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KU CREES announces 2024 Laird Essay Contest winner
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas undergraduate student’s paper about supply chain sanctions against Russia is the winner of the 2024 Roy D.
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Former NATO commander, leading experts to discuss the Russo-Ukrainian War’s global effects at KU Security Conference
LAWRENCE —Philip Breedlove, a retired U.S.
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KU center to bring festival celebrating Eastern European and Eurasian culture to downtown Lawrence
LAWRENCE — The Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the University of Kansas will have its annual Spring Festival from 4 to 7 p.m. March 3.
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KU welcomes Ukrainian food anthropologist, historian as visiting professor
LAWRENCE — An anthropologist and historian from Lviv, Ukraine, with expertise in the cultural exchange and culinary traditions of Eastern Europe has joined the University of Kansas for the 2024-25 calendar year.
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The CREES COURIER features REES-area studies at the University of Kansas, including event programming, outreach, and faculty, student, and alumni updates. The newsletter comes out twice a year, usually at the beginning of every semester.
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