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Lettuce Eat Local: My Funny Valentines

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Amanda Miller
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Lettuce Eat Local

 

I’m guessing the toddler/pre-K demographic isn’t the primary intended audience for supermarket shelving and displays, but they might as well be tailor-made for my three-year-old. Especially for holidays — bright colors, pretty ribbons, and of course, candy. Often there are even soft or squishy stuffed animals of some sort, on their own or attached to additional appealing paraphernalia, themed for the particular special day or season. 

Again, I don’t envision consumer panel discussions being held at daycares or playgrounds, although, maybe. Catch the kids’ eyes and you might catch the parents’ wallets. 

The Valentine’s Day setup definitely worked on Benson. We had already talked a little about what the holiday is since we had made valentines at our weekly kids’ program, and of course someone had already fed him SweetHearts. The fact that it also brought cute little teddy bears holding cute little jars full of cute little candies, not to mention an entire aisle of chocolates, did not hurt his opinion of Valentine’s Day. 

And as soon as I explain it’s a special day to tell people we love them, of course we’ll need to buy this and this and this for all the people — which is adorable as well as not financially feasible. Fortunately, Benson was up for some compromising; I told him we have things at home that are similar to the gift packs, so he put it down. I told him he could hang onto the bright red squishmallow (super squishable stuffed-animal-pillow-thing) while we were shopping, so he put it back on the shelf when we were ready to check out. 

AND I told him we could have an ice cream picnic for Valentine’s Day, so he left the candy where it belonged. I know when to bring out the big guns. 

We used to do ice cream picnics in the living room every week when our foster girls would come back from their visitation, spreading out my old “picnic quilt” on the carpet and watching a Bluey episode or two. It’d been a long time since, but I broke it out again for the evening of Benson’s birthday for something special, this time with a Nat Geo animal show. He was clearly a fan, bringing it up again often with an earnest “Mommy, I have a great idea!” 

Our family is an ice cream loving one, so while we won’t be making any valentines for Ice Cream, it makes sense that I should make ice cream for my valentines. One of Brian’s self-proclaimed love languages is browned butter ice cream, which pairs perfectly with how Benson’s current obsession is “butter buttons” (more on that in another article), and with how Kiah doesn’t care what I eat as long as I eat calories so that she gets plenty. It seems the hearts have aligned to point straight towards that recipe. 

I’ll still try to whip up a nice meal, but let’s be honest, this is not the best season in our life to strive for the classic romantic experience. Candlelit dinners don’t have the same vibe when your three-year-old usually insists on climbing on the table and will one-hundred-percent demand ketchup for his steak, when your three-month-old has an uncanny ability to be starving right when I sit down to eat and will likely have a diaper blow-out right around that same time. Brian will smell like the farm; I will smell like the children. Time to start singing, “Cannn you feel, the love, tonight….”

But really, I can. I’m in love with this sweet crazy family of mine, and I’d rather have them than an entire display of dark chocolate and pink squishmallows. Benson would too, even though he might not always know it, but this brown butter ice cream will help remind him. 

 

Browned Butter Pecan Ice Cream

Why yes, it IS ice cream flavored with butter. Talk about decadence! — although honestly, you only use a small portion of the butter here. Use the ladled off part, which is essentially clarified butter, as you would any other butter, and expect delightfully rich and nutty aftertones. You can serve this ice cream with almost any toppings you like or as part of a banana split, but really, why would you want to? One bite as is and you’ll be hooked, too. Consider this my Valentine to you.

Prep tips: this is the right amount for our ice cream maker, which is the 1 ½ quart frozen-bowl kind. If you can make a bigger batch, do. 

3 cups whole milk

2 tablespoons cornstarch

1 pound salted butter

2 cups cream

⅔ cup sugar

1 ounce cream cheese, softened

4 ounces toasted pecans

Mix the cornstarch with ½ cup of the milk and set aside. In a large saucepan over medium heat, heat the butter, whisking often, until it’s just beginning to brown. Remove from heat and let set for a couple minutes, until butter solids have settled. Ladle off the clear butter (reserve for another use!), leaving only the browned bits in the saucepan. Pour the remaining milk plus the cream and sugar into the pan with the browned bits, and bring to a boil for a couple minutes. Reduce heat to low and whisk in the cornstarch slurry; bring back to a low boil, stirring constantly with a spatula until it just shows signs of thickening, about a minute or two. Remove from heat and gradually whisk some of this hot cream base into the cream cheese until smooth, and then whisk cream cheese mixture into remaining base. Chill overnight, then freeze in an ice cream maker, adding pecans in the last few churns.

2024 Youth Lawn Mowing Clinic

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Wednesday
March 13, 2024
Two Sessions:
9:20 a.m.-11:30 a.m. & 1:20 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
New Location!
Oaklawn Activity
Center
4904 S. Clifton,
Wichita, KS 67216

K-State Research & Extension, in partnership with the Derby Recreation Commission, is excited to announce plans for the upcoming 2024 Youth Lawn Mowing Clinic. The clinic, scheduled for Wednesday, March 13th, 2024, is moving to a new location this year and will be held at the Oaklawn Activity Center, 4904 S. Clifton in Wichita. Youth in grades 5-9 who are looking for a way to earn summer income and gain lawn care knowledge are encouraged to attend.
The clinic will acquaint attendees with the different types of lawn grasses that grow in our area and how to properly care for each type. In addition, the training will provide youth with information on lawn mower safety, lawn mower maintenance, and the business skills necessary to run a successful lawn mowing business. Each youth will also receive a lawn care information packet, business cards, and safety equipment.
At the conclusion of each clinic, a short graduation ceremony will be held and each participant will receive a certificate of completion. In addition, all graduates will also be awarded $10 in order to support establishing their lawn mowing business.
Two sessions of the Youth Lawn Mowing Clinic are being offered:
• 9:20 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., with check-in beginning at 9:00 a.m.
• 1:20 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., with check-in beginning at 1:00 p.m.
The cost is $10.00 to register through March 2nd, or $15.00 after that date. Space is limited so please register early, as classes do fill up. Register online at www.sedgwick.ksu.edu/events.
The Youth Lawn Mowing Clinic is sponsored by K-State Research & Extension – Sedgwick County, the Derby Recreation Commission, and the Sedgwick County Extension Master Gardener Volunteers.

As drought tightened cattle production, 2023 markets soared

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Cattle market prices are as high as they’ve been in a decade. That’s good news for producers who have been able to maintain their herds in recent years, but a missed opportunity for those who weren’t.

Throughout most of the year, both futures and cash markets for steers, calves and more marked a vast improvement over 2022. By the last week of November, prices for medium and large No. 1 steer calves weighing 500 to 600 pounds) were above $270 per hundredweight, more than $80 per hundredweight higher than the same time in 2022 and more than $100 higher than the average from 2017 to 2021.

James Mitchell, assistant professor and extension economist in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said that the benefits of high prices largely fell to those with access to good grazing and forage.

“It was an exciting year in terms of markets for cattle,” Mitchell said. “Cattle prices leading up to the fall were as high as we’ve seen them in 10 years—that had lots of people excited about the future. On the production side, it was exciting depending on who you asked.”

A wide swath of droughty conditions has made its way down the middle of the United States over the last several years—affecting first the Northern Plains states such as Montana and Idaho in 2021-2022, then the Southern Plains of Kansas and Texas and finally the Southeast in 2023.

“About three-quarters of Arkansas was heavily affected,” Mitchell said. “The southeastern United States has been hit incredibly hard by drought. All of our neighbors to the east—Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Florida—are in a pretty tough spot, still very much in a drought. So for them, here’s not much they can do with these high prices, because they don’t have any grass or forage. There was nothing they could really do this winter, in terms of retaining calves.

“So you’ve got significant portions of cattle-producing states suffering through drought, forcing them to shrink or liquidate their herds because of a lack of forage,” he said. “When you have three consecutive years of that, you’re going to have a tightening of beef cow availability, which means you’ve got fewer calves being born each year. So you have tighter and tighter supplies, which of course leads to higher prices—assuming demand holds steady.”

In January, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that the total U.S. beef cattle inventory was at its lowest since 1962, declining more than 3% from the previous year to 28.9 million head. The inventory reported an entire cattle inventory of 89.3 million. Mitchell said he believes the forthcoming USDA Cattle Inventory report, expected in January 2024, will reflect a fourth consecutive year of contracting cattle supply in the United States.

Of course, there’s almost nothing that can’t price itself out of the market. At a certain point, Mitchell said, consumer resiliency will give way to more competitive pricing for—in this case—other animal proteins, such as poultry, pork and fish.

“People consume less of something when it gets more expensive—it’s just a law of economics,” he said. Mitchell said that rebuilding the country’s beef cattle inventory will be a multi-year process—one that can’t really even begin under the persistence of drought.

“Pastures are going to have to recover before we see any discussion of expanding cattle numbers,” he said. “Even if that does occur, it’s going to take a couple of years for that expansion to be noticed. We don’t have the cows; it’s going to take a year to develop heifers, another year for them to give us calves, and so on. So we’re looking at a few more years of declining cattle numbers.

“An important thing that’s different from 2014-2015, is that it’s going to be more expensive to buy back in and expand herds,” Mitchell said. “Interest rates are higher than they were 10 years ago. We expanded the herds very rapidly in 2014, we did that with low interest rates—so capital was inexpensive. That should lead to more careful calculation in terms of how we decide to expand herds.”

Bayer faces $2.2. billion verdict

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A jury in the Pennsylvania court of Common Pleas ordered Bayer to pay $2.2 billion on Jan. 26. to a man who claimed his lymphoma resulted from use of Bayer’s Roundup herbicide.

John McKivision’s claimed his non-Hodgkins lymphoma came from using Roundup for yard work at his house over a period of several years. The verdict includes $250 million in compensatory damages and $2 billion in punitive damages.

Bayer plans to appeal the verdict, the latest in a string of losses after an earlier string of wins for the chemical company, and the biggest single verdict yet.

In a statement, Bayer said it disagreed “with the jury’s adverse verdict that conflicts with the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence and worldwide regulatory and scientific assessments, and [we] believe that we have strong arguments on appeal to get this verdict overturned and the unconstitutionally excessive damage award eliminated or reduced.”

Bayer said previous damage awards have been reduced by 90% or more.

Since Bayer paid $63 billion to acquire Monsanto in 2018, about 165,000 claims have been filed in the United States against the company for personal injuries allegedly caused by Roundup. They have all come from the lawn and garden side of the Roundup business; Bayer has already announced it is discontinuing glyphosate, the effective ingredient in Roundup, from its lawn and garden division, although it remains available to farmers.

In 2020, Bayer tried to consolidate all its outstanding Roundup cases. It settled most of them for about $9.6 billion but failed to get a settlement covering future cases. More than 50,000 claims remain pending.

Bayer’s legal troubles led its new American CEO to publicly say the company was considering separating out its crop protection business from its other units, but the company has since walked back that speculation, saying only that it is focusing on internal reorganization.

KU News: KU to stage ‘Sweeney Todd, ’ opening Feb. 16

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KU to stage ‘Sweeney Todd,’ opening Feb. 16

LAWRENCE — Before the Broadway national tour begins, a local production of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a Musical Thriller” will explore the psyche of the villain and bring Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant melodies to the community with the help of KU’s Opera and Symphony Orchestra. The show will open Feb. 16 at the University of Kansas. Kansas cast and crew members include students from Hays, Hutchinson, Lawrence, Newton, Olathe, Overland Park, Topeka and Wichita.

 

Study examines strategies to improve effect of parking time on last-mile deliveries

LAWRENCE — A newly published paper from a University of Kansas researcher explores solutions designed for urban and rural environments to help companies minimize the additional time that parking can add to delivery schedules. “With more people ordering online and e-commerce increasing, there will be more and more deliveries that need to be made. That’s going to further exacerbate this challenge of parking,” said author Sara Reed, assistant professor of business analytics, whose work appears in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.

 

University announces winner, finalists for Courtwright Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence

LAWRENCE – Logan Edmondson, a senior in behavioral neuroscience from Fairway, is the recipient of the Courtwright Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence through KU’s Center for Undergraduate Research. Finalists for the award are from Lawrence, Liberal and from Kansas City, Missouri.

 

KU Law graduate wins national writing prize

LAWRENCE – A recent graduate of the University of Kansas School of Law has won second place in a national writing competition for her paper on cryptocurrency regulations in international trade. Allie O’Neill, originally from Reston, Virginia, finished second in the 23rd annual Andrew P. Vance Memorial Writing Competition, which encourages students to explore current issues relevant to customs and international trade law.

 

Full stories below.

 

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Contact: Lisa Coble-Krings, Department of Theatre & Dance, 785-864-5685, [email protected], @KUTheatre

KU to stage ‘Sweeney Todd,’ opening Feb. 16

 

LAWRENCE — Before the Broadway national tour begins, a local production of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a Musical Thriller” will explore the psyche of the villain and bring Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant melodies to the community with the help of KU’s Opera and Symphony Orchestra.

 

“Sweeney Todd” is a co-production of the University of Kansas Department of Theatre & Dance and School of Music. It is directed by Stella Markou, associate professor of voice & opera in the School of Music.

 

“It has been an extraordinary experience working with KU’s talented students, design, music and management teams as we have created an alternate dream world between horror and reality. Sondheim’s brilliant orchestration and sardonic use of text is a perfect foundation that catapults my vision of exploring even a darker side of humanity and its cruel injustices,” Markou said. “Although our anti-hero Sweeney is transfixed in a questionable journey of redemption through revenge, I promise our audiences a unique and unforgettable rendering of this Tony-winning and national touring production.”

 

Following an unjust exile, Sweeney Todd, a social outcast obsessed with revenge, returns to London in search of his family. Soon his barbershop becomes a front for murder, with help from his creative accomplice, Mrs. Lovett.

 

Performances are in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre at Murphy Hall. “Sweeney Todd” will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16, 20 and 21 and at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 18. Tickets are available for purchase on the KU Theatre production website, by calling 785-864-3982 or in person from noon to 5 p.m. weekdays at the box office in Murphy Hall.

 

A talk with Paul Laird, a KU professor of musicology who has published extensively on the topic of musical theatre, will begin 45 minutes before each performance in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre.

 

The Friends of Theatre & Dance are hosting a pre-show reception and inviting all KU staff members at 6 p.m. Feb. 16 in the Design Gallery hallway at Murphy Hall. Staff members interested in mixing and mingling prior to the show should RSVP by email to Jack Rischer by Feb. 7.

 

The creative team

Markou, who is also the coordinator of voice at KU, is a nationally recognized director of opera and musical theatre. She also is on faculty for the Festival of International Opera. Her directing and productions have garnered top recognitions. “The Clever Artifice of Harriet and Margaret” (2021) and “The Pirates of Penzance” (2019) won first place in the NOA’s opera competition, and her production of “The Medium” (2021) won first prize in The American Prize competition. Learn more about Markou.

 

The show’s maestro is Creston Herron, who serves as the director of orchestral activities for KU and serves on the faculty of the Interlochen Arts Camp as the coordinator of orchestras. Herron has enjoyed national recognition as a conductor and educator with ensembles earning numerous national titles under his direction. Learn more about Herron.

 

Joining them on the creative team are theatre & dance department faculty members Dennis Christilles, scenic designer; Ann Sitzman, lighting designer; and Jenna Link, stage manager. Knox McClendon, a senior in theatre design from Topeka, is the costume designer.

 

Reed Schenkel, recent alumnus of the School of Music, will perform as Sweeney Todd.

 

Kansas and Kansas City area cast members (complete cast list online):

Grace Steiner, second-year doctoral student in voice from Hays, as Mrs. Lovett; Colin Bradt, senior in theatre & voice from Lawrence, as Anthony Hope; Eli Panek, master’s student in music from Kansas City, Missouri, as Judge Turpin; Zach Newkirk, freshman in journalism from Overland Park, as Beadle Bamford; and Brandon Heflin, sophomore in microbiology and pre-medicine from Olathe, as Tobias Ragg. Ensemble members: Parker Bennett, sophomore in theatre & voice from Kansas City, Missouri; Seth Bruey, sophomore in theatre performance from Newton; Callee Harris, junior in psychology and social welfare from Hutchinson; Cooper Holmes, sophomore in theatre performance from Overland Park; Samuel Leopold, freshman in voice from Wichita; Caden Moffitt, freshman in journalism from Overland Park; Canton Schenk, sophomore in theatre from Topeka; Natalie Sledd, junior in voice from Kansas City, Missouri; Dymphna Watkins, sophomore in music composition from Overland Park; Elizabeth Wellman, sophomore in dance from Lawrence; and Ella Widen, sophomore in voice and speech, language & hearing from Topeka.

 

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Study examines strategies to improve effect of parking time on last-mile deliveries

 

LAWRENCE — Parking is often a hassle. But what if your job relies on it, as it does for any number of delivery-based occupations?

 

“With more people ordering online and e-commerce increasing, there will be more and more deliveries that need to be made. That’s going to further exacerbate this challenge of parking,” said Sara Reed, assistant professor of business analytics at the University of Kansas.

 

Her paper “Does parking matter? The impact of parking time on last-mile delivery optimization” analyzes strategies that could improve routing such activities. The results show how in urban environments, where customers are close together, short parking windows affect optimal routing decisions, modeled by CDPP (Capacitated Delivery Problem with Parking.) However, in rural environments where parking is more readily available, a parking solution that serves each customer individually may be sufficient.

 

It appears in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.

 

Reed, who co-wrote the paper with Ann Melissa Campbell and Barrett Thomas of the University of Iowa, said that delivery jobs entail a dynamic combination of walking and driving.

 

“Our research is thinking about this from a tactical perspective of how parking time should be factored in when doing the routing,” she said. “And if we do include parking time, how does that change delivery routes? Companies should be interested because if they’re not including it, are they really representing what their drivers are doing? Are they estimating the delivery times correctly?”

 

By modeling this problem on a grid, which is usually representative of an urban environment, Reed showed that searching for parking only has to be 1.6 minutes to affect the structure of the optimal solution.

 

“That’s not much time,” she said. “A recent study in Seattle finds that drivers typically spend 5.8 minutes – and that is a whole lot more than one minute.”

 

This accounts for 28% of the total trip between parking locations being consumed by parking, according to the researchers. Even if delivery drivers practice illegal methods (double parking, stopping in restricted areas), parking still takes time due to safety concerns, avoiding conflict with traffic and cooperating with other drivers.

 

“A lot of people assume delivery drivers double park. But in recent years, some companies require the driver to pay the fine, which disincentivizes them from doing that. In particular with crowdsourced deliveries, the company doesn’t always pay for it,” Reed said.

 

The crucial component of “where” the delivery takes place factors into how this information can be processed.

 

“The paper itself looks at the challenge of parking on the urban to rural continuum,” she said.

 

“In urban areas, we expect customers to be dense, whereas in rural areas, customers are farther apart. Parking challenges are also different. We expect it to be difficult to find parking in urban areas. Rural areas, not so much. What we show is in rural areas, driving to every customer is the best way to route the vehicle. But along that continuum, where does parking time make an impact? For an urban environment, it only has to be 1.6 minutes.”

 

Reed’s previous paper, “Impact of Autonomous Vehicle Assisted Last-Mile Delivery in Urban to Rural Settings,” determined that this technology reduces the completion time of delivery tours and provides the most cost-effective business model.

 

Working on that piece inspired her latest publication.

 

“It became very clear that not a lot of people were thinking about parking in traditional delivery practices,” she said. “What sparked my interest is that this is a way to improve things right now. If the company has a sense of how difficult it is to find parking in an area, including parking time in routing can improve operations today versus relying on some sort of ‘futuristic technology.’”

 

As for Reed’s own future endeavors, this new paper represents a key component of her ongoing research agenda involving last-mile delivery.

 

“Another line of my work considers how drivers could utilize real-time information on parking availability from sensors.

 

There’s been some studies and pilot programs that have implemented this in cities. With better technology, parking enforcement will accompany that, and parking will continue to be an operational challenge for companies,” said Reed, who is now in her third year at KU while specializing in transportation logistics.

 

Ultimately, she said she believed insights into how parking affects last-mile delivery is not only important from a business perspective but from an urban planning one as well.

 

She said, “We want to account for what can be done to make parking better for companies and better for society.”

 

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University announces winner, finalists for Courtwright Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence

 

LAWRENCE – A University of Kansas student who is researching the effects of lay eschatological messaging on temporal horizons is the recipient of the Courtwright Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence through KU’s Center for Undergraduate Research.

 

Logan Edmondson is a senior in behavioral neuroscience from Fairway. He is mentored by Mark Landau, professor of psychology.

 

“Misinformation is a growing threat in online discourse, especially discourse surrounding climate change,” Edmondson said. “My project examines the motivational consequences of exposure to sensationalized messaging about this issue. The long-term goal of this research is to influence how existential issues are presented by the media and inform policy related to the spread of misinformation.”

 

A poster titled “The Effects of End-Times Discourse on Temporal Horizons” about his research will be presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s 2024 annual conference.

 

The Courtwright Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence was established at KU Endowment in 2020 through the contributions of David (class of 1974) and Chris Courtwright (class of 1983). The Courtwright Award seeks to recognize undergraduate students with majors in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences whose research and creative work stand to make meaningful contributions to their fields of study.

 

Courtwright Award finalists are selected from applications for the Undergraduate Research Awards each semester. This is the sixth iteration of this award.

 

Summer/fall 2023 finalists:

Jenna Bellemere, a senior in anthropology and women, gender & sexuality studies from Lawrence, “Becoming, Teleology, and the Transition Narrative,” mentored by Marta Vicente, professor of history.
Brandon Nguyen, a junior in chemistry with a minor in mathematics from Liberal, “Reactivity of Manganese(III)-Hydroxo Complexes with Acidic Phenols,” mentored by Timothy Jackson, professor of chemistry.
Allyson Scribner, a senior in psychology with minors in applied behavioral science and visual art from Kansas City, Missouri, “Little Free Art Mart,” mentored by Francisca Maria Velasco, professor of visual art.

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KU Law graduate wins national writing prize

 

LAWRENCE – A recent graduate of the University of Kansas School of Law has won second place in a national writing competition for her paper on cryptocurrency regulations in international trade.

 

Allie O’Neill, class of 2023, finished second in the 23rd annual Andrew P. Vance Memorial Writing Competition, which encourages students to explore current issues relevant to customs and international trade law. The competition, sponsored by the Customs and International Trade Bar Association (CITBA) and the University of Miami School of Law, was open to students enrolled in a juris doctor or master of laws program at any U.S. law school during the 2022-23 school year.

 

O’Neill’s paper explores digitizing the international trade and finance industry by utilizing the technology enabling cryptocurrency and blockchain, the implications of lack of regulation as financial technology (fintech) matures and a proposal for multilateral regulation in the global sphere as the underlying technology continues to evolve from white paper states to futuristic quantum. This field has interested O’Neill since her undergraduate days studying both economics and finance.

 

“My interest in emerging tech began when I was studying abroad in Dublin,” O’Neill said. “I was exposed to the concept of environmental sustainability and governance, which introduced me to sustainability concepts and frameworks. There are so many implications when it comes to the underlying technology in fintech and what it touches from intellectual property to copyright infringement to trade, criminal law and more.”

 

O’Neill is the fifth KU Law student in 16 years to take first or second place in this national competition. She received a $500 prize from the CITBA.

 

“The award is very validating because I didn’t expect anything from it,” O’Neill said. “It makes me want to write another paper because technology is constantly developing. Anything you write after three months is outdated.”

 

Originally from Reston, Virginia, O’Neill attended KU for both her undergraduate and law degrees. After her graduation from KU Law in May 2023 and her bar passage, O’Neill moved to Texas to serve as an associate at the regional corporate headquarters of JP Morgan Chase & Co, where she focuses on artificial intelligence and emerging tech, learning operational risk, strategy and governance.

 

“I want to stay in this space as long as I can,” O’Neill said. “JP Morgan is a bank, but it’s also a tech company. I have the unique opportunity to experience an interconnection between business, tech and law. It’s very niche.”

 

Past KU Law winners of the Andrew P. Vance Memorial Writing Competition:

2018: Elliot Brewer, class of 2019, second place
2016: Cody Wood, class of 2017, first place
2007: Justin Waggoner, class of 2008, first place
2007: Owen Grieb, class of 2008, second place.

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