Fort Hays State University
The institution was originally located on the grounds of Fort Hays, a frontier military outpost that was closed in 1889.[9] The college would have been known as Fort Hays State University at Dodge City had the plan been approved by the Kansas Board of Regents.Fort Hays faculty could have taught other four-year programs in Dodge City, while courses typically taken by college freshmen and sophomores would remain the same.The museum houses over 100,000 square feet (10,000 m2) of fossil dinosaurs, mosasaurs, pterosaurs, fish and various other prehistoric species that inhabited Kansas over 70–80 million years ago.The Sternberg Museum also includes more than 3.7 million specimens in collections of paleontology, geology, history, archaeology, ethnology, botany, entomology, ichthyology, herpetology, ornithology and mammalogy.[14] In 2010, researchers at the museum showed that plankton-eating fish flourished in the ocean at the same time as the dinosaurs, filling in a 106-million-year gap in the fossil record.Each semester, Fort Hays State University invites nationally recognized leaders to the campus to serve as keynote speakers.Fort Hays State competes in 18 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, track & field (indoor and outdoor) and wrestling; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field (indoor and outdoor) and volleyball.The FHSU shooting team won third place in 2009 in the American Trap event at the National ACUI competition.
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