TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Broadcaster Bill Kurtis is getting an honorary degree from the University of Kansas.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Kansas Board Board of Regents voted Wednesday to give degrees to Kurtis and longtime KU faculty member Roger Shimomura
Kurtis will receive the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, the university said in a news release. Shimomura will receive the degree of Doctor of Arts.
Kurtis anchored the CBS Morning News and was a longtime CBS anchor in Chicago. He has hosted various A&E crime and news documentary shows. He is well-known in eastern Kansas for warning local viewers, “For God’s sake, take cover!” as a massive F5 tornado bore down on Topeka on June 8, 1966.
Kurtis graduated from KU in 1962 with a journalism degree.
Shimomura taught art from 1969 to 2004 at KU. His art addresses the sociopolitical issues of Asian America. Shimomura started the Shimomura Faculty Research Support Fund in 2004 to foster faculty research.
Shimomura has had more than 125 solo exhibitions of paintings and prints, and presented his experimental theater pieces at venues including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
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