Editing Kansas State University (section)

== Research ==
[[File:KSU Hale library.jpg|thumb|[[Hale Library]]]]

=== Agriculture ===
The university has had a long-standing interest in [[agriculture]], particularly native [[Great Plains]] plant and animal life. The [[Kansas State University Gardens]] is an on-campus [[horticulture]] display garden that serves as an educational resource and learning laboratory for K-State students and the public. The [[Konza Prairie]] is a native tallgrass prairie preserve south of Manhattan, which is co-owned by [[The Nature Conservancy]] and Kansas State University and operated as a field research station by the department of biology. The university also owns an additional {{convert|18000|acre|km2}} in cities across the state that it operates as Agricultural Experiment Stations in research centers in Hays, Garden City, Colby, and Parsons.
[[File:KSU Anderson Hall.jpg|thumb|[[Anderson Hall (Manhattan, Kansas)|Anderson Hall]]]]

In 2006, K-State dedicated the Biosecurity Research Institute.<ref>[http://www.k-state.edu/media/webzine/safetyandsecurity/BRI.html K-State News Services] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616092231/http://www.k-state.edu/media/webzine/safetyandsecurity/BRI.html |date=June 16, 2010 }} "K-State's Biosecurity Research Institute to provide research, training space for food safety and security efforts"</ref> The BRI, in Pat Roberts Hall, is a safe and secure location in which scientists and their collaborators can study high-consequence pathogens. It was designed and constructed for biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) and biosafety level 3 agriculture (BSL-3Ag) research.<ref>{{cite web | title= Biosecurity Research Institute website | url= http://www.bri.k-state.edu/ | format= English | access-date= June 29, 2012 | archive-date= November 10, 2012 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121110112148/http://www.bri.k-state.edu/ | url-status= live }}</ref>

The university's research facilities include the James R. Macdonald Laboratory for research in atomic, molecular and optical physics and the [[NASA]] Center for Gravitational Studies in Cellular and Developmental Biology. The [[excimer laser]], which made [[LASIK]] eye surgery possible, is a technology developed by Kansas State researchers.<ref>{{cite web | title =Kansas State University Achievements | url =http://www.mediarelations.k-state.edu/WEB/News/NewsReleases/priorasaccomplishments.html | format = English | access-date =September 25, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060905163446/http://www.mediarelations.k-state.edu/WEB/News/NewsReleases/priorasaccomplishments.html |archive-date = September 5, 2006}}</ref>

===Radio & television===
Kansas State was involved in early experimentation with television and radio broadcasts. The first radio station licensed in Manhattan was Kansas State's experimental station 9YV.<ref>{{cite journal | title = New Stations: Special Land Stations | journal = Radio Service Bulletin | publisher = U.S. Department of Commerce | date = December 1, 1916 | page = 4 | url = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3221816;view=1up;seq=290 | access-date = November 17, 2018 | archive-date = February 27, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210227211850/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3221816;view=1up;seq=290 | url-status = live }}</ref> In 1912 the station began a daily broadcast (in [[morse code]]) of the [[weather forecast]], becoming the first radio station in the U.S. to air a regularly-scheduled forecast.<ref>{{cite web | title = A Chronology of AM Radio Broadcasting 1900–1960 | url = http://jeff560.tripod.com/chrono1.html | access-date = February 24, 2014 | archive-date = February 10, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120210170300/http://jeff560.tripod.com/chrono1.html | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="KKSU">{{cite web | title = KKSU History | url = http://www.route56.com/radio/mid/kksu.html | access-date = February 24, 2014 | archive-date = June 24, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130624173930/http://www.route56.com/radio/mid/kksu.html | url-status = live }}</ref> After a series of efforts to secure a more high-powered signal for the university – including a brief cooperation with [[John R. Brinkley]]'s notorious KFKB – Kansas State was granted a license for [[KKSU (AM)|KSAC]], which began broadcasting with 500 watts of power on December 1, 1924.<ref name="KKSU" /> The station was reassigned to the frequency of AM 580 in 1928, and continued broadcasting on that frequency until November 27, 2002, when it made its last broadcast after the frequency was bought out by [[WIBW (AM)|WIBW]] in [[Topeka, Kansas]].<ref name="KKSU" />

On March 9, 1932, the [[Federal Radio Commission]] granted Kansas State a license to operate the television station W9XAK.<ref name="W9XAK">{{cite web | title = Early Television Stations: W9XAK – Manhattan, Kansas | publisher = Early Television Museum | url = http://www.earlytelevision.org/w9xak.html | access-date = February 24, 2014 | archive-date = February 23, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140223042606/http://www.earlytelevision.org/w9xak.html | url-status = live }}</ref> It was the first television station in [[Kansas]].<ref>{{cite web| title = A U.S. Television Chronology: 1875–1970| url = http://claytwhitehead.com/ctwlibrary/Box%20070/003_Timelines%20%5B2%20of%202%5D.pdf| access-date = February 24, 2014| archive-date = March 2, 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140302140927/http://claytwhitehead.com/ctwlibrary/Box%20070/003_Timelines%20%5B2%20of%202%5D.pdf| url-status = live}}</ref> Activity on the station peaked in 1933 and 1934, with original programs being produced three nights a week. On October 28, 1939, the station broadcast the [[1939 Nebraska vs. Kansas State football game|Homecoming football game]] in Manhattan between [[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State]] and [[Nebraska Cornhuskers football|Nebraska]], which was the second college football game ever televised.<ref>{{Cite news | title = Televised Game | newspaper = Morning Chronicle | location = Manhattan, Kansas | date = October 28, 1939}}</ref> The station went off the air in 1939.<ref name="W9XAK" />

===K-State Research Exchange===
K-State Research Exchange, referred to as K-REx, is a local branding of Kansas State University's implementation of [[DSpace]].<ref>{{cite web |title=K-REx Home |url=https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/ |website=krex.k-state.edu |access-date=February 10, 2022 |archive-date=February 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207083248/https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=About K-REx |url=https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/page/learn |website=krex.k-state.edu |access-date=February 10, 2022 |archive-date=November 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211116043132/https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/page/learn |url-status=live}}</ref>

Kansas State University graduate students are required to submit an electronic version of their thesis, dissertation, or report, which is then made openly available through the K-State Research Exchange (K-REx), and become indexed by search engines.<ref>{{cite web |title=Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Reports |url=https://www.k-state.edu/grad/academics/etdr/ |website=k-state.edu |access-date=February 10, 2022 |archive-date=February 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222063326/https://www.k-state.edu/grad/academics/etdr/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Reports |url=https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/1 |website=krex.k-state.edu |access-date=February 10, 2022 |archive-date=February 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211152624/https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/1 |url-status=live}}</ref>