New Investigators and Research Staff
Welcome to the Life Span Institute at the University of Kansas, one of the oldest and largest of the designated KU research institutes with a proud history of scientific innovation that underpinned societal gains for people with intellectual and physical disabilities, children, families and communities disadvantaged by poverty since 1956.
The Life Span Institute is also known by its full, formal designation as the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies and before that, as the Bureau of Child Research. Its Central Office is at the Dole Human Development Center, 1000 Sunnyside Ave., Lawrence, Kan., at the University of Kansas.
More than 100 research projects are conducted by 130 affiliated researchers from more than 20 different academic departments.
The Life Span Institute supports affiliated investigators from project inception through final delivery with the resources and services of the six units project development, finance and planning, research design and analysis, communications, central office and information technology.
The Dole Human Development Center on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence