the authors.

Moskovitz’s KU co-authors on the antioxidants study are Adam Smith, assistant professor of pharmacology & toxicology; Kyle Gossman and Benjamin Dykstra, graduate students in Smith’s lab; and Philip Gao, director of the Protein Production Group at the Del Shankel Structural Biology Center (https://PPG.KU.edu).

In a series of tests, the KU researchers assessed the memory of injected mice against similar mice that didn’t receive the corn-based methionine sulfoxide.

“We measured short-term memory capability through a ‘Y’ maze, and that’s very important in Alzheimer’s disease — because when people get Alzheimer’s, their short-term memory is going away, while the old memories are still there,” Moskovitz says. “You put a mouse in a maze shaped like a ‘Y’ so they can go either the left or right arm. But then you introduce a third arm in the middle and if they recognize the third arm as new, they’ll spend more time exploring that new arm because they have curiosity. If they don’t even notice there’s a third arm — because they forget it the minute after they saw it — they will spend more time in right or left.”

According to Moskovitz, there was a roughly 50% improvement in the memory of mice injected with the methionine sulfoxide (MetO)-rich protein versus the control.

In another experiment, mice were tasked with locating a platform in a water maze.

“We gave them six days to learn, and even the ones with Alzheimer’s eventually learn the location of the platform — but we found after the second day there was a big difference, the injected mice with the antigen learn much faster than the nonimmunized mice,” Moskovitz says. “Then we remove the platform to see if they remember where the platform was just by memory, not by looking. And again, we saw a big difference. The antigenimmunized mice remember and spend more time in the vicinity of the platform they were trained on compared to the nonimmunized control mice.”

In addition to short-term memory improvement, the study showed the antigen-injected mice exhibited better long memory capabilities, reduced beta-amyloid levels in both blood-plasma and the brain, as well as “reduced beta-amyloid burden and MetO accumulations in astrocytes in hippocampal and cortical regions; reduced levels of activated microglia; and elevated antioxidant capabilities (through enhanced nuclear localization of the transcription factor Nrf2) in the same brain regions.”

The researchers found the data collected in the study likely are translational, suggesting active immunization “could give a possibility of delaying or preventing AD onset.”

Moskovitz says such an immunization could be given to people as the risk of Alzheimer’s disease increases later in life, “around the time people are told to go get a colonoscopy for the first time in their 50s or 60s. Further booster shots could maintain immunization, a process which people are so familiar with from the COVID vaccines.”

An active immunization would represent an improvement over current passive immunization regimes because the methionine sulfoxide antigen prods the immune system into producing its own antibodies. In

Researchers from the University of Kansas found data collected in an animal model likely are translational, suggesting active immunization could give a possibility of delaying or preventing the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. In a series of tests, KU researchers assessed the memory of injected mice against similar mice that didn’t receive the corn-based methionine sulfoxide.

passive immunization, antibodies are directly injected into the body but can have severe toxic side effects (such as brain encephalitis) as well as being prone to rejection by the immune system as non-self-antibodies over time.

Moskovitz says the next steps in this line of research would be to conduct pre-clinical and clinical trials in humans in conjunction with the sponsorship of interested pharmaceutical companies.

Reduce Childhood Anxiety

KU research is part of a state program that successfully lowers toxic stress in families.

“As a whole, we found this initiative resulted in improvements in four main areas: the child, the parent/caregiver, the family or household, and service systems and settings,” says Amy Mendenhall, professor of social welfare at KU and principal investigator of the project’s evaluation. “We found it had a positive result at all four levels, including healthier kids, more confident parents, and better services from agencies.”

ARTICLE BY Mike Krings KU News Service

DOCTORS REGULARLY ASK ADULTS about stress as part of an overall assessment of their health. But stress in infants and toddlers is not as commonly considered, even though high levels can cause lifelong problems. Research from the University of Kansas has shown that a program aimed at reducing toxic stress in infants is effective, not only in helping children, but in aiding parents, communities, and the early childhood service system.

KU researchers have been part of the Kansas ABC Early Childhood Initiative, an effort to implement an intervention called Attachment and Bio-behavioral Catchup, or ABC, since 2018. The intervention is an evidence-based, 10-week program designed to reduce stress levels in infants that can lead to developmental, health, and behavior problems. Evaluation showed that while the intervention helped improve the well-being of young children, it also benefited parents and other family members.

The initiative trained early childhood service providers at five agencies serving 36 counties in Kansas to implement ABC in 10-week sessions (for more: http://News.KU.edu/2018/02/08/ku-researcherspart-project-combat-stress-hormone-children-adversefamily-situations). The intervention utilizes play-based strategies to help parents develop secure attachments with their children through nurturance and positive regard. Sessions are videotaped and provided to parents to highlight strengths and areas for growth and document progress made. By building stronger bonds between parents and children, the goal is to reduce levels of cortisol, known as the stress hormone, in children. The hormone, present in all people, is generally at its highest in the morning and decreases throughout the day. But in children who have experienced high levels of stress, levels stay high, as though they are on alert for something negative to happen regularly, which can lead to long-term problems in memory and learning, depression, anxiety, lower immune function, and other health concerns.

Evaluation of the more than 400 families who took part in the initiative showed that cortisol levels in the children normalized over the course of the intervention, though not at a statistically significant level. However, parents taking part reported improvements in their caregiver knowledge and higher confidence in their parenting ability, which can help reduce situations that cause stress in their children, Mendenhall says. Additionally, benefits were shown at the household level, with families showing significant improvements in household environment, family interactions, safety, social life, self-sufficiency, and health.

“Through this evaluation, we’ve also learned a lot about implementation of the intervention, which is as important as the outcomes. You have to understand it to know why an intervention is successful or not,” she says.

The onset of the pandemic forced part of the implementation to take place virtually. Preliminary evaluation results suggest the effects are as positive in virtual settings as in-person. That is especially valuable in rural settings, Mendenhall says. Additionally, about half of the population that received services did so

in Spanish, and positive outcomes held across both language groups, indicating ABC is adaptable. Results also showed that the intervention can be successfully implemented in varying geographic areas, including urban and rural settings, as well as in different types of agencies, such as mental health centers and child development centers.

The ABC intervention’s success in Phase 1 showed that child well-being and functioning can be improved while also benefiting parents by boosting their skills, strengthening households, and expanding the capacity of early childhood services to help ensure healthy families, Mendenhall says. Ongoing research will determine if those same benefits hold for toddlers and how the program could be improved or delivered in expanded settings.

Phase 2 of the initiative, which began last year and will continue through 2023, continues delivery and evaluation of ABC’s effectiveness expanding to toddlers but with a subset of the original agencies.

“One of the things we heard from parents during Phase 1 was that the intervention reduced parents’ stress and allowed them to advocate for their children more,” Mendenhall says. “We weren’t able to quantify that in the data in the first phase, but we’ve added measures to see if that result holds up in Phase 2.

“Phase 2 is about expanding service capacity and further exploring the impact of the intervention on caregiver outcomes and school readiness,” she says. “We’re trying to get more parent coaches trained and sustain the program by helping agencies be able to bill insurance, secure funding, and to increase awareness and education

about the importance of early childhood services. It’s historically been an area that’s underfunded. Effective services can really make a difference in the life trajectory of young people.”

Making History

The KU Jayhawks capture their sixth National Championship.

ARTICLE BY KUAthletics.com PHOTOS BY Nick Krug courtesy Lawrence Journal-World

NEW ORLEANS – The Kansas Jayhawks captured their sixth national championship in school history April 4 at the Caesars Superdome, topping North Carolina 72–69 in the National Championship game.

The Jayhawks erased a 15-point halftime deficit to capture their second national championship under Coach Bill Self, outscoring the Tar Heels 47–29 in the second half. The win marked the program’s third national championship since 1988. Kansas shot 58% from the floor in the second half, hitting 19 of 33 shots from the floor, while North Carolina went 11-for-40 from the floor in the second, shooting 28%.

Kansas trailed by 16 at one point in the first half. The 16-point deficit is the largest ever overcome in a championship game in NCAA history.

Five Jayhawks scored in double figures for Kansas in the win, led by 15 points apiece from Jalen Wilson and David McCormack. McCormack had 10 rebounds as well to post a double-double, while Christian Braun also had a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds. Remy Martin finished with 14 points, while All-American Ochai Agbaji finished with 12.

Agbaji was named the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Tournament, adding to his already long list of accolades. McCormack was named to the All-NCAA Tournament Team, joining Agbaji.

Trailing 40–25 at halftime, the Jayhawks wasted no time starting the comeback, coming out of the locker room hot. Trailing 45–33 with 16:10 to play, Braun scored on a layup to cut it to 10. Wilson then converted an and-one to cut it seven at 45–38. That was the closest the Jayhawks had been since trailing 29–22 with more than four minutes to play in the first half.

After an Agbaji free throw made it six, Dajuan Harris Jr. hit a basket to get it to four. Trailing 50–47 with just more than 11 minutes left, Agbaji hit an and-one to knot the game at 50 for the first tie since it was 22–22.

Kansas then scored the next six points to grab a six-point lead at 56–50. North Carolina came right back, however, to tie it back up at 57 with 8:16 to play. The Jayhawks would lead from there until North Carolina tied it again at 65 with just more than three minutes to play. But Martin hit another 3-pointer to put Kansas up again.

After back-to-back buckets put North Carolina back up one, McCormack went to work and scored in the paint to put the Jayhawks up 70–69 with 1:21 to play. He then scored again with 22 seconds left to make the score 72–69 and close out the national championship win for the Jayhawks.

Looking Ahead

Kansas announces the 2022–23 men’s basketball non-conference schedule.

Kansas will return home to host Southern Utah on Friday, Nov. 18, before heading to the Bahamas for the Battle 4 Atlantis, Nov. 23–25. The event’s field includes future Big 12-member BYU, Butler, Dayton, N.C. State, USC, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.

2022-23 Kansas Men’s Basketball Non-conference Schedule

Wednesday, Nov. 2 PITTSBURG STATE (exhibition)

Monday, Nov. 7 OMAHA

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NATIONALLY RANKED non-conference schedules are common for Kansas men’s basketball, and the 2022–23 slate will be no different.

The Jayhawks have led the country in strength of schedule in two of the last four seasons and five times overall during coach Bill Self’s 19 campaigns at Kansas. Additionally, KU has placed in the top 10 in strength of schedule 12 times under Self, including third following KU’s 2022 NCAA National Championship season.

The non-conference schedule is highlighted by games in Allen Fieldhouse against Indiana, Seton Hall, and Harvard as well as Southern Utah and Texas Southern. Kansas leads the NCAA Division I all-time wins list at 2,357, while Indiana is 10th at 1,890. The Seton Hall contest is part of the Big 12/BIG EAST Battle, and KU defeated Texas Southern in the opening round of the 2022 NCAA Tournament en route to the national title.

“Once again we have a non-conference schedule that should prepare us for what will be another strong Big 12 schedule,” KU head coach Bill Self says. “This is a very attractive home schedule with games against Indiana and Seton Hall. Also mixed in is Duke in the Champions Classic in Indianapolis and road games at Missouri and at Kentucky. The Battle 4 Atlantis is a stacked field that includes USC, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. Those, along with the Big 12, makes this a very competitive schedule and, if we do well, it will enhance our chances for another high NCAA Tournament seed.”

Kansas will host three games prior to the Champions Classic, including an exhibition contest against Pittsburg State on Wednesday, Nov. 2. Pitt State’s first-year head coach is former KU great Jeff Boschee. KU will then host Omaha on Monday, Nov. 7, and North Dakota State on Thursday, Nov. 10, before playing Duke in the Champions Classic, Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Indianapolis. KU is 6–5 in the Champions Classic.

KU will then host Texas Southern on Nov. 28 and Seton Hall on Dec. 1 in the Big 12/BIG EAST Battle. Next, Kansas will travel to HyVee Border Showdown foe Missouri on Dec. 10. Last year, Kansas defeated Missouri, 102–65, in Allen Fieldhouse in the first meeting between the two schools since 2012.

Kansas will then host Harvard on Dec. 22 and the 2022–23 Big 12 league schedule will begin Dec. 31. On Saturday, Jan. 28, Kansas will play at Kentucky in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge. Last year, KU passed UK in becoming the winningest program in NCAA Division I history, currently at 2,357 all-time wins. Kentucky is at 2,353.

Kansas is coming off a 34–6 season in which it won its sixth national title, fourth in the NCAA history. KU tied Baylor for first in the Big 12 regular season with a 14–4 record. It was KU’s NCAArecord 63rd conference regular-season title and 20th in the 26-year history of the Big 12. KU then won the Big 12 Tournament, advanced to its NCAA-record 32ndconsecutive NCAA Tournament, a streak that started in 1990, and its 16th Final Four. The Jayhawks won their last 11 games of the season en route to the NCAA title.

Thursday, Nov. 10 NORTH DAKOTA STATE

Tuesday, Nov. 15 vs. Duke (Champions Classic, Indianapolis, Ind.)

Friday, Nov. 18 SOUTHERN UTAH

Wednesday, Nov. 23 vs. TBD (Battle 4 Atlantis, Paradise Island, The Bahamas)

Thursday, Nov. 24 vs. TBD (Battle 4 Atlantis, Paradise Island, The Bahamas)

Friday, Nov. 25 vs. TBD (Battle 4 Atlantis, Paradise Island, The Bahamas)

Monday, Nov. 28 TEXAS SOUTHERN

Thursday, Dec. 1 SETON HALL (Big 12/BIG EAST Battle)

Saturday, Dec. 10 at Missouri

Saturday, Dec. 17 INDIANA Thursday, Dec. 22 HARVARD

Saturday, Dec. 31 Big 12 play begins

Saturday, Jan. 28 at Kentucky (SEC/Big 12 Challenge)

March 8-11 Big 12 Championship (T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, Mo.)

Home games in ALL CAPS Battle 4 Atlantis field – Kansas, BYU, Butler, Dayton, N.C. State, USC, Tennessee, and Wisconsin

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