August

20

• David Ekerdt on resiliency in older age in New York Times blog.

July

16

• David Ekerdt explains "the paradox of keeping" to Wall Street Journal writer in Scanning My Life.

July

12

• Anderson and Colombo find potential for identifying ASD in infants and toddlers through pupil size and salivary protein

June

25

• Paul Cheney inaugural recepient of $1 million endowed Kathleen M. Osborn Chair in Molecular and Integrative Physiology

May

29

• Gerontology Center Director David Ekerdt gives advice in US News Money about planning retirement with spouse

May

10

• Steven Barlow receives Louise Byrd Graduate Educator Award

March

23

• Nancy Brady develops new way to measure the communication of people who communicate with gestures, vocalizations and body movements

April

1

• Merlin Butler finds more evidence of disordered immune systems in children with ASD

January

9

• Rice study shows chidlren exposed to HIV more than twice as likely to have speech impairments

November

14

• Work Group on Community Health and Development help World Health Organization think globally, act locally

November

4

• Beach Center helps shape Defense Department policy on supporting families of children with disabilities

November

1

• Research and Training Center on Independent Living community health projects featured on page one Lawrence Journal-World

November

1

• Research and Training Center on Independent Living community health projects featured on page one Lawrence Journal-World

17

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

October

17

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

October

10

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

October

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

September

22

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

September

7

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

August

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.

April

16

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

April

5

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

April

4

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

April

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