Question: In what year was the public research university in the city of Lawrence, Kansas founded?
Context: The Kansas City Ballet is a 30-member professional ballet company in Kansas City, Kansas founded in 1957.  It performs at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and rehearses in the Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity.  The professional company as well as the Kansas City Ballet Second Company (comprising KCB II and trainees) and the Kansas City Ballet School all operate on a day-to-day basis within this rehearsal and performance complex.  The current Artistic Director is Devon Carney and Executive Director is Jeffrey J. Bentley. The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, often shortened to the Dole Institute, is a nonpartisan political institution housed at the University of Kansas founded by the former U.S. Senator from Kansas and 1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole.  Opened on July 22, 2003 - Dole's 80th birthday - the institute's $11 million, 28000 sqft facility houses Dole's papers and hosts frequent political events.  The institute is officially non-partisan and has sponsored on-campus programs featuring prominent politicians of both major parties.  The institute sponsors the Dole Lecture, which is given in April and features a nationally prominent figure addressing some aspect of contemporary politics or policy.  The institute awards the annual Dole Leadership Prize each September, which includes a $25,000 cash award.  The Presidential Lecture Series features the nation's leading presidential scholars, historians, journalists, as well as others including former Presidents, cabinet officers, and White House staff members who discuss the nation's highest office in ways that combine scholarly rigor with popular access. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (German: "Karlsruher Institut für Technologie" ) is a public research university and one of the largest research and education institutions in Germany.  KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe ("Universität Karlsruhe"), founded in 1825 as public research university and also known as "Fridericiana", merged with the Karlsruhe Research Center Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, which was originally established as a national nuclear research center (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe, or KfK) in 1956. The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university based in Denton with programs in natural, formal, and social sciences, engineering, liberal arts, fine arts, performing arts, humanities, public policy, graduate professional education, and post-doc research.  Ten colleges, two schools, an early admissions math and science academy for exceptional high-school-age students from across the state, and a library system comprise the university core.  Its research is driven by about 34 doctoral degree programs.  During the 2013–2014 school year, the university had a budget of $865 million, of which $40 million was allocated for research.  North Texas was founded as a nonsectarian, coeducational, private teachers college in 1890; and, as a collaborative development in response to enrollment growth and public demand, its trustees ceded control to the state in 1899.  In 1901, North Texas was formally adopted by the state.  UNT is the main campus of the University of North Texas System, which includes additional campuses in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Frisco. The University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC) is a public research university serving the greater Kansas City metropolitan area.  Located in Kansas City, Missouri, UMKC is one of four system campuses that collectively constitute the University of Missouri.  UMKC is spread across multiple locales; the main Volker Campus, home to the majority of university operations, is located in Kansas City's Rockhill neighborhood, east of the Country Club Plaza, and adjacent to both the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and the world-renowned Linda Hall Library.  In 2017 the University, in collaboration with Truman Medical Center, Children's Mercy Hospital, the Missouri Health Department, the Jackson County Medical Examiners Office, and the Missouri Department of Mental Health Behavioral Medicine, formed the UMKC Health Sciences District on Hospital Hill.  This district is a first-in-the-nation partnership between local and state governments, the university, and these nationally recognized healthcare faculties, designed to promote collaboration in research, innovation, education, grant funding, and community outreach, for the advancement of health and wellness in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area.  Also in 2017, the university announced plans to expand its metropolitan identity with the construction of a downtown Campus for the Arts, located near the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.  The university's enrollment as of 2015 exceeded more than 16,600 students. Florida International University (FIU) is an American metropolitan public research university in Greater Miami, Florida, United States.  FIU has two major campuses in Miami-Dade County, with its main campus in University Park.  Florida International University is classified as a research university with highest research activity by the Carnegie Foundation and a research university by the Florida Legislature. The University Daily Kansan is an editorially and financially independent student newspaper serving the University of Kansas.  It was founded in 1904. The University of Hagen (German: "FernUniversität in Hagen" , informally often referred to as FU Hagen) is a public research university that is primarily focused on distance teaching.  While its main campus is located in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the university maintains more than 50 study and research centers in Germany and throughout Europe.  According to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany it is Germany's largest university.  The university was founded in 1974 as a public research university by the state Nordrhein-Westfalen and began its research and teaching activities in 1975.  It was founded following the idea of UK's Open University to provide higher and continuing education opportunities through a distance education system in Germany. The University of Kansas, often referred to as KU or Kansas, is a public research university in the U.S. state of Kansas.  The main campus in Lawrence, one of the largest college towns in Kansas, is on Mount Oread, the highest elevation in Lawrence.  Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area: the Edwards Campus in Overland Park, and the university's medical school and hospital in Kansas City.  There are also educational and research sites in Parsons, Topeka, Garden City, Hays, and Leavenworth, and branches of the medical school in Wichita and Salina.  The university is one of the 62 members of the Association of American Universities. Miami University (also referred to as Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university located on a 2,138-acre campus in Oxford, Ohio, 35 miles north of Cincinnati.  Founded in 1809, although classes were not held until 1824, Miami University is the 10th oldest public university and 32nd oldest higher education institution in the United States.  The university also has regional campuses in Hamilton, Middletown and West Chester, as well as the Dolibois European Center in Luxembourg.  Miami University is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with a high research activity.  It is affiliated to the University System of Ohio.
Answer: 1904