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University of Kansas

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The University of Kansas is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. Two branch campuses lie in the Kansas City metropolitan area, one with the medical school and hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, and the other the Edwards Campus in Overland Park. It was founded on March 21, 1865, and opened in 1866 under a charter granted by the Kansas State Legislature in 1864. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity.

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Founded March 21, 1865, the university was opened in 1866 under a charter granted by the Kansas State Legislature in 1864 and legislation passed in 1863 under the state constitution, which was adopted two years after the 1861 admission of the former Kansas Territory as the 34th state into the Union.
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Upon returning from the trip in the fall, Brown began attending high school in Lawrence, then matriculated at the University of Kansas in 1893.
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Sutton was appointed assistant professor of surgery at the four-year-old University of Kansas Medical School.
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