KU design student Kristal Feldt has won top honors in an art contest judged by ... physicists. Her jewelry collection was deemed the best example of art inspired by science at the Quadrennial Congress of Sigma Pi Sigma, a national physics honor society.

KU's Spirit Squad will compete in January at the UCA College Nationals in Orlando, Fla. The cheerleaders earned a full-paid bid, the dancers a partial bid, and Big Jay placed 8th in qualifying to also earn the right to compete.

A $1.2 million Mellon Foundation grant to KU's Spencer Museum of Art places it among the nation's elite university art museums at Yale, Duke, Chicago and Rhode Island. It will allow for expanded use of Spencer's collections in teaching and research throughout KU.

Follow along with KU's David Braaten, deputy director of the Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, as he blogs from Antarctica about his role in studying our planet's last unexplored mountain range. Image © M. Studinger

Globe-O-Mania, the wildly successful trivia challenge for KU students, invites members of the public for the first time to show off their geography mettle in a quiz show-style contest. The competition starts at 2 p.m. Dec. 7 at Spooner Hall.

KU design professor Greg Thomas created the state of Kansas' official ornament that now hangs on the White House Christmas tree. Thomas previously designed a special state license plate to benefit cancer research.

KU's historic buildings display institutional architecture from late-Victorian Romanesque Revival through Beaux Arts Classicism to Collegiate Gothic as well as surprising elements such as this whimsical jester. Do you know where they are? Take the pop quiz.