Departmental Overview: Our Roles in the Land-Grant Mission & Graduate Student Introductions

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10/19/2018 Added

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Dr. Lisa Karr, Dr. Phillip Miller, and Dr. Matt Spangler, gives a departmental overview of teaching, research, and Extension. Dr. Clint Krehbiel introduces the new graduate students.

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[00:00:00.420]Really appreciate everyone being here.
[00:00:03.190]Welcome to the fall 2018 semester.
[00:00:06.360]Really excited for another fun and productive year.
[00:00:10.347]Today we wanna take a little bit of time,
[00:00:12.740]predominantly for the new graduate students,
[00:00:15.340]to introduce you, but also give you an overview
[00:00:19.350]of what happens in the three mission areas
[00:00:22.280]within the department.
[00:00:23.871]How many of you realize your at a land grant institution?
[00:00:28.274]How many of you know what a land grand institution is?
[00:00:32.463]There's a few hands that didn't go up,
[00:00:35.180]and so hopefully by the end of these
[00:00:38.200]next three presentations you
[00:00:39.533]have a little better understanding of what that means.
[00:00:44.785]We have three mission areas, those are
[00:00:46.780]teaching, research, and expansion.
[00:00:49.660]Those acts initially go back to Abraham Lincoln
[00:00:53.220]in about 1862.
[00:00:57.420]Each state had a university that focuses
[00:01:00.500]on agriculture and mechanics.
[00:01:03.640]Back in that time, originated a long time ago.
[00:01:08.210]It's very visionary of our forefathers to establish that,
[00:01:11.920]to give land within each state, so that institutions
[00:01:15.480]like the University of Nebraska can be established.
[00:01:18.360]I asked three faculty leaders to present today.
[00:01:21.704]Lisa Karr is the undergraduate research coordinator.
[00:01:28.480]Matt Spangler is our extension coordinator,
[00:01:32.870]and Phil Miller doesn't know it yet,
[00:01:34.900]but I've just named him the research coordinator
[00:01:37.637](laughter)
[00:01:38.997]for the department of animal sciences.
[00:01:41.429]All highly regarded and respected
[00:01:44.040]in those three mission areas and in their fields.
[00:01:48.021]We're gonna start with teaching
[00:01:50.240]because that was the first act established.
[00:01:53.486]So, Dr. Karr we'll just go,
[00:01:57.150]we'll go teaching, research, and extension.
[00:02:01.870]Alright, so I'm the undergraduate teaching coordinator,
[00:02:06.160]so this is a pretty broad overview of the undergrad program.
[00:02:11.230]Try to get updated numbers, so just to start with
[00:02:13.920]in terms of our student demographics
[00:02:15.760]and the types of students we have in our program.
[00:02:18.910]This is the number of students we have in animal science.
[00:02:25.340]This is Ally and I's estimate from (speaks rapidly)
[00:02:28.840]sends us data this week, but I think we are up two students
[00:02:32.910]this year to 331 undergrads,
[00:02:36.010]but I don't have a gender split yet.
[00:02:38.786]If you look at our data, we had a lot of growth.
[00:02:41.430]It was down a little, but we're coming back up.
[00:02:43.770]Vast majority of our students are female,
[00:02:45.740]so 230 female, 97 male students,
[00:02:50.125]so a really high female undergraduate student population.
[00:02:54.140]We've also seen a shift that increase in female students
[00:02:57.343]that increased in urban students as well.
[00:03:05.350]This is their interests by species
[00:03:07.840]of animal they want to work with.
[00:03:10.330]Student filled out an informational card
[00:03:12.310]at new student enrollment, so when they first come
[00:03:14.580]in the summer, and then we try to update it as we go,
[00:03:17.140]but this is sort of based on that initial
[00:03:18.870]what animal do you want to work with information.
[00:03:22.100]The most recent data I have is fall of 2017, so last year.
[00:03:26.090]As you can see, about 38% of them
[00:03:28.915]are interested in companion animals and exotics.
[00:03:32.117]Then 37, so also the same, interested in beef cattle.
[00:03:37.570]Horses are about 16%, and then 9% either
[00:03:43.650]marked a different species or marked a lot of things.
[00:03:46.860]They couldn't pick one, so they're all kind of
[00:03:49.620]lumped together there at the bottom.
[00:03:54.510]Within our undergraduate teaching program
[00:03:56.820]we have seven undergraduate options
[00:03:59.948]depending that the students can use those specialized
[00:04:02.910]depending on what their interest is
[00:04:04.570]in a career after undergraduate.
[00:04:08.100]We have animal biology and biotechnology option,
[00:04:11.220]which is for students who are thinking about graduate school
[00:04:13.850]as heavy in that biology and science classes.
[00:04:17.310]We have business and communications,
[00:04:20.110]so looking at the recent graduates from that option,
[00:04:22.450]a lot of those students ended up in banking
[00:04:24.940]or lending, those sorts of job areas.
[00:04:28.800]A lot of them majored or dual majored
[00:04:30.110]in with add econ and business.
[00:04:33.070]We were campaigning animal option.
[00:04:35.125]First inclined to work with small animals, again.
[00:04:37.619]The career services draw data, what we got from our survey
[00:04:41.470]that I did, a lot of those did turn out working
[00:04:43.490]at animal shelters for pet food companies,
[00:04:46.140]boarding, training, grooming facilities,
[00:04:48.790]as well as many of them going
[00:04:49.820]on to graduate school or veterinary school.
[00:04:52.900]The equine science option,
[00:04:55.787]I have less responses in that option on my survey.
[00:04:59.957]We have some that are working
[00:05:01.360]in boarding, training facilities,
[00:05:04.930]a couple in communications type jobs
[00:05:07.680]within the equine industry, and some that are
[00:05:10.370]at horse farms in Kentucky.
[00:05:13.350]The food animal production and management option said
[00:05:15.980]these are the students who are going back
[00:05:18.300]into production industries, say they've gone back
[00:05:20.860]to the family farm, which was a common answer,
[00:05:23.700]or they're working for a plat or a peak company
[00:05:26.665]related to livestock.
[00:05:29.860]The meat science option, those of you that's going back
[00:05:33.887]into the meat invite and the meat industry
[00:05:35.160]working in food processing, quality insurance.
[00:05:39.260]We'll try more going into the jobs in our grads
[00:05:41.150]being from that option, so I think some were coming
[00:05:43.140]from other options and working in that area.
[00:05:45.660]Then the last option alphabetically,
[00:05:47.730]is veterinary animal science, and those will be students
[00:05:50.497]who are going to veterinary school.
[00:05:53.620]What we've seen is that animal science students
[00:05:55.230]do make up well over half of the class
[00:05:59.270]related to what Nebraska and Iowa state.
[00:06:04.247]That's just really how you read, I'm not expecting you to,
[00:06:06.680]but this was just, I thought, if you wanted to see
[00:06:08.730]the number of students by options,
[00:06:11.410]like in which options were most popular among our students.
[00:06:15.380]They do now declare their options, but when I looked
[00:06:17.233]at that data it wasn't all, not all of them had them yet.
[00:06:20.520]The most popular option is the
[00:06:22.716]food animal production and management option.
[00:06:25.220]That's where 32% of our students fall under that option.
[00:06:30.187]Another about a third of our students
[00:06:31.980]fall into veterinary animal science option,
[00:06:34.790]so thinking about vet school or on that path.
[00:06:37.710]This one tends to be more heavily freshman, sophomores,
[00:06:40.020]and they may be swap out to other options as they go.
[00:06:43.640]The third most popular one is the
[00:06:44.837]companion animal science option,
[00:06:47.500]and then followed by equine science,
[00:06:49.603]the animal biology and biotechnology,
[00:06:52.140]business and communications, and meat science.
[00:06:55.270]As we can see, kind of a lot of our students
[00:06:57.263]fall in that pre vet to start with.
[00:07:04.800]Similar data, this is the graduates by option.
[00:07:09.040]You can see, we've had some portration
[00:07:12.210]in our graduating class, we had a couple years
[00:07:13.730]where they were really big,
[00:07:14.880]and then last year about 63 students graduate
[00:07:17.580]in animal science, and then again
[00:07:19.765]by what option they graduate from,
[00:07:22.400]the highest is the production management,
[00:07:25.570]second is the vet animal science,
[00:07:27.280]and then the companion home business option
[00:07:30.290]are the next highest ones.
[00:07:35.880]I think that business one goes up a lot here
[00:07:38.210]because as students maybe don't like science as well
[00:07:41.330]or don't do as well, some of them slide
[00:07:43.180]into that business option from other ones
[00:07:46.160]because it does have a little less science.
[00:07:53.850]We retain a pretty high amount of students in animal science
[00:07:58.370]from the first year to the second year.
[00:08:02.230]If you're looking at this data,
[00:08:03.700]this is the percentage of students
[00:08:05.700]who started animal science as a freshman
[00:08:07.990]come back in animal science as a sophomore
[00:08:11.260]in the first column.
[00:08:12.626]70 to 78% of students who started out their freshman year
[00:08:16.377]as an animal science major are still
[00:08:18.580]animal science majors their second year.
[00:08:21.317]The next column over is the percentage of our students
[00:08:23.920]who start the animal science, and maybe aren't still
[00:08:25.510]an animal science major, but are somewhere in CASNR.
[00:08:29.100]That's an even higher number, 78 to 86%
[00:08:33.116]are still somewhere in CASNR, so the college of Ag.
[00:08:36.773]Students that are still in CASNR, but not in animal science
[00:08:39.666]have econ and business, fish and wildlife
[00:08:43.455]are kind of the two most popular ones
[00:08:45.337]that they might be in.
[00:08:46.834]The percentage that are still somewhere at UNL,
[00:08:49.676]but not in CASNR, that's anywhere between 85 and 94%,
[00:08:53.770]so we're actually really high in terms
[00:08:55.840]of our students that we recruited in the UNL
[00:08:58.000]staying in animal science, and then the university.
[00:09:01.280]The overall university retention rate is about 80 to 83%,
[00:09:05.310]so a higher percentage of our students are staying
[00:09:07.084]at UNL than the UNL overall average.
[00:09:15.470]Skip that one.
[00:09:17.250]Graduation rates, I haven't gotten the newest ones yet.
[00:09:21.890]They're not calculated.
[00:09:23.810]Our graduation rate, graduated in animal science
[00:09:26.770]that started animal science finish animal science
[00:09:29.890]in four years was 43% from the cohort that started
[00:09:33.450]in 2012 would have graduate in 2016, 2017.
[00:09:38.336]Fairly decent, it is lower than the UNL.
[00:09:42.540]The UNL overall graduation rate is 40%.
[00:09:46.090]This number is higher, it's 58% of them graduated from UNL
[00:09:50.450]in four years, so they started in animal science
[00:09:53.290]and graduated somewhere at UNL,
[00:09:54.980]so almost 60% stayed at UNL and graduated.
[00:09:57.620]It wasn't necessarily in animal science,
[00:09:59.520]but were key on graduated, which I think is a good
[00:10:01.967]number to be at because that's saying our students
[00:10:04.187]are graduating and we found the right fit for them
[00:10:06.650]if they're graduating in four years.
[00:10:08.770]Then, if we weren't the right fit,
[00:10:09.860]we helped them find where they should be.
[00:10:13.330]This is six year graduation rate data,
[00:10:15.440]so similar thing here.
[00:10:18.203]54% of our incoming freshman are graduating
[00:10:21.489]from animal science in six years,
[00:10:23.700]so they started animal science,
[00:10:24.890]stayed with the animal science all the way
[00:10:26.160]through their career and graduated.
[00:10:32.690]78% of them are graduating from UNL is six years,
[00:10:35.450]so pretty high rate.
[00:10:36.480]The overall UNL rate is 66% of incoming freshman
[00:10:39.550]graduate in six years.
[00:10:41.773]Looking at this numbers actually pretty high
[00:10:45.100]in terms of graduating from UNL.
[00:10:50.550]With that in mind, we are doing a lot of things
[00:10:52.690]to increase retention rate repeating animal science students
[00:10:56.030]in animal science or recruiting new students
[00:10:58.053]into animal science, so Katie isn't here today.
[00:11:02.930]She's actually meeting with a group
[00:11:04.040]of new animal science students,
[00:11:05.374]she's meeting with transfer students right now.
[00:11:07.840]Our new academic affairs graduate student is Katie Forrest.
[00:11:10.470]If you haven't met Katie for graduate or faculty
[00:11:12.420]I really recommend you come by and meet her.
[00:11:15.130]She's in the hub, usually eight to one most days.
[00:11:19.880]She's assisting with 95, our freshman orientation seminar,
[00:11:23.170]as well as 201, so one thing I would say
[00:11:26.240]for graduate students who are here,
[00:11:27.700]probably next semester in 201 I'll be asking
[00:11:29.810]more graduates to maybe come talk about what they do,
[00:11:32.810]what they've done to help students get a better idea
[00:11:35.040]of what graduate school is and how it works.
[00:11:36.730]If I hit you up for that, that's what that class is.
[00:11:39.850]It's sophomore students.
[00:11:41.250]And then, she's helping me with students
[00:11:42.950]in need of support or assistance and how we develop programs
[00:11:45.739]to increase student success.
[00:11:48.190]If there's stuff that you wish got done in the lab
[00:11:50.273]or that you could see happen in the lab,
[00:11:52.520]come let Katie know or send her an email.
[00:11:55.650]Junk food days are now on Wednesdays,
[00:11:57.370]so they've got snacks today in the hub.
[00:12:01.870]If anybody's not familiar with the hub,
[00:12:03.820]if you're a new graduate student,
[00:12:05.100]it's our student success center down here A214.
[00:12:09.843]It's providing advising, information,
[00:12:11.623]there's a nice study space, there's a computer
[00:12:14.570]that undergraduate students can print on,
[00:12:16.000]so if someone, if you're a TA for a class
[00:12:17.500]and they say they can't print it home,
[00:12:19.500]there's a computer and a printer in the hub
[00:12:21.440]that they can go use.
[00:12:23.054]It's 5 cents a page, which is basically free
[00:12:26.610]in comparison to other spots.
[00:12:27.580]And then, success programming.
[00:12:29.890]I use food to bring students in there,
[00:12:31.610]so that's sort of what we do in the hub.
[00:12:35.800]That's the end of my slides,
[00:12:37.990]are there any questions for me?
[00:13:00.360]I only have 40 slides.
[00:13:02.763](audience laughs)
[00:13:06.890]Research coordinator, I think that's just parentheses old.
[00:13:10.644](laughter)
[00:13:12.060]If you've got a one in your email, you're old, right?
[00:13:16.390]Clint asked me to quickly go through
[00:13:18.880]and highlight the research program.
[00:13:22.080]And just kind of by way of introduction
[00:13:25.600]everything I'm gonna talk about
[00:13:26.850]I got from the academic program.
[00:13:30.140]Some of the graduate students have looked through this
[00:13:33.070]or were involved in it, but if you're new
[00:13:35.780]I'd really encourage you to look through this.
[00:13:37.470]This has really got a nice summary of the department
[00:13:41.067]including all missions, but the material
[00:13:44.770]that I'm gonna show you today is brought from this.
[00:13:51.320]Some of the things that being here for 28 years
[00:13:55.250]that I draw from or appreciated from the department
[00:13:59.270]that I think, generally, we're a well funded department,
[00:14:02.410]and that's both internal and external funding.
[00:14:06.040]I think we do a great job of translating information
[00:14:09.920]that's done on a basic area up
[00:14:11.780]to consumers and the animal industries.
[00:14:15.950]We're a very team oriented department.
[00:14:18.980]A lot of collaborations between disciplines,
[00:14:21.940]departments on campus, and other institutions.
[00:14:25.757]For the graduate students, most of the faculty,
[00:14:29.460]a lot of the faculty are involved in multi state projects
[00:14:32.280]and committees that I think encourage you
[00:14:33.610]to talk to your professor and ask him or her
[00:14:37.580]what they're involved with in terms of those projects
[00:14:39.853]that are kind of interesting.
[00:14:41.940]It's a good form to understand what others
[00:14:44.440]are doing in your area outside of Nebraska.
[00:14:48.430]We've got a big compilation
[00:14:51.340]of campus and off-campus facilities.
[00:14:53.800]I'm not gonna talk about the campus facilities,
[00:14:56.040]but I'm gonna mention some of the off campus facilities.
[00:15:01.010]Nebraska's a big state, and we've got
[00:15:03.010]research and extension going on across the whole way.
[00:15:07.670]Facilities that you've probably will hear about
[00:15:10.840]or have heard about:
[00:15:12.750]Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center,
[00:15:16.370]I've put the abbreviations in parenthesis
[00:15:18.990]because they're used a lot and people
[00:15:20.460]are scratching their heads what those mean.
[00:15:23.650]ENREC used to be the Ag research and development center,
[00:15:26.600]that's up in Ithaca, it's about 35 miles north of here.
[00:15:30.650]West Central Research and Extension Center in North Platte.
[00:15:34.243]That's the home for Dr. Funston and Dr. Mullinicks.
[00:15:38.687]The Gudmunsen Sandhills Laboratory
[00:15:41.180]and Wagonhammer Extension Center, that's near Whitman.
[00:15:46.530]It's about, I think 13,000 acres.
[00:15:50.519]Panhandle Research and Extension Center in Scottsbluff.
[00:15:54.290]That's where Dr. Jenkins is located.
[00:15:57.010]The High Plains Ag Lab in Sidney, 2,400 acres of high range.
[00:16:03.940]Then, the Barta Brothers Ranch under Ainsworth.
[00:16:07.658]That's about 6,000 acres, so some of the other
[00:16:12.040]off campus facilities that you might hear about.
[00:16:15.680]Like I said, we're a well funded department
[00:16:18.530]over this five year period we were granted
[00:16:21.040]almost 23 million dollars, and I think that's significant,
[00:16:24.210]speaks highly of the caliber of our research faculty.
[00:16:28.660]Alright, I'm gonna quickly go through the research groups
[00:16:32.030]and I've included a little by line of that their area is.
[00:16:36.230]I'm not gonna talk about everyone individually.
[00:16:39.880]Our breeding and genetics group is got a strong foundation
[00:16:43.710]in genomics and quantitative genetics.
[00:16:46.977]These individuals are here.
[00:16:48.960]I'm gonna ask them to stand up,
[00:16:50.480]I don't see Dr. Ciobanu, is Dr. Lewis here?
[00:16:54.780]Yeah, I'm here.
[00:16:55.613]Dr. Ron Lewis, Dr. Mote,
[00:17:00.850]I know Dr. Peterson's here,
[00:17:03.540]and my personal ticket vendor, Dr. Spangler.
[00:17:07.287](laughter)
[00:17:11.830]Our animal health group is an n of one,
[00:17:14.110]I don't know if Dr. Vu is here today.
[00:17:16.320]He's located over in virology department.
[00:17:19.280]He's had a very (mumbles) a new program
[00:17:21.980]that has been very successful in looking
[00:17:24.740]at viral diseases in swine, specifically the purrs virus.
[00:17:31.080]We have some faculty that are adjunct with, are not adjunct
[00:17:36.560]but have a partial appointment in the department.
[00:17:40.247]Dr. Koelsch and Dr. Millmier Schmidt are both
[00:17:45.320]in biological systems engineering.
[00:17:47.470]I just found out Rick doesn't have
[00:17:48.810]a research point in anything personal.
[00:17:51.230]I didn't include Dr. Stoll, he doesn't
[00:17:53.330]have a research deployment, but have worked closely
[00:17:56.900]with the department in terms of environmental issues,
[00:17:59.820]nutrient management, and how that effects
[00:18:01.667]animal production and producers.
[00:18:05.490]Is Amy here today?
[00:18:09.150]Our meat science group, looking at
[00:18:12.030]pre and post harvest factors, muscle biology,
[00:18:15.791]fresh meats, you added processing.
[00:18:19.200]A long history in those areas.
[00:18:21.470]I didn't put Dr. Bursten, is Dr. Bursten here?
[00:18:25.089]I didn't put him on the list.
[00:18:27.003]Dr. Calkins, Dr. Jones, Dr. Schmidt,
[00:18:34.699]wow they're a-wall.
[00:18:36.099](laughter)
[00:18:36.932]I know Gary's here, Dr. Sullivan.
[00:18:39.560](clapping)
[00:18:44.130]Our non-ruminant nutrition group,
[00:18:46.040]swine and poultry nutrition, working in gut health,
[00:18:52.050]the energy in metabolism.
[00:18:56.270]Dr. Purdum, is Dr. Purdum here?
[00:18:59.080]Works as an applied nutrition program
[00:19:01.100]going through bones and layers.
[00:19:03.160]Dr. Burkley's here, by now everybody knows
[00:19:08.810]Phil Miller, our research coordinator.
[00:19:11.259](laughter)
[00:19:13.840]Physiology group, long history
[00:19:16.730]in male and female reproduction,
[00:19:19.010]metabolic endocrinology, internal metabolism effects
[00:19:24.210]on offspring, new area of maternal stress
[00:19:28.960]and offspring metabolism and production.
[00:19:34.690]Dr. Cupp, Dr. Funston's not here he's in North Platte,
[00:19:40.470]Dr. White, Dr. Wood, Dr. Yates.
[00:19:52.049](laughter)
[00:19:55.050]Ruminant Nutrition, the largest group,
[00:19:57.810]the largest number of faculty,
[00:20:00.994]lots of different areas: cow calf, feed lot, nutrition,
[00:20:06.600]crop management, by-products, lots of different areas
[00:20:09.760]that group works in.
[00:20:13.530]Dr. Drewnoski, Dr. Erikson, Dr. Fernando,
[00:20:24.540]the room in microbiology, it's his office
[00:20:26.550]is located like in the perfect place
[00:20:28.370]because he's right between the ruminant nutrition
[00:20:31.930]and as you can see he works in microbial areas,
[00:20:34.910]both relevant to ruminants and non-ruminants.
[00:20:38.920]Dr. Jenkins is in Scottsbluff.
[00:20:42.580]Dr. Kononoff, he's our dairy nutritionist,
[00:20:47.450]Dr. MacDonald, we also refer to him as Jazz.
[00:20:54.120]Thank you P Dog.
[00:20:56.117](laughter)
[00:20:58.446]Dr. Mullinks is at North Platte as well, and Dr. Watson.
[00:21:07.820]There's lots of collaborations that
[00:21:09.440]are going on in the department, and I know I missed some,
[00:21:13.650]but clearly the department had a rich history
[00:21:15.950]with working at the Animal Research Center,
[00:21:18.940]the vet center in Omaha, some things developing
[00:21:22.824]at the Henry Doorly Zoo and the Lincoln Zoo here,
[00:21:26.840]the children's zoo.
[00:21:28.630]I know that a lot of people had collaborations
[00:21:31.020]in Brazil over academia and (talks quietly)
[00:21:34.497]and that seems like it's really developing.
[00:21:38.040]A number of UNL groups, I've just
[00:21:39.930]included a couple of those.
[00:21:42.060]The Food for Health Center and the
[00:21:43.750]Center for the Prevention of Obesity Disease.
[00:21:46.270]There's a lot of collaboration
[00:21:48.020]with faculty in this department.
[00:21:51.610]Faculty here collaborate a lot with other departments
[00:21:55.880]as every department on east campus.
[00:21:59.100]There's a collaboration going in a lot of departments
[00:22:01.650]down on city campus as well,
[00:22:03.440]so that's been a real fruitful area for the department.
[00:22:11.080]One of the things that don't think got enough press
[00:22:14.500]in our review was the activity of the department
[00:22:17.670]went through to discuss their future visions for research.
[00:22:23.550]There were three core areas that were identified
[00:22:26.250]in the academic program review:
[00:22:28.600]animal biology, sustainable animal production systems,
[00:22:32.460]and animal science literacy.
[00:22:33.540]I'm not gonna talk about animal science literacy,
[00:22:36.750]but the animal biology and sustainable production systems
[00:22:41.103]are, I think, worth mentioning especially
[00:22:44.130]if you're a new student and you're not quite sure
[00:22:47.930]how the whole research thing goes together.
[00:22:51.740]The animal biology core area recognizes the work
[00:22:54.953]that our amazing scientists are doing
[00:22:57.050]at a fundamental level.
[00:22:59.987]They also identifies and recognizes going forward
[00:23:02.540]that there are some emerging issues in terms of
[00:23:06.555]post biome, microbiome area.
[00:23:10.590]We also have a critical number of faculty
[00:23:13.110]who are very successful at using their animal model work
[00:23:16.860]for animal work and applying it to biomedical research
[00:23:22.157]and I think (speaks away from microphone)
[00:23:25.110]continue to be a fruitful area
[00:23:26.550]of funding for those individuals.
[00:23:31.410]The other as we look at the production systems
[00:23:34.720]for the major species: beef, dairy, poultry, and swine.
[00:23:39.820]They're being looked at in a sustainable format,
[00:23:44.150]and this is just the example that was
[00:23:46.510]in the APR board of beef production systems,
[00:23:50.260]maybe the one that's most developed at this point.
[00:23:54.850]What I want to emphasize on this,
[00:23:56.850]it's very collaborative, and it's very team oriented,
[00:24:01.560]and it looks at identifying resources, expertise,
[00:24:06.240]and addressing some of the key issues
[00:24:08.300]that the animal industries and consumers are facing.
[00:24:11.650]I think it's a novel way for the nucleus of people
[00:24:16.420]working in this area and the department
[00:24:18.030]around university to tackle the problem.
[00:24:23.220]That's it.
[00:24:26.970]Any questions?
[00:24:29.949]Comments?
[00:24:38.900]Right, thanks.
[00:24:42.030]If there was an award for the shortest presentation
[00:24:44.720]out of this room, I'd win.
[00:24:46.741](laughter)
[00:24:48.630]Maybe there's a point to be had there.
[00:24:51.630]You shouldn't labor fence.
[00:24:53.534](laughter)
[00:24:56.935]When I was a graduate student in the for did,
[00:24:59.960]I really had a very narrow and naive view of extension.
[00:25:04.046]I thought of it as the people that built the county fair.
[00:25:08.500]That was kind of what I thought extension was.
[00:25:11.660]What I want to maybe help point out
[00:25:13.860]is that it's far broader than that.
[00:25:17.930]The other thing that you'll see is
[00:25:19.290]there'll be quite a bit of overlap in the names
[00:25:21.540]between my presentation and Dr. Miller's
[00:25:25.220]and that's because the PhD level extension personnel
[00:25:28.950]in the department, we call them extension specialists,
[00:25:32.500]have partial appointments in more than one mission,
[00:25:36.030]so they're not 100% extension, they have an appointment
[00:25:39.000]in either extension and research or extension and teaching,
[00:25:42.540]and that's by result.
[00:25:44.000]That's to ensure that people that are extending information
[00:25:48.610]to state boards across the state
[00:25:51.100]and regionally, nationally, globally
[00:25:54.050]are engaged in either teaching in a classroom
[00:25:57.300]or in discovery and research as well.
[00:26:01.506]So what do we do?
[00:26:02.780]We work with producers, livestock producers,
[00:26:06.270]allied industry, and youth.
[00:26:09.540]Our goal is to take the discovery from the research
[00:26:14.900]and curriculum development arms of the university
[00:26:18.150]and extend that out to stake holders.
[00:26:21.220]Our mission is really to deliver science-based information
[00:26:24.230]in a timely fashion, so we react
[00:26:27.180]to immediate needs of our clientele.
[00:26:30.910]We use different approaches to do that,
[00:26:33.290]so again as I learned more about extension,
[00:26:36.150]I thought it was the people that stood up
[00:26:38.040]in the position I am right now
[00:26:39.847]and kind of told you how it is,
[00:26:42.690]and really that's not what extension is.
[00:26:44.800]It is large meetings, small meetings, web based presence,
[00:26:48.999]and engaging in translational research
[00:26:52.560]that Dr. Miller mentioned, where we actually work directly
[00:26:55.790]with stake holders, directly with producers
[00:26:58.217]in accomplishing research tasks.
[00:27:01.170]Also, we use what's commonly called
[00:27:03.150]a train-the-trainer kind of approach.
[00:27:05.010]There's only so many of us,
[00:27:06.440]and there's a lot more stakeholders,
[00:27:08.811]so we train key technology and key technology to doctors
[00:27:13.277]who then disseminate our message much more broadly.
[00:27:18.320]Obviously we integrate research with producer education.
[00:27:22.250]So again, we're research focused.
[00:27:24.790]From a youth perspective, we help develop skills
[00:27:27.910]to enable career success.
[00:27:30.270]Think back about the contacts you've had
[00:27:33.260]at your county or state fair.
[00:27:35.072]There's much more that goes on annually
[00:27:38.470]to actually support those activities,
[00:27:40.040]so it's really youth education, curriculum development,
[00:27:43.440]and helping prepare those youth
[00:27:45.510]for whatever their future career may be.
[00:27:48.670]Also, I would contend that extension
[00:27:50.430]has a recruiting responsibility.
[00:27:52.840]I think youth across the state are very well connected
[00:27:57.680]with the extension personnel that their family work with
[00:28:01.390]or via youth programs, and it's that connection
[00:28:04.220]at a very early age that often times can help attract
[00:28:07.184]young people to pursue an undergraduate degree.
[00:28:11.920]The areas of expertise we have from a youth perspective,
[00:28:15.420]we cover the gamut from companion animals,
[00:28:18.100]poultry, meat science, species specific things
[00:28:21.790]in beef, sheep, and swine, and obviously equine as well.
[00:28:25.500]There's are youth events, be it livestock shows,
[00:28:28.800]judging contests, career development kinds of activities.
[00:28:33.830]From an adult perspective, again we hit many
[00:28:37.160]of the same species or areas.
[00:28:40.010]Beef, as Dr. Miller eluded to, in the research side
[00:28:45.170]of the presentation we have a lot of capacity
[00:28:47.860]in these barrels.
[00:28:48.960]Some of you may come from states
[00:28:50.680]where the land grant institution had
[00:28:52.869]80 extension specialists in beef
[00:28:55.710]that had an unrealistic expectation of knowing everything
[00:28:58.640]about nutrition, reproduction, genetics,
[00:29:01.060]environment, et cetera.
[00:29:03.020]We're a lot more specialized in that,
[00:29:05.070]so people like Dr. Jenkins work really
[00:29:07.859]in cow calf management and nutrition,
[00:29:10.700]Dr. Funston in reproduction, Dr. Mullinicks really
[00:29:13.610]on the interphase of reproduction and applied nutrition,
[00:29:17.450]Erickson in the fee mont space,
[00:29:19.710]Dr. Drewnoski in double crops which I think
[00:29:25.560]is the correct terminology for cover crops
[00:29:28.520]cause it's additional harvested crop,
[00:29:31.310]so even a geneticist can learn about things like that,
[00:29:35.450]and then myself who works in the space of genetics.
[00:29:38.720]Dairy we have a unique pairing,
[00:29:40.440]Dr. Kononoff, a nutritionist, but paired directly
[00:29:44.860]with what we call an extension educator in Kim Clark.
[00:29:47.930]Our extension educators have a minimum of a master's degree,
[00:29:51.700]some have a PhD, but they're really the people.
[00:29:54.243]Most of the time they're spread out across the state,
[00:29:57.990]they've either got county or regional base responsibilities
[00:30:02.160]to be direct contacts to the stakeholders.
[00:30:05.710]Horse, Dr. Kathy Anderson.
[00:30:07.590]I encourage you, if you have an equine interest at all,
[00:30:10.384]to google horse quest.
[00:30:13.610]It's a nationally and internationally recognized
[00:30:17.260]web based platform through something called the extension
[00:30:20.284]that Dr. Anderson has really provided leadership with.
[00:30:24.160]Meat Science and Dr. Burson works principally
[00:30:28.640]with health and safety regulations in plants.
[00:30:33.160]Swine, Dr. Mote.
[00:30:35.710]Actually a geneticist that has extension responsibilities
[00:30:39.060]really spanning all things related to swine,
[00:30:42.290]and then colleagues who have partial appointments
[00:30:46.130]in this department that work in environmental aspects.
[00:30:50.640]We do have state-wide presence,
[00:30:52.160]and that was eluded to in the research portion at the top
[00:30:55.960]where we actually have faculty located across the state:
[00:31:00.460]Scottsbluff, in North Platte, and then we
[00:31:03.250]have an extension educator actually housed at ENREC
[00:31:06.377]and the idea there is is that the needs
[00:31:09.280]of clientele differ across the state,
[00:31:12.120]but also for those of you that haven't been to Scottsbluff
[00:31:15.210]it's a long ways away from here.
[00:31:17.453]It would be really easy for the people
[00:31:20.500]in the western part of Nebraska to feel a greater connection
[00:31:23.810]to places like Wyoming or Colorado State
[00:31:27.630]if Nebraska wasn't strategic and actually had a presence
[00:31:31.178]in the far corners of our state.
[00:31:33.940]I mentioned we have a county and region based
[00:31:35.970]extension educators that have a masters or a PhD
[00:31:39.690]and a clearly defined area of expertise.
[00:31:42.635]They're clearly defined as being maybe involved
[00:31:46.271]in beef cattle systems, or in community vitality development
[00:31:52.020]or really have an expectation of working with here.
[00:31:55.640]One of those educators has a clear expectation
[00:31:58.970]of being involved in beef quality insurance for BQA.
[00:32:06.860]So that's my slides.
[00:32:10.340]Any questions?
[00:32:16.010]Let's give all these faculty
[00:32:17.665](clapping drowns out voice)
[00:32:24.890]Very nice overview of our three mission areas.
[00:32:29.583]New students, a couple of things that struck me
[00:32:32.970]while I was listening.
[00:32:34.480]One is if you're interested in TA-ing a class,
[00:32:39.200]I highly encourage you to take that opportunity.
[00:32:43.070]Even if you don't think you're gonna end up
[00:32:44.850]in academia ever, that is very valuable experience
[00:32:50.920]to prepare lecture, get up in front of a class, deliver it,
[00:32:55.050]and in the process of teaching you learn the most.
[00:32:59.291]The best way to learn a subject is to teach it.
[00:33:04.730]If then indeed you're going to TA,
[00:33:08.730]a really good approach is to get with a faculty member
[00:33:12.760]in a different disciplinary area than your own
[00:33:16.630]and challenge yourself with a course
[00:33:19.950]outside of your discipline area.
[00:33:22.340]If you come in from a program where you feel a weakness
[00:33:25.987]in a specific species or in a specific discipline,
[00:33:32.350]take the opportunity to TA that class
[00:33:34.960]because in that process you're gonna learn a lot.
[00:33:37.760]I will say the same about extension.
[00:33:40.660]Dr. Spangler just went through the whole list
[00:33:42.900]of our specialness.
[00:33:44.620]They get out in the state, they are very well connected
[00:33:48.350]with the producers in the state,
[00:33:50.890]and so if you would like to travel with them for a day
[00:33:54.130]I'm sure that opportunity would exist.
[00:33:56.535]Take the opportunity while you're here
[00:33:59.690]for this two or three years to really stretch yourselves
[00:34:02.520]and grow outside of your specific area.
[00:34:06.680]Of course, ASGSA is a really good place
[00:34:09.171]to engage with each other.
[00:34:12.370]Determine what projects are going on in other disciplines
[00:34:16.160]and graduate students can typically use help sampling.
[00:34:21.094]If you have an opportunity to stay up all night
[00:34:24.040]with a physiology group and pull blood
[00:34:26.044]or collect rumen fluid samples, which is my favorite,
[00:34:30.191]take advantage of those opportunities.
[00:34:35.668]I want to introduce the new graduates now.
[00:34:40.350]As I call your name, I'd like for you to stand up
[00:34:44.527]and I am gonna butcher some last names
[00:34:46.660]and so I also invite you to correct me.
[00:34:50.153]As I introduce Kassidy Buse.
[00:34:54.216]Buse.
[00:34:55.283]Buse.
[00:34:56.171](laughter)
[00:34:58.220]From South Dakota, working with Dr. Kononoff
[00:35:01.185]in the area of ruminant nutrition.
[00:35:03.230]Welcome Kassidy.
[00:35:04.335](clapping)
[00:35:08.780]Dorothy Elsken.
[00:35:10.492]Did I get that right?
[00:35:11.540]Alright, one for one.
[00:35:13.196](laughter)
[00:35:14.940]From Nebraska working with Dr. White
[00:35:17.210]in the area of physiology, and so Dorothy we welcome you.
[00:35:20.282](clapping)
[00:35:23.000]Katie Forrest, that was a more easy one,
[00:35:29.220]from Illinois and educational administration,
[00:35:32.470]she's the one that Dr. Karr introduced a little bit ago
[00:35:35.590]working in the hub, so in the student success area.
[00:35:38.820]There'll be a lot of opportunities to meet Katie
[00:35:42.370]if you just walk through the hub.
[00:35:45.280]She has hours there and I'm sure many of you
[00:35:48.520]will have the opportunity to interact with her.
[00:35:51.200]Rebecca Furbeck.
[00:35:57.300]Really nice one, I'm not here to defend her last name.
[00:36:00.412](laughter)
[00:36:01.577]Also from Illinois, working with Dr. Sullivan
[00:36:04.490]in the meats area.
[00:36:06.910]Ema Graham from Rhode Island,
[00:36:11.932]maybe the furthest in the United States,
[00:36:14.870]working in complex biosystems concentrating
[00:36:18.770]in host microbial interactions with Dr. Fernando.
[00:36:23.416]Haley Kizer, is Haley here?
[00:36:27.840]Working with Dr. Karr in extension, a master's student.
[00:36:32.820]Also from Nebraska.
[00:36:34.640]Josh Knapp.
[00:36:36.860]Josh is from, where are you from in Kansas?
[00:36:39.410]Wilshire area.
[00:36:40.550]Wilshire area, working with Dr. Burkey
[00:36:43.200]in non ruminant nutrition, welcome.
[00:36:47.347](clapping)
[00:36:51.800]Kirby Krogstad, did I get that right?
[00:36:54.541]Yes!
[00:36:55.374]Alright, from South Dakota.
[00:36:56.800]Working again with Dr. Kononoff in ruminant nutrition.
[00:36:59.810]Kirby we welcome you!
[00:37:01.089](clapping)
[00:37:04.791]Kyle McLain, I think I saw Kyle here, from Maine.
[00:37:10.090]So we have a (laughter drowns out voice)
[00:37:14.610]again working with Dr. Kononoff in the area
[00:37:17.070]of ruminant nutrition.
[00:37:18.290]Welcome Kyle.
[00:37:20.308](clapping)
[00:37:24.250]Esther Perisho, did I get her name right?
[00:37:29.440]From Indiana, working with Dr. Fernando
[00:37:32.690]and Dr. Mark Pegg in natural resources.
[00:37:37.417]Tyler Pickinpaugh, known to us cause he did
[00:37:42.760]his undergraduate here, from Wyoming,
[00:37:44.470]working with Dr. Burkey in non ruminant nutrition.
[00:37:47.720]Also, helping with the judging team.
[00:37:49.810]Tyler, welcome.
[00:37:51.405](clapping)
[00:37:54.759]Caitlin Ross, Caitlin's here from Kentucky
[00:37:58.850]working with Dr. White in physiology.
[00:38:01.820]We're pleased to have you here.
[00:38:03.400](clapping)
[00:38:07.650]Aksel Wiseman from Nebraska,
[00:38:11.026]working with Dr. Erikson in ruminant nutrition.
[00:38:13.883]Welcome aboard!
[00:38:15.615](clapping)
[00:38:19.530]Down to the end of the alphabet here.
[00:38:23.220]Jiehua Xiong.
[00:38:26.435]I got your last name close but messed up your first name.
[00:38:30.467]You can call me Jiehua or JY.
[00:38:33.479]JY? Jiehua?
[00:38:37.190]From China, also working with Dr. Erikson,
[00:38:40.560]so the farthest student.
[00:38:43.186](laughter)
[00:38:44.600]We welcome you, Jiehua.
[00:38:46.875](clapping)
[00:38:51.534]Robert Ziegler, Robert's here.
[00:38:55.230]Master's student from Pennsylvania
[00:38:57.160]working with Dr. Funston and Dr. MacDonald in physiology.
[00:39:01.810]Welcome aboard, Robert!
[00:39:03.500](clapping)
[00:39:07.548](mumbles)
[00:39:10.800]Opportunity for tomorrow: the ASGSA,
[00:39:13.893]a little plug in for them.
[00:39:16.510]Wendy Pinkerton, whose a public relations person (mumbles)
[00:39:23.140]will be here to give her thought about
[00:39:25.760]thoughts about what happens after graduation
[00:39:28.760]or after graduating from an institution of higher ed.
[00:39:33.280]That will be from 12 to 1:30 in B101.
[00:39:38.400]Any food associated with that, graduate students?
[00:39:41.441][Graduate Student] Yeah, there's coffee and cookies.
[00:39:43.119]Coffee and cookies (speaks away from mic).
[00:39:45.360]Please, please join us for letting you seminar,
[00:39:50.994]if you get the opportunity.
[00:39:53.060]Also gonna remind everyone about the picnic tomorrow evening
[00:39:56.820]from five to eight in Antelope Park at the Auld Pavilion.
[00:40:02.540]Faculty, again a reminder if you would,
[00:40:04.627]but please bring a dessert like you did last year.
[00:40:07.890]Graduate students, you're bringing games.
[00:40:10.320]All the staff, we've won our family this year,
[00:40:14.220]and all the staff, graduate students,
[00:40:18.090]and faculty are invited, and their families.
[00:40:21.430]It will be a really good opportunity to interact
[00:40:23.850]with each other and get to know each other better.
[00:40:25.635]Hope that the majority of you can make it.
[00:40:28.910]We have a good pre-signup.
[00:40:30.500]I think 140 signed up, so really looking forward
[00:40:33.386]to tomorrow evening.
[00:40:36.600]Two weeks from today, Mark Trotter
[00:40:39.070]from the University of Queensland who works
[00:40:41.460]in precision livestock management area will be here,
[00:40:46.351]Jim Kinder, who was on the faculty here,
[00:40:49.870]was andr cup's major professor, and is now a maritie
[00:40:57.637]at Ohio State, was a department at Ohio State,
[00:41:00.897]will be here with Mark, so please plan
[00:41:03.837]for two weeks to be at seminar.
[00:41:07.460]In the off weeks, most of those weeks are filled up,
[00:41:11.180]not on a Wednesday at noon, sometimes on a Friday.
[00:41:16.460]I really appreciate the faculty,
[00:41:18.490]and especially the discipline groups,
[00:41:20.130]opening up those opportunities for the entire department
[00:41:23.340]to engage, so I hope we'll really support each other
[00:41:26.981]in terms of our disciplines, in terms of our students,
[00:41:31.000]and especially the outside speakers that we invite in.
[00:41:34.270]I hope you'll attend as many seminars as you can.
[00:41:38.407]Again, let's thank out faculty leaders
[00:41:42.170]and I hope you have a great rest of your week.
[00:41:44.290]I look forward to seeing you tomorrow night,
[00:41:45.450]so thank you all for being here.
[00:41:46.732](clapping)

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