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Monday, May 10, 1976
University Daily Kansan
KU's property stretches statewide
By MIKE THIESEN
The University of Kansas owns a lot more land than students see on the Lawrence and Owatonna campuses.
Real estate valued at more than $9 million is owned by either the University or the Kansas University Endowment Association. Included in that real estate is about 34,000 acres of Kansas farmland and six office buildings.
Most of the land owned by the University or the endowment association has been bequeathed or given as a gift by alumni or friends of the University.
The endowment association is a corporation registered with the State of Kansas and is independent of the University, as the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation are independent.
THE ENDOWMENT association works very closely with KU and the state to help improve the University and to make more money available for scholarships, Martin Henry, vice president for property management of the endowment association, said recently.
To build a better University than the
state alone can build," is the endowment association's motto.
In 1863 it became one of the first separate fund-raising foundations at a state university in the United States, Henry said. Since that time the association has accumulated an endowment of almost $50 million.
Henry said that the land owned by the association was divided into two areas: productive real estate and real estate for service.
Productive real estate includes land that the association rents to farmers, and some buildings that the association leases to interested companies or individuals.
HENRY SAID the real estate used for service included many buildings on the Lawrence campus and at the KU Medical Center. Many of the buildings owned by the association and used by the University are leased to the state for $1 a year, Henry said.
Farmland owned by the association is in 25 different Kansas counties and Oklahoma. The land renters to farmers who turn over a percentage of the crop each year as rental payment to the farmer.
Professional farm managers are hired by
the association to deliberate leases and crop rotation with farmers. Henry said the managers also supervised farming practices used on the association's land.
"The managers work for maximum farm income, but at the same time they employ other workers."
HENRY SAID this year's wheat crop had been affected by the dry weather during the winter.
However, he said, he can't estimate the area where he will harvest how many acres will be harvested.
Henry said the endowment association didn't buy or sell much land, so it would be hard to estimate the market value of the farmland. But, he said, he thought the market value of the farmland was close to $8 million.
The association also has revenue-
producing mineral rights in Texas and
Colorado that were gifts. Henry said one
section of land in Colorado was leased for
uranium mining, and the remainder was
used for gas and oil drills.
Buildings owned by the association and used by the Lawrence University include Battery Park.
AT THE MED Center, the association owns the Clinical Pharmacology Building, Breidental Laboratory and the Family Practice Center.
The association also owns the Kansas Power and Light building and the old First National Bank building in Lawrence, Henry said.
At one time, Henry said, the association owned all of the land on the West Campus in Lawrence. Part of the land was given to the University. The rest is still owned by the association and is being kept for future University expansion.
Some of the land owned by the association is also used for research. Henry said that about two sections of land north of the Lawrence Airport were used by the KU biology, botany, engineering and geology departments.
the suru that some of the funds generated by croplands were restricted. If the funds are restricted, they have to be used as the person who gave the land to the association
Prof to study Eskimo's evolution
A Russian heritage combined with a fascination for Siberia has evolved into a five-year research grant for Michael Crawford, associate professor of anthropology. The award is the Career Investment Award from the National Institutes of Health.
He said the grant was given to people who extended extremes promise in research and development.
Stephenson halls, McColum Research Laboratories and seven temporary buildings.
Crawford said he had received grants before but, he said Wednesday. "This grant is very nice. They don't give many nationally."
THE GRANT WILL allow Crawford to do sustained research in his specialty field, but with minimal teaching responsibilities at KU. He will teach one seminar and some graduate courses each semester and will conduct a biological anthropology laboratory.
During the next five years, Crawford will travel to Russia and Central America. On
these trips he will investigate the evolution of two populations: Eskimos of Alaska and Siberia, and the Black Caribs, a group of Central American Indians.
He will study the differences that have
them accustomed to the world and
their ancestors, the Siberian Eskimos,
and the Caucasians.
HE WILL EXAMINE how the environments have affected the Eskimo's genetics, body forms and demography. Dental traits in Eskimo populations will be examined closely to see how they have been changed by environmental factors.
The dental study will benefit the National Institute of Dental Health, a division of the National Institute of Dental Health.
The entire Eskimo research project has been approved by the National Science
Foundation and is being sponsored by the National Academy of Science.
Crawford has done a similar study with many of the same problems, examining Mexican Indian populations in Northern and Central Mexico. The Indian groups, however, were in reproductive isolation for a much shorter time.
Similar research will be done by Crawford on the Black Caribes, a group of men who ran seaside fishing off the coast of Honduras to settle in small groups along the coast of Central America.
THE BLACK CARIB population has increased from 2,000 to 70,000 today. Crawford
BUT IF THE trust doesn't describe the way the funds may be used, they are put into a general fund and used for scholarships. The University also receives the University may have, Henry said.
Crawford will travel to Russia this summer as a member of an exchange program of American and Russian scientists at the Moscow Academy of Science. He will also represent the Academy of Science to represent the United States, pending Russian approval.
Mary Francis Coffman, inventory accountant in the purchasing office, said the University owned land in Miami County for a gift to the University and valued at $10,000.
Coffman also said that the federal government had turned land in Johnson and Reno counties to the University. The University owns about 200 acres of the former Sunflower Ordnance property east of Dahlonega, but it will be the Naval air station near Hutchinson.
Henry said the University also owned farmland in western Kansas which was home to over a million acres.
R. KEITH LAWTON, the director of facilities planning, said that the state had bought very little of the land the University was holding, most had been donated by the association.
Lawton said that if the University had to buy land now, the cost would be much greater than when the association had bought it.
Because the University has had to buy little of the land the campus is built on, he made a plan to get the university to build.
The American Medical Association Education and Research Foundation (AMAERF) gave $27,020.68 to the University of Kansas School of Medicine last week.
physicians, members of the AMA Auxiliary and other individuals.
Gift given med school
Robert B. Kugel, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, accepted the donation during the annual Kansas Medical Society Banquet in Salina
The gift will be used for student activities, support of medical education, student travel to educational meetings, purchase of school equipment and short-term loans to students.
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The AMA-ERF is distributing $1,275,000 to medical schools in the United States this year.
5-year insect study grant made
He said yesterday that his work, along with the family of his parents, had been recognized in national news reports.
Nationally recognized studies in animal behavior helped William J. Bell, associate professor of entomology, receive a five-year Research Career Development Award.
The award, given by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will give Bell a chance to do extensive research in animal behavior and the behavior patterns of cockroaches.
"You can't take my results directly to the patient," he said.
Also, he has been invited to give a paper at the International Congress of Engineering Washington, he gave a paper at the International Congress of Reproduction last fall.
"THE MAN ON THE street doesn't know about my work," Bell said. "But those that do."
He said his research of cockroaches would help scientists understand how the insects eat their food.
"The more we know about that (behavior of cockroaches), the more we will know about the nervous system in all animals—including man."
The award came as a surprise to the 33-year-old professor. He wasn't expecting it, he said, because he does basic types of research.
He said, that training was a big part of the
Bell said he would be working hard during
He said he would step down from his position as the associate dean of research administration and would teach lighter course loads to free himself for his study.
He teaches one graduate-level course every fourth semester, he said, and team-teaches two other courses in alternate semesters.
grant, and that the NIH expected him to learn new ideas and techniques in his area.
Bell will be traveling to Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica next fall, he said. He will be studying bees and cockroaches in the garden, where they live, the cockroaches in their natural habitat.
HE HOPES TO travel to Germany
for his doctoral research.
Bell said he wanted to study at the Max-
Plank Institute in Bavaria, which he
describes as "the hub of neuro-
cognitive research."
"FIVE YEARS paid salary is fantastic," he said, "don't know of any awards that give it for five years, or even close to that." "I don't believe that it was a 12-month
The NIH award is only one of several grants Bell has received, although it is the
"Some people think I'm going to take a five-year vacation. I'm going to be taking courses and visiting labs to learn new techniques I can't learn here," he said.
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