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 Update: KC in the Community postponed 

 A new date in Salina will be announced soon. 

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KU in the Community: Salina

Saturday, Oct. 10
10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

KU’s Salina campus
Health Education Center
138 N. Santa Fe Ave., Salina, KS 67401

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Salina, class is in session

Turn knowledge into action that strengthens your community. Come to the University of Kansas’ Salina campus for KU in the Community, a day of free classroom sessions and conversations with Jayhawks who are dedicated to bettering Kansas — and your future.

You’ll leave with useful information you can take back to your life, career, and community.

This event is free and open to everyone. Sessions will have limited space. Sign up now to save your spot.

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What will you discover with KU?

Attend this unique educational event that will explore the discoveries, opportunities, and challenges that matter in Salina and across Kansas.

Session topics include:

  • AI Smorgasbord: A Little Bit of Everything for Educators and Parents

  • Connecting Engineering and Biology in the Pursuit of Growing Plants on the Moon

  • Death, Dying, and Bereavement in the Community

  • How the U.S. Healthcare System Works

  • Indigenous Latin American Languages and the Kansas Linguistic Landscape

  • Leading in Your Community: Finding Your Path to Local Civic Engagement

  • Let’s Make It OK to Say We Really Are Not OK: Talking About Behavioral Health in Our Communities

  • Know Your Numbers: Blood Pressure and Blood Glucose Screening

  • Making Science Fun: A New Educational Board Game on Aquifers in Kansas

  • Managing Your Organization’s Social Media in the Age of Trolls, Automated Bots, and AI

  • One Path to Entrepreneurship: An Approach to Building New Products and Services

  • The Social Cure: Combating the Loneliness Epidemic Through Social Connection

  • Frontier Forts: Western Expansion and the Roles of Forts Riley, Dodge, Wallace, and Hays

  • Illustrating the West: How Artists Portrayed and Interpreted Life on the Prairie

You can choose the sessions that interest you, engage with KU experts, and leave with new knowledge and ways you can make a difference.

Register below, and please share this page with your networks and any adults who may want to attend. 

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Free cancer screenings

You can visit the Tammy Walker Cancer Center (511 S. Santa Fe Ave.) from 9 a.m. to noon on Oct. 10 to receive free health and cancer screenings provided by the Kansas Masons, Salina Masonic Lodge #60, the Tammy Walker Cancer Center, and the Masonic Cancer Alliance (MCA), the outreach network of the University of Kansas Cancer Center.

MCA’s HOPE on Wheels cancer screening bus will offer free prostate and skin cancer screenings, take-home colorectal cancer screening kits, genetic testing education, and radon home testing kits (while supplies last).

This event is open to everyone. No registration or insurance required.

Let us know which sessions you’ll attend

Choose from the available sessions for our community learning event in Salina.

Please note: Some sessions run concurrently, and several occur more than once. Make sure you do not choose duplicate or overlapping sessions.