Question: What is the capital city of the US state where Lonnie Lee VanZand was professor of physics?

Context articles: Interstate 440 (North Carolina)
Lonnie Lee VanZandt
List of capitals in the United States
Greater Boston
Lansing, Michigan
Osonye Tess Onwueme
Lonnie Hammargren
Indiana
Oredo
Carson City, Nevada

Interstate 440 (I-440), also known as the Raleigh Beltline, the Cliff Benson Beltline, or locally as just The Beltline, is an Interstate Highway in the US state of North Carolina.
 I-440 is a 16.4 mi partial beltway that nearly encircles central Raleigh.
 I-440 begins in west Raleigh at an interchange with I-40, as a continuation of US Highway 64 (US 64)/US 1 and traverses a primarily residential area in west Raleigh.
 The freeway makes a turn toward the east, crossing US 70, Six Forks Road, and Wake Forest Road.
 US 1 branches north off of I-440 at Capital Boulevard (US 401), becoming US 401/US 1.
 I-440 turns toward the southeast and follows a brief concurrency with US 64 Business before intersecting I-495/US 64/US 264.
 US 64 is concurrent with I-440 along the remainder of the road's southwesterly routing.
 Exit 16 is the last exit on I-440, where I-440 splits to become I-40 East and West.
Lonnie Lee Van Zandt (1937–1995) was a professor of physics at Purdue University in Indiana, USA.
Washington, D.C. is the current federal capital city of the United States, as it has been since 1800.
 Each U.S. state has its own capital city, as do many of its Insular areas. Historically, most states have not changed their capital city since becoming a state, but the capital cities of their respective preceding colonies, territories, kingdoms, and republics typically changed multiple times.
 There have also been other governments within the current borders of the United States with their own capitals, such as the Republic of Texas, Native American nations, and other unrecognized governments.Siva
Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston, the capital of the US state of Massachusetts, and the most populous city in New England, as well as its surrounding areas.
 The region forms the northern arc of the US northeast megalopolis and as such, Greater Boston can be described as either a metropolitan statistical area (MSA), or as a broader combined statistical area (CSA).
 The MSA consists of most of the eastern third of Massachusetts, excluding the South Coast region and Cape Cod; while the CSA additionally includes the municipalities of Manchester (the largest city in the US state of New Hampshire), Providence (the capital and largest city of the US state of Rhode Island), Worcester, Massachusetts (the second largest city in New England), as well as the South Coast region and Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Lansing is the capital of the US state of Michigan.
 It is mostly in Ingham County, although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County.
 The 2010 Census placed the city's population at 114,297, making it the fifth largest city in Michigan.
 The population of its Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) was 464,036, while the even larger Combined Statistical Area (CSA) population, which includes Shiawassee County, was 534,684.
 It was named the new state capital of Michigan in 1847, ten years after Michigan became a state.
Osonye Tess Onwueme (born 8 September 1955) is a Nigerian playwright, scholar and poet, who rose to prominence writing plays with themes of social justice, culture, and the environment.
 In 2010, she became the University Professor of Global Letters, following her exceptional service as Distinguished Professor of Cultural Diversity and English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.
 She has won several international awards, including: the prestigious Fonlon-Nichols award (2009), the Phyllis Wheatley/Nwapa award for outstanding black writers (2008), the Martin Luther King, Jr./Caeser Chavez Distinguished Writers Award (1989/90), the Distinguished Authors Award (1988), and the Association of Nigerian Authors Drama Prize which she has won several times with plays like "The Desert Encroaches" (1985), "Tell It To Women" (1995), "Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen" (2001), "Then She Said it" (2003), among numerous honors and international productions of her drama.
 Through her plays, she is able to use the theater as a medium to showcase historically silenced views such as African Women, and shedding more light on African life.
 She sustains her advocacy for the global poor and youth, along with the experiences and concerns of the (African) Diaspora in her creative work.
 In 2007, the US State Department appointed her to the Public Diplomacy Speaker Program for North, East, and West India.
 The "2009 Tess International Conference: Staging Women, Youth, Globalization, and Eco-Literature," which was exclusively devoted to the author's work was successfully held by international scholars in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, following the Fonlon-Nichols award to the dramatist.
 She is regarded as one of the band of more important African authors.
 She also is an active speaker regarding domestic violence.
Lonnie Lee Hammargren (born December 25, 1937) is an American politician and a retired neurosurgeon.
 He was elected a member of the non-partisan Board of Regents for the Nevada System of Higher Education, an office he held from 1988 to 1994; he is the former 31st Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. State of Nevada, serving from 1995 to 1999 as a member of the Republican Party.
Indiana is a U.S. state located in the midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.
 Indiana is the 38th largest by area and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States.
 Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis.
 Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th U.S. state on December 11, 1816.
 Indiana borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north, Ohio to the east, Kentucky to the south and southeast, and Illinois to the west.
Oredo is a Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria.
 Its headquarters are in Benin City.
 Oredo is a local government in Edo State, and its capital city is Benin city which also the capital city of Edo State.
 Benin city also remain the capital city of the Benin Empire.
 The Oba Of Benin Omo' oba Erediauwa palace is also located here and many historic palaces and buildings are located in this city.
 Oredo is home to many including the Oba Of Benin Omo Noba Nedo Uku Akpolokpolo Oba Erediauwa, Chief Sam Igbe who also is the Iyase Of Benin Kingdom late Chief Engineer Ima Igiehon, who was the Obaghayomwn of Benin Kingdom, Chief Gabriel Osawaru Igbinadion the Esama Of Benin Kingdom, Prince Adun Akenzua and many other prominent princes and chiefs.
Carson City, officially the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City, is an independent city and the capital of the US state of Nevada, named after the mountain man Kit Carson.
 As of the 2010 census, the population was 55,274.
 The majority of the population of the town lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada, about 30 mi south of Reno.
 The town originated as a stopover for California bound emigrants, but developed into a city with the Comstock Lode, a silver strike in the mountains to the northeast.
 The city has served as the capital of Nevada since statehood in 1864 and for much of its history was a hub for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, although the tracks were removed in the 1950s.
 Prior to 1969, Carson City was the county seat of Ormsby County.
 In 1969, the county was abolished, and its territory merged with Carson City to form the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City.
 With the consolidation, the city limits today extend west across the Sierra Nevada to the California state line in the middle of Lake Tahoe.
 Like other independent cities in the United States, it is treated as a county-equivalent for census purposes.