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26 KU undergraduate students selected for 2025 Millennium Fellowship

Human beings build their worlds using metaphors. Just as computer technology has inaugurated a massive metaphorical transformation in the present era, in which we can 'reboot' social causes or 'program' human behavior, books spawned new metaphorical worlds in the newly print-savvy early modern England. Pamphleteers appealed to books to stage political attacks, preachers formulated theological claims using metaphors of page and binding, and scientists claimed to leaf through the 'Book of Nature'. Jonathan P. Lamb shows how, far from offering a mere a linguistic tool, this astonishingly broad lexicon did no less than teach entire cultures how to imagine, giving early modern writers – from Shakespeare to Cavendish, and from the famous to the anonymous – the language to describe and reshape the worlds around them. He reveals how, at a scale beyond anything scholars have imagined, bookish language shaped religious, political, racial, scientific, and literary questions that remain alive today.

Lamb's new book was published in the UK this summer and will be available in the U.S, in this month. 

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Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship 2026-2027
Harvard Radcliffe Institute is now accepting Fellowship Program applications for the 2026-2027 academic year. Applications in humanities, social sciences, and creative arts are due by September 11, 2025, and applications in science, engineering, and mathematics are due by September 30, 2025. More information, along with the link to our application form, can be found on their website. 

International Affairs Advisory Board International Research Award
This award recognizes KU faculty who have provided outstanding leadership in international education through research and discovery efforts at KU. The award includes $1,000 in funding for professional activities and is financially supported by the KUIA advisory board. Award recipients will be invited to give a campus talk on their work in the spring 2026 semester. Nomination deadline: October 8. 

George and Eleanor Woodyard International Educator Award
This award recognizes full-time, tenured KU faculty on the Lawrence campus who have provided outstanding leadership in international education at KU. A $1,000 award is made possible by a generous endowment from George and Eleanor Woodyard. George Woodyard joined the faculty of KU in 1966 and was named KU’s first dean of international studies in 1989. The recipient will be recognized during the spring 2026 semester.  Nomination deadline: October 8

Early Career Faculty Foundations Series: Fall 2025
Friday, Sept. 26, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Office of Faculty Affairs has designed, along with partners from across various units at KU, a day of development sessions featuring topics in instruction and innovation, research and discovery, and professional development and learning. We have partnered with CTE to focus on your most pressing classroom questions and to offer best practices in thinking about course learning outcomes, with the KU Office of Research for grant development resources and to meet with colleagues from KU’s core research labs and research centers, and with campus experts to support you in working effectively with staff and students, whether you are in the classroom or lab, the studio or out on fieldwork. And the best part, we provide breakfast, lunch, and snacks! Registration required at link above.