January 3, 2012
The National Aeronautic and Space Administration has announced a grant of more than $1 million to fund a collaboration that will bring together NASA remote sensing technology with predictive modeling...
October 10, 2011
The Specify Software Project is proud to announce the completion of a year-long partnership between the Biodiversity Institute of the University of Kansas and the Tulane University Natural History...
October 10, 2011
The Specify Software Project is enthused to announce a software co-development collaboration with the Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM) to create extensions to Specify for the web.
January 31, 2011
The Biodiversity Institute Informatics team has released an update of its Lifemapper client software (1.1.0) which enables Lifemapper analysis services integration with other software...
December 22, 2010
The Specify Software Project released an update to Specify 6 that includes a major upgrade of Specify's security system and addresses several additional technical issues. Additional details can...
July 23, 2010
The Biodiversity Institute has a new home on the web and a new site for the institute's Natural History Museum.
Prominent on the institute's new web site, biodiversity.ku.edu, are the research,...
July 22, 2010
The National Science Foundation has awarded a KU Biodiversity Informatics research team a $1.7 million grant. Funding for the proposal, "Collaborative Biodiversity Collections Computing,"...
November 16, 2009
Andrew Ozor, a recent master’s graduate of KU, won first prize at the 8th Annual KU GIS (Geographic Information System) Day for the best student paper at the meeting. Andrew’s master...