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The WSU Field Station has experienced a rapid increase in capacity with two externally funded projects from the NSF and U.S. Department of Agriculture, and increased sites from 489 to more than 5,100 acres. Several of the Field Station sites include important aquatic resources (springs, streams, rivers, and impoundments) in the southern part of Kansas. However, the Department of Biological Sciences has no faculty with sufficient expertise to study aquatic systems or contribute to the broader examination of aquatic resources in Kansas. WSU would like to create a new faculty line to address aquatic ecology to increase the momentum of the Field Station and within the Biology Department.

The focus of the aquatic ecologist will likely be understanding aquatic systems in Kansas and fostering linkages across plant, soil, and microbial dimensions. It is expected that this new position would begin in August 2019.

This particular line of funding is specifically for small projects that will either allow for networking and planning, or allow for the immediate pursuit of larger projects that are developing new transformational concepts.

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I am a transplant to Kansas, moving here in 2010 to teach at 麻豆破解版 State University.  As a product of an Indiana farm family (working the same land continuously since 1868), my knowledge of Kansas comes from an Almanac 鈥� in this case 鈥淭he Almanac of American Politics.鈥�

It is from that book that I learned that Jan Meyers was elected to Congress in 1978 from a District that included Kansas City, Kansas and its Johnson County suburbs.  In the 1970s the egotistical, narcissistic President Nixon nearly wrecked the national Republican Party, and triggered a gigantic Democratic landslide in the 1974 congressional elections. Sen. Bob Dole almost lost his Senate seat, and Democrats even won a majority in the State Senate in 1976.

In Washington, moderate Republican women like Meyers and Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (also elected in 1978,) were more successful at holding together their electoral majorities. The Democrats never got close of defeating either of them.

But back in Kansas, the 1985 property tax appraisal revision, crafted by Democratic Governor John Carlin and Republican House Speaker Mike Hayden, sparked a backlash that in 1990 elected the first female Governor of Kansas, Joan Finney.

The Finney coalition, which was built on her social conservatism and law-and-order appeal, was short-lived.  Even if she had run for reelection, no Kansas Democrat could have withstood the massive Republican landslide that followed the collapse of Democratic President Bill Clinton鈥檚 popularity in 1994.

Back in Washington, Meyers served one more term, and conservative Republican Vince Snowbarger replaced her. The farm-subsidy-cutting Freedom to Farm Act of 1996 angered rural Kansans, and the Kansas Board of Education鈥檚 anti-evolution textbook choices angered suburban Johnson County Moderates.  This double-whammy backlash defeated Snowbarger, and was chronicled in Thomas Frank鈥檚 bestselling 鈥淲hat鈥檚 the Matter With Kansas?鈥�

While hundreds of miles away people in New York and San Francisco were trying to answer Frank鈥檚 question, back here in Kansas, Democrat Kathleen Sebelius was trying to rebuild a governing majority. Liberals in Northeast Kansas, combined with rural Western Kansans who fondly remembered her father-in-law (the late Rep. Keith Sebelius), produced her narrow win in 2002 and her landslide win in 2006.

But the governing coalition in Topeka would fall apart again after Sebelius went to Washington as Health and Human Services Secretary. The tax cuts enacted by Gov. Sam Brownback and his allies bankrupted government services and led to the election of Democratic Governor Laura Kelly last year.

This narrative of women politicians fixing the problems left by men is not the only way to tell the story of Kansas politics in the last 40-plus years. I am partial to the Pioneer Woman story, probably because I knew my grandmother, a tough-as-nails nurse.  Raising two children while working in a steel factory was hard, but she kept the family coalition together.

Gov. Kelly faces an uncertain future, especially since she is contending with State Senate President Susan Wagle, who is trying to put together her own Pioneer Woman coalition on a foundation of social conservatives. But we Kansans should be hopeful, because our present is linked to our past through the work of Pioneer Women working in log cabins, the U.S. Congress, and our state Capitol.

Neal Allen is Chair of the Department of Political Science at 麻豆破解版 State University

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