Editing University of Mississippi (section)

===Research===
[[File:Snow at the University of Mississippi Field Station 1.JPG|thumb|upright=2|alt=A series of shallow ponds arranged in a grid and surrounded by forest. There is light snow on the ground.|Research ponds at the University of Mississippi Field Station]]

Ole Miss is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".<ref>{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=176017 |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education |website=Carnegie Classifications |access-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924003441/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=176017 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Washington Post 2016">{{cite news |last=Anderson |first=Nick |date=February 4, 2016 |title=In new sorting of colleges, Dartmouth falls out of an exclusive group |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/04/in-new-sorting-of-colleges-dartmouth-falls-out-of-an-exclusive-group/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=June 9, 2018 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424233049/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/04/in-new-sorting-of-colleges-dartmouth-falls-out-of-an-exclusive-group/ |url-status=live }}</ref> According to the [[National Science Foundation]], the university spent $137 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 142nd in the nation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Table 20. Higher education R&D expenditures, ranked by FY 2018 R&D expenditures: FYs 2009–18 |url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab020.html |website=National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics |publisher=National Science Foundation |access-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930141919/https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab020.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It is one of the 33 colleges and universities participating in the [[National Sea Grant Program]] and participates in the [[National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program]].<ref name="NASA 2015">{{cite web |title=National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program |publisher=NASA |date=July 28, 2015 |url=http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/spacegrant/home/index.html |access-date=June 9, 2018 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203113/https://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/spacegrant/home/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Since 1948, the university has been a member of the [[Oak Ridge Associated Universities]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.research.olemiss.edu/resources/ORAU |title=Oak Ridge Associated Universities |website=Research, Scholarship, Innovation and Creativity |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=August 3, 2021 |archive-date=August 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803235803/https://www.research.olemiss.edu/resources/ORAU |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1963, University of Mississippi Medical Center surgeons, led by [[James Hardy (surgeon)|James Hardy]], performed the world's first human lung transplant, and in 1964 the world's first animal-to-human heart transplant. Because Hardy researched transplantation, consisting of primate studies during the previous nine years, the heart of a [[Common chimpanzee|chimpanzee]] was used for the transplant.<ref name="emory">{{cite web |date=April 12, 2005 |url=http://www.emoryhealthcare.org/transplant-center/lung-transplant/history.html |title=History of Lung Transplantation |publisher=Emory University |access-date=September 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002121447/http://www.emoryhealthcare.org/transplant-center/lung-transplant/history.html |archive-date=October 2, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=January 31, 1964 |title=Surgery: First Heart Transplant |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897112,00.html |magazine=Time |access-date=December 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214015249/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897112,00.html |archive-date=December 14, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1965, the university established its Medicinal Plant Garden, which the School of Pharmacy uses for drug research.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cdfl.com/the-university-of-mississippi-insight-park-medicinal-plant-garden |title=The University of Mississippi Insight Park, Medicinal Plant Garden |publisher=CDFL |access-date=May 8, 2021 |archive-date=May 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508210646/https://cdfl.com/the-university-of-mississippi-insight-park-medicinal-plant-garden |url-status=live }}</ref> Since 1968, the school has operated the only legal [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] farm and production facility in the United States. The [[National Institute on Drug Abuse]] contracts to the university production of cannabis for use in approved research studies and for distribution to the seven surviving [[medical marijuana]] patients grandfathered into the [[Compassionate Investigational New Drug program]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ahlers |first1=Mike |last2=Meserve |first2=Jeanne |date=May 18, 2009 |title=Government runs nation's only legal pot garden |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/18/government.marijuana.garden/index.html |publisher=CNN |access-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930052933/http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/18/government.marijuana.garden/index.html |archive-date=September 30, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> The facility is the only source of marijuana medical researchers can use to conduct [[Food and Drug Administration]]-approved tests.<ref name="lat">{{cite news |last=Halper |first=Evan |date=May 28, 2014 |title=Mississippi, home to federal government's official stash of marijuana |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pot-monopoly-20140529-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414143225/https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pot-monopoly-20140529-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Erickson |first=Britt E. |date=June 29, 2020 |title=Cannabis research stalled by federal inaction |url=https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/natural-products/Cannabis-research-stalled-federal-inaction/98/i25 |work=Chemical and Engineering News |publisher=American Chemical Society |access-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414143227/https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/natural-products/Cannabis-research-stalled-federal-inaction/98/i25 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The National Center for Physics Acoustics (NCPA), which Congress established in 1986, is located on campus.<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu"/><ref name="usnews"/><ref name="acoustics">{{cite web |url=https://ncpa.olemiss.edu |title=Welcome |website=National Center for Physics Acoustics |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419165756/https://ncpa.olemiss.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition to conducting research, the NCPA houses the [[Acoustical Society of America]]'s archives.<ref name="acoustics"/> The university also operates the University of Mississippi Field Station, which includes 223 research ponds and supports long-term ecological research,<ref>{{cite journal |title=The University of Mississippi Field Station |journal=Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America |date=2000 |volume=81 |page=82 |publisher=Ecological Society of America |doi=10.1890/0012-9623(2000)081[0082:FOFS]2.0.CO;2 |issn=0012-9623 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and hosts the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research and the Mississippi Law Research Institute.<ref name="usnews"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://mcsr.olemiss.edu |title=Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414063836/https://mcsr.olemiss.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1156713&HistoricalAwards=false |title=REU Site: Ole Miss Physical Chemistry Summer Research Program |publisher=National Science Foundation |access-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511190653/https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1156713&HistoricalAwards=false |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://mlri.olemiss.edu |title=Mississippi Law Research Institute |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-date=April 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430025838/https://www.mlri.olemiss.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2012, the university completed [[Insight Park]], a research park that "welcomes companies commercializing University of Mississippi research".<ref>{{cite news |date=April 15, 2012 |title=Research facility opens |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/186041207/?terms=%22insight%2Bpark%22 |work=The Clarion-Ledger |page=20 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=July 22, 2021 |url-access=registration |archive-date=July 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729141610/https://www.newspapers.com/image/186041207/?terms=%22insight%2Bpark%22 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insightparkum.com/internal_park_about.html |title=Insight Park |website=Insight Park |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 2, 2021 |archive-date=April 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410112242/http://www.insightparkum.com/internal_park_about.html |url-status=live }}</ref>