There are lots of ways to measure success. N Sync counts hit records. At McDonald's, it's hamburgers. For the research community at Kansas University, it's money.
More money means more research and that's good.
Each year, the National Science Foundation puts out a list of the 500 public and private universities doing the most research. The latest list ranks KU and the KU School of Medicine 93rd. Out of the 300 public universities on the list, KU is 60th. These are excellent numbers for a state that's big in size and small in population, Barnhill said. But Barnhill expects this year's list, due out in the fall, to rank KU and the Med Center even higher.