Baseball interview vs. Arizona State

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05/13/2019 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about the recent May commencement ceremonies, the largest ever in university history, and the featured speaker, Rebbeca Richards-Kortum, an alumna who was presented with the Bessey medal.

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[00:00:00.150]Thank you Nick, and joined now by the Chancellor
[00:00:02.440]of University of Nebraska Lincoln, Ronnie Green,
[00:00:04.290]we're here on a Sunday afternoon.
[00:00:06.470]Arizona State in town, isn't that strange to see
[00:00:08.840]a team like that up here in Lincoln, Nebraska?
[00:00:10.460]Would be kinda fun to see something like that here in May.
[00:00:12.400]Yeah, it's kinda nice to get
[00:00:13.510]a warm weather team up here, you know,
[00:00:15.280]rather than all of our Big Ten colleagues.
[00:00:18.220]Typically, we get an opportunity to play
[00:00:20.560]those folks a little earlier in the season,
[00:00:22.910]so kinda fun to do it at this point in the season instead,
[00:00:26.510]and usually it's on the road, so to have Arizona State
[00:00:30.930]here at home is a great treat.
[00:00:33.350]Still in the hunt to compete in the Conference Tournament
[00:00:36.190]here in a couple of weeks and I wanna see
[00:00:39.130]our baseball team finish strong,
[00:00:40.730]so looking forward to this series against Arizona State
[00:00:43.630]and finishing up with Michigan here shortly.
[00:00:45.640]Very good, well I wonder if you've come down at all
[00:00:47.570]from your high off last weekend's graduation ceremonies
[00:00:50.120]where you, for the first time you split this
[00:00:51.880]in two Saturday events, can you tell us how all that went?
[00:00:55.560]Well, there's no doubt that the two favorite days
[00:00:58.190]of the year are Commencement and first day of school,
[00:01:01.400]I mean that's just the way it is,
[00:01:02.800]they're bookends of the year for us,
[00:01:04.850]and this was a huge graduation for the university,
[00:01:08.255]the largest in our 150-year history of number of graduates
[00:01:12.420]that we've ever produced.
[00:01:14.295]And sending those graduates out into the world,
[00:01:16.790]to change the world, you know I told them on Saturday
[00:01:19.210]that world is ready for you if you get out there and do it,
[00:01:23.050]but this one was big.
[00:01:24.450]You know, we had 3,490 degrees that were awarded
[00:01:29.253]on Friday and Saturday of last week,
[00:01:32.980]2,794 undergrad degrees and 696 advanced degrees,
[00:01:38.350]PhDs and Masters, professional degrees, law degrees,
[00:01:42.230]all across the board.
[00:01:43.820]And they hailed from all over the place,
[00:01:47.000]we've become a very far-reaching campus,
[00:01:50.500]we had 48 countries represented around the world
[00:01:54.410]in our graduates, 40 states from around the U.S.,
[00:01:58.740]270 different communities across the state of Nebraska
[00:02:02.270]represented in our graduates,
[00:02:03.620]basically all 93 counties in the state,
[00:02:06.890]70 of our Husker athletes earned degrees
[00:02:10.450]in this Commencement ceremony and brought our total
[00:02:13.510]up to 293,000+ number of degrees that the university
[00:02:18.260]has awarded since our founding in 1869.
[00:02:22.140]I'm excited about that, you know, we need to continue
[00:02:24.610]producing talent for Nebraska and beyond,
[00:02:27.690]and as our students come here to get a Big Ten education,
[00:02:30.710]they get a very high quality education here,
[00:02:33.180]and just seeing the joy on their faces across the board
[00:02:36.710]of our graduates and their families,
[00:02:39.350]so many of them here to celebrate this past weekend,
[00:02:42.080]it was really a special weekend.
[00:02:43.830]Fantastic, speaking of special,
[00:02:45.010]I understand you had a very special Commencement speaker,
[00:02:48.110]tell us about that.
[00:02:49.200]Well you know, given that we're celebrating
[00:02:51.440]our 150th year, we've put even more extra thought
[00:02:55.290]into who we wanted to have as our Commencement speaker
[00:02:59.120]for both May and also coming up in August and December
[00:03:02.670]for our Commencements the rest of the year of 2019,
[00:03:06.470]this one was a big deal.
[00:03:08.790]Rebecca Richards-Kortum, who was a native of Grand Island,
[00:03:12.930]grew up in Grand Island, came to the University of Nebraska
[00:03:15.540]at Lincoln where she did her undergrad degree in the 1980s
[00:03:19.520]in physics, majored in physics here,
[00:03:22.840]is one of the world's preeminent bioengineers.
[00:03:25.620]She's currently on the faculty at Rice University,
[00:03:29.270]was on the faculty at the University of Texas in Austin
[00:03:31.810]before that.
[00:03:33.840]She works in bringing technology
[00:03:37.000]to bear on really critical issues like cervical cancer
[00:03:42.180]or pre-term births or oral cancer,
[00:03:46.090]she's one of the leading developers in technology
[00:03:49.230]in those areas.
[00:03:51.492]And when you have to introduce somebody,
[00:03:53.210]you get the opportunity to introduce somebody like I did
[00:03:55.760]on Saturday with her, where she's one of only a handful
[00:04:00.310]of people in the world who is a member of the most
[00:04:03.860]prestigious scientific societies around the world,
[00:04:07.580]from the impact of her work, she's a member of
[00:04:09.290]the National Academy of Engineers,
[00:04:10.900]the National Academy of Sciences,
[00:04:12.530]the National Academy of Inventors,
[00:04:14.420]the Inventors' Hall of Fame, she was just named to that
[00:04:17.070]a week before last in Washington D.C.,
[00:04:19.860]American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
[00:04:21.870]the only thing she's got left to do is win a Nobel Prize,
[00:04:24.120]which I'm guessing she'll do one of these days
[00:04:27.370]in her future, and she just had a phenomenal address.
[00:04:31.220]I'm still getting messages from parents and from graduates
[00:04:35.350]about how meaningful her Commencement speech was,
[00:04:38.670]we also awarded her the Bessey Medal
[00:04:41.920]in honor of Charles Bessey, we've only given three of these
[00:04:45.550]in our 150-year history, and they're given for graduates
[00:04:50.070]who have become preeminent scientists around the world.
[00:04:53.310]Dr. Bessey was actually President of the
[00:04:55.830]American Association of Advancement of Science,
[00:04:58.500]was one of the founders of Science magazine,
[00:05:00.900]the most preeminent publication in the world today,
[00:05:03.380]he was a faculty member here in the 1890s,
[00:05:06.765]and served as Chancellor for a couple different points
[00:05:11.090]of time for our history.
[00:05:12.120]So, we gave her a Bessey Medal,
[00:05:14.370]awarded her one of the three.
[00:05:16.240]The previous two were awarded to Clayton Anderson,
[00:05:19.290]space astronaut, about 10 years ago, and prior to that,
[00:05:23.830]a Nobel Prize winner came to us as an undergraduate student.
[00:05:29.040]So Rebecca was a pleasure to have her here,
[00:05:31.180]she ran a marathon the next day,
[00:05:34.930]just a wonderful weekend celebrating the graduation
[00:05:38.490]of these almost 3,500 new Huskers,
[00:05:41.850]they're gonna go out and change the world.
[00:05:44.130]Fantastic, congratulations on a great graduation ceremony
[00:05:47.370]and enjoy a little bit of downtime
[00:05:48.800]before we get to summer semester.
[00:05:50.780]Downtime, what's that?
[00:05:51.861](laughter)
[00:05:53.400]Ronnie Green with us here
[00:05:54.350]before the final game of the series: Huskers and Sun Devils,
[00:05:57.160]back with a first pitch next from Learfield.
[00:05:59.520]IMG College, this is the Husker Sports Network.

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