Men's basketball interview vs. Maryland

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02/21/2019 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about Huskers playing in the Super Bowl and is joined by guest Bob Wilhelm, vice chancellor of research and economic development. Bob talks about the momentum of the university's research efforts in driving discovery and innovation for Nebraska and the world.

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[00:00:00.405](sweet orchestrated music)
[00:00:01.238]Welcome back.
[00:00:02.071]Half time at the Huskers game of the Maryland Terrapins.
[00:00:03.147]I'm joined now
[00:00:04.230]by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green.
[00:00:06.910]Week we closed out the football season
[00:00:08.560]on Sunday with the Super Bowl.
[00:00:09.730]I don't know if you had a chance to catch that at all?
[00:00:11.700]Oh bits of pieces, I did yeah.
[00:00:13.698]You know an interesting game right.
[00:00:16.560]Lowest scoring game of all time I guess
[00:00:18.880]in Super Bowl history
[00:00:20.090]and a lot of chatter about the 100th anniversary
[00:00:22.366]of the NFL coming up this coming year
[00:00:24.700]and of course we're always excited
[00:00:27.140]to have the longest streak in the in the sport
[00:00:30.350]of having Huskers playing former Huskers playing in the
[00:00:33.880]Super Bowl and this year was no exception
[00:00:35.620]to that haven't won on each side
[00:00:36.720]of the ball was kind of interesting right.
[00:00:38.190]Sue and Birkhead representing the university
[00:00:41.207]so well and they're in their pro careers
[00:00:44.310]and it's cool to see that happen and so fun fun Dale huh.
[00:00:49.191]Right. Even a couple interesting commercials along the way.
[00:00:52.560]There certainly were.
[00:00:53.520]Well I always like it when you bring us a guest
[00:00:55.690]and today you have done just that.
[00:00:57.520]We're very pleased to finally get a chance
[00:01:00.140]for our listeners to hear from Bob Wilhelm
[00:01:04.140]who is our vice chancellor for research
[00:01:05.791]and economic development here at UNL.
[00:01:08.110]Well Bob actually came and joined us last May.
[00:01:11.760]So he's been been on board over the best part
[00:01:15.750]of this past year and has hit the ground running
[00:01:17.980]and he essentially leads all of our research
[00:01:20.385]and our economic development thing.
[00:01:22.990]Things like innovation campus
[00:01:24.450]for example effort across
[00:01:26.650]the comprehensive research university for Nebraska.
[00:01:30.150]So Bob great to have him here.
[00:01:32.230]Absolutely
[00:01:33.063]Bob. It is good to have you with us here.
[00:01:33.930]You're coming up on a one year anniversary.
[00:01:35.850]Talk a bit about what's been happening
[00:01:37.590]and kind of your vision moving forward.
[00:01:39.628]Thanks Greg.
[00:01:41.100]Well it's been a great move for me.
[00:01:42.830]This is an exciting place to be.
[00:01:44.410]There's lots of very talented faculty students here.
[00:01:47.296]It's also it's been great to arrive here at this time.
[00:01:51.323]It's an exciting time for the
[00:01:52.834]for Nebraska's research university.
[00:01:55.104]And we're we're celebrating our 150th year
[00:01:58.420]as is Nebraska's land grant university.
[00:02:00.960]It's an it's it's so important.
[00:02:03.070]That's that's the really brings me here gets me
[00:02:05.780]up early every morning.
[00:02:06.658]The research and economic development in creativity
[00:02:09.950]creative activity are an integral part
[00:02:12.150]of both the university
[00:02:13.230]but also the impact that the university has on the state
[00:02:15.745]and really the world at large.
[00:02:18.306]We have now our public private innovation
[00:02:21.410]hub is fueling economic growth.
[00:02:23.722]It's helping this it attract some
[00:02:26.180]of the most innovative faculty
[00:02:27.013]and also providing some very unique experiences
[00:02:30.859]for students both with their classes
[00:02:32.549]but also with their work with companies
[00:02:35.020]both startup companies but well-established companies.
[00:02:38.420]And just recently we opened a new 80000 square foot building
[00:02:42.725]one more on development where we're almost we're
[00:02:46.791]we're well ahead of schedule in terms of building
[00:02:50.500]out what we think might be a 2 million square foot campus.
[00:02:53.870]Things are going along really well.
[00:02:54.755]We're seeing more collaborative research more partnerships
[00:02:58.370]with companies here in Lincoln
[00:02:59.964]and both for the state of Nebraska.
[00:03:02.120]Our researchers are leaders in many different fields
[00:03:05.860]ranging from the arts ,
[00:03:07.197]different areas in the humanities,
[00:03:09.668]engineering, computer science,
[00:03:11.576]different physical sciences
[00:03:13.437]and of course all of our strength
[00:03:15.294]in Child and Family Development
[00:03:17.302]but as well agriculture
[00:03:19.440]of course is just the keystone
[00:03:21.917]for all of our research enterprise.
[00:03:23.764]And there's so many different examples.
[00:03:26.440]I mean I can only name a few.
[00:03:28.069]But so for example in terms of agriculture some
[00:03:31.947]of the things that we're really paying attention
[00:03:34.480]to now have to do with making all of our crops
[00:03:37.530]and our more resilient to all of the changes that we see in
[00:03:41.300]the world particularly for agriculture
[00:03:43.053]but also for natural ecosystems around the state
[00:03:46.700]and around the world.
[00:03:47.900]Of course Nebraska is well-known for different authors
[00:03:51.079]Willa Katharine being one of them.
[00:03:52.995]We're well on her way in a new effort
[00:03:55.410]to have all of Willa Cathy's letters published
[00:03:57.875]electronically to an archive that people
[00:04:00.790]in the state can make use of
[00:04:02.020]but also the scholars all around the world can work on.
[00:04:05.510]So just a few examples to give you some flavor
[00:04:08.230]of what's going on here.
[00:04:09.514]Again that's been the I'm really happy
[00:04:11.840]to be part of the team into building growth for the
[00:04:14.408]for the state and for the university at Nebraska.
[00:04:17.310]We're building for the future
[00:04:18.410]and creating knowledge fuel solutions that are essential
[00:04:21.001]both to our state and also to the world.
[00:04:23.520]Well. It's wonderful to have you here Bob
[00:04:25.836]and chance for another great addition to your team.
[00:04:27.070]Absolutely. We were really happy to welcome Bob,
[00:04:29.920]he came to us from the University North Carolina
[00:04:31.817]earlier this year and has some roots here in the Midwest.
[00:04:35.250]And we were glad to get him back.
[00:04:37.429]So great work that's happening well across the campus
[00:04:41.340]and as as Bob said you know our goal is to continue
[00:04:45.875]to be a bigger research university moving forward in areas
[00:04:49.219]that matter to Nebraska just like we're planning
[00:04:51.920]to celebrate that big 150th anniversary coming up
[00:04:54.510]this next week in our charter Week celebration.
[00:04:56.124]Absolutely.
[00:04:57.860]Great to see both you Bob.
[00:04:58.693]Great to see you again Chancellor.
[00:04:59.960]Always good to see you.
[00:05:00.870]Go big Greg.
[00:05:01.740]Back with more half time. Coming up next.

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