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Barry Fitzgerald is returning to Lindsborg to show paintings he made while spending a month at the nearby Red Barn Studio. It was his first artistic residency after a long and successful career as an illustrator.

The exhibition will feature twenty-two 12-foot-tall posters, video displays, digitally fabricated objects, furniture, and printed work representing the diversity of projects created by KU Architecture & Design students.

The Spencer Museum of Art has awarded four KU undergraduate students from Kansas with Brosseau Creativity Awards, which honor innovative and risk-taking creative work in any area of study.

KU architecture professor Keith Van de Riet is redefining how coastal infrastructure is designed. For more than a decade, his research has focused on developed shorelines along the Florida Atlantic and Gulf Coasts where traditional seawalls contribute to habitat loss. In this story heard on NPR’s All Things Considered, Van de Riet discusses his research and the digitally fabricated seawall panel system he designed to mitigate habitat loss along coastal waterways.

The Commons at the University of Kansas will host Red Hot Research sessions in February, March, April and May, including one session in conjunction with the Office of Faculty Affairs and one Red Hot Graduate Research event. The first event will take place at 4 p.m. Feb. 20 at Watson Library, 3 West.