Baseball interview vs. Illinois

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04/29/2019 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about several examples of student achievement over the past few weeks, including the announcement of Nebraska's most recent Truman Scholar. He also discusses student opportunities to participate in serviceships in support of flood recovery efforts.

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[00:00:00.170]All right, thank you Ben.
[00:00:01.003]We are joined by the Chancellor
[00:00:02.440]of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:04.630]We are here, getting ready to watch a baseball game.
[00:00:07.500]It's been a busy month on campus.
[00:00:09.110]A lot of spring sports are starting
[00:00:10.490]to wind down a little bit.
[00:00:11.900]But even some of the winter sports just wrapped up.
[00:00:13.760]We've had some really good stories to tell
[00:00:15.670]with Huskers' sports here in recent weeks.
[00:00:17.880]We sure have, Greg.
[00:00:18.900]And after the long winter we've had,
[00:00:20.460]it's great to be thinking about actually spring sports
[00:00:23.370]and be out with the sun shining a lot in the last few weeks
[00:00:27.170]and whatnot, so we have had good spring season.
[00:00:32.200]Baseball certainly is doing well
[00:00:34.940]and in the hunt here in the conference.
[00:00:37.390]I'm very excited about that.
[00:00:39.020]Our women's bowling team kind of a perennial power, right.
[00:00:41.970]Made the semi-finals again at the national level.
[00:00:44.610]Very proud of them for their performance in Ohio.
[00:00:47.310]Our men's gymnastics team, the best since 1999,
[00:00:50.340]finished nationally for them.
[00:00:52.430]Made the Super Six and then ended up third nationally,
[00:00:56.060]in the highest Big Ten team in the tournament.
[00:00:58.720]So very pleased for them and their performance,
[00:01:01.920]and excited for them.
[00:01:04.264]We're leading up to commencement here, another week,
[00:01:07.480]and we're gonna be graduating the largest class
[00:01:11.210]in our history.
[00:01:12.670]In our 150 history,
[00:01:14.360]about 300 more then we graduated a year ago,
[00:01:17.940]which was our biggest class we'd ever had
[00:01:20.340]at that point and time,
[00:01:21.380]so exciting time of the year.
[00:01:23.250]No doubt, finals start on Monday.
[00:01:24.910]That's a really busy time and stressful time for students.
[00:01:27.890]A number of those Nebraska students
[00:01:29.670]have had some unique achievements and experiences.
[00:01:32.480]What can you tell us about these?
[00:01:34.460]Well, you know, at the end of the school year,
[00:01:37.050]a lot of awards get made,
[00:01:39.250]both internally on the campus and nationally.
[00:01:42.010]Very highly competitive national academic awards,
[00:01:45.460]and we've had some great success here
[00:01:47.830]amongst our student body in the last few weeks.
[00:01:50.920]A big one was the naming of our 17th Truman Scholar,
[00:01:55.310]which is a big national award,
[00:01:57.150]a $30,000 award for graduate education.
[00:02:00.070]It's highly, highly competitive.
[00:02:02.200]Several hundred finalists compete for this.
[00:02:05.336]And Emily Johnson, our current, new ASUN President
[00:02:10.200]for this next year and her senior year,
[00:02:12.742]was named a Truman Scholar here in the last couple of weeks.
[00:02:15.980]She's a junior from Lincoln.
[00:02:18.650]She's majoring in Global Studies,
[00:02:20.290]Political Science, and Spanish.
[00:02:22.750]So very excited for Emily receiving that honor nationally.
[00:02:27.270]Our speech and debate teams continued to do well.
[00:02:29.910]They won their seventh Big Ten title this season.
[00:02:33.970]And Becca Human, who's a senior from Gretna,
[00:02:37.250]majoring in English and Political Science
[00:02:39.260]won a national title in extemporaneous speaking
[00:02:41.750]here at the national tournament recently.
[00:02:43.730]And our debate team just is returning
[00:02:47.000]from their national Lincoln Douglas debates,
[00:02:49.570]where they were a national runner-up again this year,
[00:02:53.170]so big deal, speech and debate here
[00:02:56.510]is actually the oldest student activity on our campus.
[00:03:01.180]146 years of our history,
[00:03:03.520]we've had a speech and debate program.
[00:03:05.960]Our soil judging team and our School of Natural Resources
[00:03:08.720]and Department Agronomy and Horticulture
[00:03:10.510]placed third nationally just here in the last week.
[00:03:14.110]Our Hotel, Restaurant, Tourism Management program
[00:03:18.400]in the College of Education and Human Sciences
[00:03:20.360]had 26 of our UNL students
[00:03:22.897]who were working at the Masters Tournament
[00:03:26.130]in Augusta here recently and got to observe
[00:03:28.440]that big historic moment with Tiger.
[00:03:31.790]It's the fourth year in a row that they've done that
[00:03:35.200]under the leadership of Professor Shannon Rohan.
[00:03:37.890]And it's almost a two week experience.
[00:03:39.810]They're down there ahead of the tournament
[00:03:41.380]and during the tournament, working the Masters.
[00:03:45.241]And then just this past week,
[00:03:48.091]we had Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, here on campus.
[00:03:53.610]He was here as part of the Raikes School of Computer Science
[00:03:56.570]and Management's Spring Design Studio Showcase,
[00:03:59.620]where they roll out new software applications
[00:04:02.370]they've developed for clients in their senior class.
[00:04:05.550]And had a great conversation with him
[00:04:07.910]for the Greater Lincoln and University
[00:04:10.010]audience and community.
[00:04:12.330]About 1000 people at the Lied Center.
[00:04:14.677]And a conversation listening to Satya
[00:04:17.290]talk about leading this global giant of a company
[00:04:20.580]and the tech space along with Jeff Raikes,
[00:04:23.610]who was kind of leading that conversation with him.
[00:04:26.060]One of our own Nebraskans, who was an executive at Microsoft
[00:04:30.290]and head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
[00:04:32.200]before he retired a few years ago.
[00:04:34.200]So, lots of exciting things and honors for our students,
[00:04:37.400]and activities and wrapping up the year here.
[00:04:40.060]Heard some great things about the Microsoft presentation.
[00:04:42.390]Well, I know the University's been busy
[00:04:43.898]in responding to the flooding that we had around the state
[00:04:47.820]that you've organized resources
[00:04:49.690]and coordinated response.
[00:04:50.710]You've also created some opportunities for students
[00:04:53.270]to give back to the state through service.
[00:04:55.597]How can students get involved with this?
[00:04:58.870]Well, we knew that there would be a great opportunity
[00:05:03.040]for our students to work in effected communities
[00:05:06.070]around the state that are dealing with the recovery
[00:05:08.520]from the flooding earlier this spring.
[00:05:11.870]And we built off of a successful model
[00:05:14.950]that the Rural Futures Institute of the University
[00:05:17.110]developed about five years ago,
[00:05:19.110]where they teamed two students per summer
[00:05:22.300]to go live in and work in a community in the state
[00:05:25.600]that is a partner with that community
[00:05:27.880]around some aspect of rural development.
[00:05:30.810]So, whether it was economic development,
[00:05:32.590]or tourism, or working with their Chamber,
[00:05:36.760]or in a variety of different ways around the state.
[00:05:39.770]So building off that model,
[00:05:41.870]we are now planning to place 50 students
[00:05:45.240]through a serviceship model in communities
[00:05:49.300]across the state that are dealing with flood recovery.
[00:05:52.890]We had 91 applicants.
[00:05:54.700]This came together very quickly over the last month
[00:05:58.300]for these paid internships that will be around the state
[00:06:02.360]for 10 weeks this summer,
[00:06:04.320]where they'll get college credit
[00:06:06.040]for working in these serviceships.
[00:06:09.222]Very excited about that opportunity.
[00:06:11.750]Not for the reason that they're going, certainly,
[00:06:14.350]but the opportunity for learning that they will have
[00:06:17.500]in working with these communities.
[00:06:19.340]They can get information, further information on this
[00:06:22.640]by go.unl.edu/serviceships,
[00:06:27.050]to represent the University in this effort this summer.
[00:06:30.687]Try to help turn a negative into a positive.
[00:06:32.930]Chancellor, always great to see ya.
[00:06:34.370]Best of luck with finals and graduation in a week.
[00:06:36.640]Looking forward to it.
[00:06:37.650]Go Big Red.
[00:06:38.483]Ronnie Green with us here in our pre-game show.
[00:06:40.160]We're back with the first pitch of the Huskers game
[00:06:41.790]with Illinois coming up next from Lier Field.
[00:06:43.890]I am G. College, this is the Huskers Sports Network.

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