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Mehrangiz Najafizadeh, associate professor of sociology at KU, has earned her third Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. She will teach and conduct research in Azerbaijan during the spring 2027 semester, offering courses and interdisciplinary seminars while continuing her sociological research. Najafizadeh previously received Fulbright Scholar Awards in 2004 and 2022 and served twice as a Fulbright Specialist.

In a new scholarly article, Nathan Wood, associate professor of history at the University of Kansas, describes how after soldiers and poachers killed the last free European bison, Polish naturalists worked with international organizations following World War I to revive the species from the few animals scattered on estates and zoos across the continent.

University of Kansas students Naomi Galindo and Dagan Fultz have won the graduate and undergraduate divisions of the contest for their entries in the annual Laird Essay Contest, sponsored by the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies.

University of Kansas students recently had the opportunity to participate in a NATO simulation exercise, presented in cooperation with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Allied Command Transformation. The experience was part of a Model NATO class offered through the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.