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Updates on the Lawrence campus from the Vice Provost for Research — June 2007

KUCR Employee Jumps for Public Awareness, State Record

On Thursday, June 14, KUCR staff member Jeremy Struemph took a leap to draw attention to domestic violence in Kansas. Then he took 52 more.

Struemph, grant specialist in sponsored program administration and skydiver, made 53 skydiving jumps—to mark the number of daily acts of sexual and domestic violence in Kansas—in one day. The event in Osage City was enough to land him in the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame as the new record holder for number of jumps in a single day.

Struemph has been skydiving for two years and also coaches skydiving. He says the event was a joint effort between the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence (KCSDV) and Skydive Kansas. All proceeds from the event went to KCSDV.