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KU Center for Community Health & Development chosen to partner with Kauffman Foundation to improve economic mobility

LAWRENCE — In an effort to increase equity and economic mobility in Kansas City through a broad collaborative project, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation reached out to the Center for Community Health & Development (CCHD) at the KU Life Span Institute. The University of Kansas center will serve as the third-party evaluator and provide educational and action support for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Collective Impact Initiative. Through a grant of $353,000, the foundation will fund CCHD’s role in the expansive effort, including work to support foundation staff and the project’s six coalition partners.

KU announces new 2025-2029 Self Graduate Fellows

LAWRENCE – Twenty doctoral students have been selected to receive the University of Kansas’ Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year. The total value of the four-year doctoral fellowship exceeds $225,000, and this is KU’s largest cohort in the program’s history. Recipients include current and incoming doctoral students from Olathe, Overland Park, Topeka, Wellsville and Wichita, and from Kansas City, St. Joseph and Springfield, Missouri.

50 years afloat: How the KU Concrete Canoe program turned cement into legacy

LAWRENCE – Established in the spring of 1975, the University of Kansas Concrete Canoe team is celebrating its 50th year. What began as a student-led project in the mid-1970s has now grown into a tradition that has shaped generations of Jayhawk engineers, built lifelong friendships and made a splash in the world of civil engineering.

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Contact: Jen Humphrey, Life Span Institute, 785-864-6621, [email protected]
KU Center for Community Health & Development chosen to partner with Kauffman Foundation to improve economic mobility

LAWRENCE — In an effort to increase equity and economic mobility in Kansas City through a broad collaborative project, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation reached out to a nearby University of Kansas center with decades of experience addressing large, complex problems.

The Center for Community Health & Development (CCHD) at the KU Life Span Institute will serve as the third-party evaluator and provide a wide variety of educational and action support for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Collective Impact Initiative (CII). Through a grant of $353,000, the foundation will fund CCHD’s role in the expansive effort, including work to support foundation staff and the project’s six coalition partners.

Christina Holt, assistant director of CCHD, said she is excited about the center’s involvement in the project and its potential to make a positive impact.

“They had a need for a third-party evaluator for their new collective impact initiative, which is their signature initiative now,” Holt said. “They are working to transform economic conditions in the Kansas City metro region. It’s really an honor to be a part of it.”

The Kauffman Foundation’s plan to reach its goal includes three approaches: improving college access and completion, enhancing workforce and career development, and supporting entrepreneurship.

The foundation invited CCHD as the independent organization assigned to provide ongoing support, evaluation and guidance for growth of the project over time for both its staff and the coalition partners.

CCHD has a long history of supporting community health and development through collaborative research and evaluation, teaching and training, and technical support and capacity building.  The center is home to the free, online resource called The Community Tool Box. Translated into Spanish, Farsi and Arabic, the website draws 6 million users annually from areas throughout the world — including in Kansas City.

“When the folks from the Kauffman Foundation reached out, they had been decades-long users of the Community Tool Box,” she said. “They said, ‘When we found out that the people who developed the Tool Box are right down the road, we had to partner with you all.’”

CCHD’s role in the project includes using the Community Toolbox’s Community Check Box Evaluation System, providing tailored technical assistance and offering webinars with content adapted from the Tool Box curriculum. The funding also supports developing and expanding the Tool Box, adding to its resources on collective action, engagement and assessment.

The Kauffman Foundation is incorporating a collective impact approach with a network of community members, organizations and institutions organized into partner coalitions with broad geographic representation and community roots. The coalitions focus on areas such equity and opportunity, technology, entrepreneurship education, university research, workforce partners and others.

Allison Greenwood Bajracharya, chief impact and strategy officer for the Kauffman Foundation, said in an announcement that they are inspired by the number of organizations who have applied to partner in the initiative “to think and act differently in solving some of our regions’ most pressing systems-level challenges.”

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Each of Kansas’ 105 counties receives KU Medical Center outreach.

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Contact: Daniel Rivera, Self Graduate Fellowship, 785-864-7249, [email protected]
KU announces new 2025-2029 Self Graduate Fellows

LAWRENCE – Twenty doctoral students have been selected to receive the University of Kansas’ prestigious Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year. This incoming group of fellows is the largest cohort in the history of the Self Graduate Fellowship, bringing the total number of beneficiaries to over 220 students throughout the program’s history. In fall 2025, the fellowship reaches 57 total current fellows, making it the largest fellowship size ever.

The Self Graduate Fellowship’s mission is to identify and recruit exceptional doctoral students who demonstrate the promise to make significant contributions to their fields and society as a whole. The total value of the four-year doctoral fellowship exceeds $225,000.

The fellowship is a four-year package awarded to incoming and first-year doctoral students who demonstrate leadership, initiative and passion for achievement. The fellowship covers full tuition and fees, provides graduate research assistant support of $38,000 per year, a $12,000 professional development award, $5,000 start-up award, $3,000 textbook and technology award, and a robust professional development program.

The Fellow Development Program provides general education and training in communication, management, innovation, policy and leadership to assist Self Graduate Fellows in preparation for future leadership roles. The development program complements the specialized education and training provided in doctoral programs.

The late Madison and Lila Self launched and permanently endowed the Self Graduate Fellowship in 1989, motivated by their strong belief in the vital importance of developing leadership for tomorrow. Madison Self was a 1943 KU graduate in chemical engineering. Lila Self attended KU with the Class of 1943.

The new Self Graduate Fellows for the 2025-2029 cohort:

• Raechel Camones, of Kansas City, Missouri: bachelor’s degree in biology health science, Missouri Western State University; first-year doctoral student in the interdisciplinary graduate program in biomedical sciences, KU Medical Center.
• Rachel Cionitti, of Olathe: bachelor’s degree in physics & astronomy, KU; expected master of science in physics, University of Missouri-Kansas City; incoming doctoral student in physics & astronomy.
• Alaura Custard, of Overland Park: bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics, KU; expected master of science in geology, KU; incoming doctoral student in geology.
• Danielle Dotson, of St. Joseph, Missouri: bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering with emphasis in biochemical engineering, minor in biomedical engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology; first-year doctoral student in bioengineering.
• Anna Ferkul, of Shakopee, Minnesota: bachelor’s degree in microbiology, minor in psychology, KU; first-year doctoral student in the interdisciplinary graduate program in biomedical sciences, KU Medical Center.
• Jennifer Greer, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland: bachelor’s degree in chemistry, Mississippi State University; incoming doctoral student in chemistry.
• Kenzie Grover, of Lodi, Wisconsin: bachelor’s degree in biology, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point; master of science in biology, Northern Michigan University; first-year doctoral student in ecology & evolutionary biology.
• Dustin Hall, of Wellsville: bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, University of California, Irvine; incoming doctoral student in aerospace engineering.
• Alex Hey, of West Chicago, Illinois: bachelor’s degree in zoology and fish, wildlife and conservation biology, Colorado State University; expected master of science in ecology & evolutionary biology, KU; incoming doctoral student in ecology & evolutionary biology.
• Sydney Houser, of Topeka: bachelor’s degree in biology and psychology-neuroscience, University of Nebraska–Lincoln; first-year doctoral student in pharmaceutical chemistry.
• Chad Lakin II, of Springfield, Missouri: bachelor’s degree in chemistry, Missouri State University; first-year doctoral student in chemistry.
• Jared Melendrez, of Hacienda Heights, California: bachelor’s degree in biotechnology, California State University San Marcos; incoming doctoral student in the interdisciplinary graduate program in biomedical sciences, KU Medical Center.
• Jasmine Perea, of Seward, Alaska: bachelor’s degree in environmental public health, Alaska Pacific University; doctoral student in environmental and water resources science.
• Rene Sabala, of Brawley, California: bachelor’s degree in chemistry, California State University, Chico; incoming doctoral student in chemistry.
• Claire Sabolay, of Belleville, Illinois: bachelor’s degree in chemical & petroleum engineering, KU; first-year doctoral student in chemical & petroleum engineering.
• Kit Savoy, of Olathe: bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, minors in chemistry and theatre, KU; incoming doctoral student in ecology & evolutionary biology.
• Connor Sullivan, of Overland Park: bachelor’s degree in computer science, KU; first-year doctoral student in electrical engineering & computer science.
• Amina Tbaba, of Wichita: bachelor’s degree in chemistry, California State University, Long Beach; first-year doctoral student in neuroscience.
• Makayla Williams, of Muskogee, Oklahoma: bachelor’s degree in anthropology, minor in sociology, Augustana University; first-year doctoral student in anthropology.
• Emily Winnicki, of Medina, Ohio: bachelor’s degree in anthropology and biology, minor in history, The College of Wooster; incoming doctoral student in anthropology.

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KU spent $78.9 million across Kansas on research-related goods and services in FY23.

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50 years afloat: How the KU Concrete Canoe program turned cement into legacy

LAWRENCE – This year marks a milestone for the University of Kansas Concrete Canoe team. Established in the spring of 1975, Concrete Canoe is celebrating its 50th year. What began as a student-led project in the mid-1970s has now grown into a tradition that has shaped generations of Jayhawk engineers, built lifelong friendships and made a splash in the world of civil engineering.

From learning to float …

The KU Concrete Canoe Program was launched with a simple yet bold idea: What if concrete could float? In the hands of creative KU engineering students, that question became a challenge. Inspired by the first collegiate races in 1970, leading to a regional competition that began at Kansas State University the previous year, David Darwin, now a distinguished professor, took the lead in developing KU’s own team.

“When I got to KU in the fall of 1974, I thought that we ought to have a concrete canoe team,” said Darwin. “We started racing that spring up in Manhattan with our canoe, KAN-U.”

KAN-U, a play on both the word “canoe” and the KANU radio station, was made of three-quarter-inch steel conduit, half-inch hardware cloth (wire) and concrete that was lighter than water. In spite of the lightweight concrete, the boat weighed over 300 pounds. The team didn’t win that year, but the knowledge it took home helped the next Concrete Canoe team bring members closer to a trophy.

An addition to the student races were the faculty races, which have now been discontinued. According to Darwin, these races were “a big deal.”

“We’d always have one faculty team,” he said. “Over the next 10 years, that would usually be Stan Rolfe and me.”

That first year, Darwin and Rolfe came in third place. The next, they came in second. Finally, in 1977, Darwin and Rolfe took home first place in the faculty canoe race, and they didn’t lose for at least 10 years after that.

“After Stan and I won the faculty race in 1977, the students kicked in and won the whole thing for years,” he said.

Since the beginning of the program, the rules and regulations of the competition have changed and shifted. In the beginning, teams used whatever resources they were able to get their hands on to create the best possible canoe, including actual racing canoes.

“There was a canoe shop on Michigan Street, and the owner was happy to talk to us about canoes,” Darwin said. “He lent us a racing canoe and we put it in the flume and measured the whole canoe and designed ours off of that.”

Now, there are complex rules to follow in creating a concrete canoe, and 3D-printing a canoe based on a racing canoe won’t cut it. KU wasn’t the only team to use a wide range of strategies to make the best canoe it could, however.

“At the national level, we had some heavy competition with the mechanical engineers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville,” Darwin said. “That’s one of the NASA sites, so they’d use all sorts of space-age materials in their canoe. In those days, you could paint a canoe with epoxy or anything else you wanted to use, so the very best canoes didn’t look like they were concrete.”

Some teams used fiber-reinforced or thermal-setting polymers that would create a really strong boat. Now, in 2025, the canoes are purely cementitious materials.

“This year’s canoe is a work of art,” Darwin said. “There’s not a bit of epoxy in the thing at all. If they don’t win the best-looking canoe out there, I don’t know what will.”

This year’s canoe took home second place overall at the 2025 Mid-America Student Symposium, as well as first place in project proposal and second place in technical presentation.

“I think the Concrete Canoe program is a real fixture in civil engineering departments,” Darwin said. “I think it’s going to have a good, long life.”

… To sailing the seas

As KU Concrete Canoe celebrates 50 years of innovation, this year’s team honored the past by pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with its boldest design yet: Jayhawk’s Revenge.

Led by Dominic Arbini, junior in architectural engineering and captain of the canoe from Fenton, Missouri, the team set out not just to build a canoe, but to raise the standard for the years to come.

“We’ve gotten third and second place in recent years,” Arbini said. “Jayhawk’s Revenge was about taking revenge on those close calls and aiming for our best performance yet.”

This year’s canoe includes a reimagined shape and upgrade features, including gunnels and a more paddle-friendly design aimed at making the racing experience smoother and more inviting for new members.

“Concrete is uncomfortable,” Arbini said with a laugh. “So, we tried to make it as race-friendly as possible.”

The biggest transformation came in the aesthetic approach. Departing from vinyl and stains, the team committed to a 100% concrete-based decoration, using pigmented concrete to create vivid, fully integrated visuals. At the heart of the design? A hand-crafted pirate treasure map featuring the KU campus, representing the team’s second home – the first being, of course, the concrete lab.

“Every inch of this canoe is concrete,” said Arrington Farmer, graduate in architectural engineering and graduate adviser for the program, from Edwardsville, Illinois. “Every design aspect that we chose this year was just trying to push us to be better and better. At some point, we said, ‘Well, we’re already doing so much. Let’s go a little bit farther.’”

This year’s build also reflected the evolution of a post-COVID comeback. After the team briefly dissolved in 2021, a few determined students – including Farmer and former captain Cam Figgins, graduate in civil engineering, from Shawnee – restarted the program.

“This was the first year where a lot of members of the exec board had some experience and had some idea of what we were doing,” Farmer said.

For this year’s team, the journey was one of constant adaptation and community-building. From a cracked canoe to cold, rainy competition conditions, the KU Concrete Canoe team embraced the challenges head-on. Those moments that aren’t necessarily fun in the moment but quickly become unforgettable in retrospect are what the team now lovingly refers to as “Type II-fun.” Long nights, messy labs, surprise challenges — all now memories the team treasures.

“Every time I went to the lab this year, I got to spend time with my friends,” Arbini said. “It kept me motivated. This has been the best part of my college experience.”

Farmer, who plans to move to Texas after her graduation in May, agrees.

“I don’t think we’ll remember the hard times as much as we’ll remember the wins, the laughs and the people. That’s what sticks with you.”

There are many words of wisdom both Arbini and Farmer, as well as Darwin, can offer, but mainly the best thing to do is just to show up.

“It’s intimidating to join a technical club,” Arbini said. “But just be there, ask questions and get involved. We love what we do, and we want to share it.”

“There are no stupid questions,” said Farmer, “especially in a project this unconventional. New members often bring ideas we haven’t thought of.”

Heading into his last year as captain, Arbini hopes to continue to grow the knowledge of building a concrete canoe to pass down to the next 50 years of teams, but for the most part, he just looks forward to growing the community and changing the narrative of engineering-focused activities.

“I’d love to push to have more events on the lake so that we can not only bring people in but show them that we’re not just a bunch of nerds in a lab,” said Arbini with a laugh. “We do have fun. I want to build up a good team so the program can continue to grow when I’m gone.”

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Contact: Justin Henning, University Press of Kansas, 785-864-6785, [email protected]
Audio-Reader Network, University Press of Kansas to partner on e-books, beginning with Bill Kurtis memoir

LAWRENCE — The Audio-Reader Network, a public service organization affiliated with Kansas Public Radio, has entered into an audiobook publishing partnership with the University Press of Kansas (UPK). Both are based in Lawrence and have institutional ties with the University of Kansas.

Feloniz Lovato-Winston, director of Audio-Reader and Kansas Public Radio, began discussions with Tim Paulson, director of UPK, over the last year. Both organizations have had a longstanding relationship of helping to promote each other’s work, but as the two teams became better acquainted, affirmed an increasing sense of how common their missions are and complementary their work is to each other.

“Tim engaged us early on in his tenure at UPK with some get-to-know-you conversations, and we quickly discovered that there may be more we could do together,” Lovato-Winston said.

Coming from a publishing background, Paulson knew how important audio has been to publishing over the last decade. “There have been many ups and downs in publishing over the recent years, but one area that has only grown is audiobooks,” Paulson said.

Audio-Reader has been producing audio content for blind, visually impaired and print-disabled individuals for 50 years, and it has built up a capability in audio production, while UPK has a backlist of over 2,000 titles, most of which have not been released as audiobooks.

“Once we realized that Audio-Reader had the capability to do this for UPK and UPK had the need,” Lovato-Winson said, “it became clear we should try to make this happen.”

“Right now we’re limiting access to many potential users of our content,” Paulson said, “who either prefer audio content or need audio, given any disability they might have. With our new partnership, we can directly publish e-books in commercial channels and provide audio content for free through Audio-Reader’s channels. In both cases, we’re moving our missions forward, thanks to this partnership.”

“At Audio-Reader, we’re always looking for new ways to serve our listeners and increase opportunities for volunteers,” Lovato-Winson said. “We’re hoping that this new partnership will help serve Kansas and beyond in new and impactful ways. We are also looking forward to increasing collaboration between UPK and Kansas Public Radio.”

“I’m new to Kansas,” Paulson said, “but this feels like another way that the people in Kansas and institutions like the University of Kansas find practical ways to make a difference in society.”

The first audiobook to be produced in the partnership will be a memoir, “Whirlwind,” written and narrated by Bill Kurtis, publishing in September. A natural storyteller and KU graduate, Kurtis remembers his career with honesty and insight and gives a rare picture of American history and broadcast journalism.

The Audio-Reader Network fosters independence by providing access to information and the arts for people who have difficulty reading standard print due to vision loss, physical or learning disability, mobility challenges and age. Audio-Reader services are free of charge to anyone who is unable to read standard printed material. The organization relies on volunteer readers to create the content for services, and it is 100% supported by donors and grants.

The University Press of Kansas is a scholarly and regional trade publisher governed by the six state universities in Kansas: Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State University, the University of Kansas and Wichita State University. UPK has been publishing books since 1946; the Press specializes in U.S. politics and law, military history, U.S. history, and books about Kansas and the Midwest.

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KU Debate Team is national runner-up at National Debate Tournament
This marked KU Debate’s ninth appearance in the final round and 22nd time reaching the Final Four in the national tournament, which ended at 2 a.m. April 8.

U.S. News & World Report ranks 48 KU graduate programs in top 50 among public schools
KU has 48 graduate programs in the top 50 among public universities — including 10 programs in the top 10 — in the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings.

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KU Debate Team is national runner-up at National Debate Tournament
LAWRENCE — KU Debate finished as the national runner-up for the second straight season at the 79th National Debate Tournament (NDT), hosted by Gonzaga University from April 4-8.

The KU team of John Marshall, Lawrence, and Graham Revare, Shawnee, lost a 3-2 split decision to Binghamton University in the final round. KU defeated Binghamton in the preliminary rounds on a 2-1 decision, but Binghamton won the rematch in the finals.

The final debate ended at 2 a.m. April 8.

This was KU Debate’s ninth appearance in the final round and 22nd time reaching the Final Four.

“I am so proud of these two incredible debaters and of the entire squad and coaching staff that worked so hard at the tournament and throughout the season,” said Brett Bricker, KU head coach.

Marshall and Revare won the Rex Copeland award recognizing them as the regular season national champions before the start of the NDT. They were a unanimous winner ranking first on every ballot of the 12-person National Selection Committee.

KU had three teams competing in the 78-team field at the NDT, and all three teams finished the season in the top 17 teams in the country. Moreover, and all three qualified for the single-elimination rounds at the tournament.

Joining the team of Marshall and Revare were the teams of Rose Larson, Milwaukee, with Luna Schultz, Houston, and Ethan Harris, Lawrence, with Jacob Wilkus, Lawrence.

After the preliminary debates, Marshall and Revare were the first seed, Larson and Schultz the third seed, and Harris and Wilkus the 17th seed. This was only the fourth time in the history of the program that KU had all three of its teams qualify for the elimination rounds.

Marshall and Revare went 7-1 in the preliminary rounds with wins over the University of Minnesota, Liberty University, the University of Kentucky, the University of West Georgia, the University of Texas-Dallas, Michigan State University and Binghamton University.

Their only preliminary round loss was a split decision against the second-ranked team in the country from Emory University. In the elimination rounds they defeated the University of Michigan in the Sweet 16, Wake Forest University in the Elite Eight and Dartmouth College in the Final Four, advancing to the championship debate.

Larson and Schultz went 7-1 in the preliminary rounds with wins over the University of North Texas, the University of Texas-Dallas, the University of Southern California and two teams each from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University.

Their only loss in the prelims was to eventual champion Binghamton University. They advanced to the Sweet 16 but lost a split decision to California State University-Long Beach.

Harris and Wilkus went 5-3 in the preliminary rounds with wins over Towson University, the Naval Academy, Arizona State University, George Mason University and the University of California-Berkeley. They lost split decisions to the 7th-ranked team in the country from Northwestern University and the NDT Final Four team from California State University-Long Beach.

They lost to the Elite Eight Team from Georgetown University. They advanced to the single-elimination rounds but lost to the University of Michigan.

Revare won the individual first place speaker award at the tournament, becoming the fourth KU debater to win the top speaker award, joining current assistant coach Azja Butler (2021), Jacob Hegna (2019) and Hubert Bell (1955).

Marshall was the fifth-place speaker, Larson finished sixth and Schultz was 13th.

“This was another amazing season for KU Debate and John and Graham deserve recognition as one of the greatest teams in the history of the program,” said Scott Harris, the David B. Pittaway Director of KU Debate. “They are not only extremely talented but exhibit class and character in every debate.

“Dr. Bricker and the assistant coaches poured their heart and souls into helping all of the teams succeed and their effort was inspiring. I am grateful for the privilege of working with so many talented students and coaches who represent the University of Kansas with pride and joy.”

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U.S. News & World Report ranks 48 KU graduate programs in top 50 among public schools
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has 48 graduate programs in the top 50 among public universities — including 10 programs in the top 10 — in the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings, released today.

Highlights include the following:

KU’s local government management program retains its No. 1 ranking among all universities — a position it has held since 1998.
KU’s special education and paleontology programs both rank No. 1 among public schools.
In addition to those programs, KU ranks in the top 10 among publics in speech language pathology (No. 3), physical therapy (No. 5), nursing-midwifery (No. 7), public management and leadership (No. 7), education (No. 8), petroleum engineering (No. 9) and legal writing (No. 10).
Observers wanting to compare this year’s rankings to last year’s rankings should note that U.S. News & World Report no longer issues numeric rankings for medical schools, having switched to a tier ranking system last year. Therefore, the medical school rankings are not included in this year’s list of top 50 subjects. KU remained a Tier 1 school in the Medical School-Primary Care rankings (one of only 16 institutions in Tier 1) and ranked in Tier 2 in the Medical School–Research rankings.

U.S. News & World Report publishes its Best Graduate Schools rankings each spring. These rankings are different from the annual Best Colleges rankings, which are published each fall.

“We are always pleased to see so many of our graduate programs ranked among the nation’s best,” said Chancellor Douglas A. Girod. “That said, we remain focused on our own measures of success, which align with the Kansas Board of Regents’ strategic plan, the needs of Kansas businesses and communities, and our aspirations as one of the nation’s leading research institutions.”

Below is a full list of KU graduate programs ranked in the top 50 among public universities in today’s announcement:

1. Local Government Management

1. Paleontology

1. Special Education

3. Speech Language Pathology

5. Physical Therapy

7. Nursing-Midwifery

7. Public Management and Leadership

8. Education

9. Petroleum Engineering

10. Legal Writing

11. Occupational Therapy

12. Environmental Law

13. Public Finance and Budgeting

14. Clinical Child Psychology

14. Dispute Resolution (Law)

15. Public Affairs

18. Audiology

18. Pharmacy

20. Curriculum and Instruction

22. Contracts-Commercial Law

22. Social Work

24. Full-Time Law

26. Clinical Psychology

27. Healthcare Management

28. Nursing-Anesthesia

30. History

31. Biostatistics

32. Business-Corporate Law

32. Psychology

35. Constitutional Law

35. Fine Arts

36. Aerospace Engineering

36. Full-Time MBA

38. International Law

39. Chemistry

39. Sociology

40. Earth Sciences

40. Intellectual Property Law

40. Mathematics

41. Political Science

42. English

42. Tax Law

44. Civil Engineering

44. Environmental Engineering

44. Trial Advocacy (Law)

47. Economics

47. Physics

49. Biology.

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