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Kansas State University main campus at Manhattan; coeducational; land-grant and state supported; chartered and opened 1863. There is an additional campus at Salina. Among the university's research facilities are the J. R. Macdonald Laboratory for research in heavy-ion and atomic physics, the Konza Prairie Research area, and the NASA Center for Gravitational Studies in Cellular and Developmental Biology.

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FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH. "KSU." The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. Oxford University Press. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 5 Dec. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH. "KSU." The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. Oxford University Press. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. (December 5, 2009). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O25-KSU.html

FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH. "KSU." The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. Oxford University Press. 1998. Retrieved December 05, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O25-KSU.html

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