In addition, Konza is a major center of research in the Division of Biology and was founded with the purpose of studying the tallgrass prairie.
Research focuses on the roles of fire and grazing in maintaining the tallgrass prairie.
Burn regimes are imposed at the watershed level on cycles that range from one to twenty years. Bison graze 1,000 ha. In addition possible REU projects have been listed by mentors. Jim Garvey , Fish Ecology - Grazing experiments with crayfish in Kings Creek. Bruce Glymour , Philosophy of Science - The conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory, scientific explanation, and causal inference from statistical data.