Football interview vs. South Alabama

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09/04/2019 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about the new Johnny Carson Emerging Media Arts Center opening with the start of the fall semester and the dynamic connections the program has to industry leaders around the world.

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[00:00:00.000](upbeat music)
[00:00:01.400]Welcome back, Countdown to Kickoff.
[00:00:02.700]Huskers' ready to launch the 2019 season today against the
[00:00:06.630]South Alabama Jaguars,
[00:00:08.190]and delighted to be joined as we will
[00:00:09.850]each and every week during our pregame show
[00:00:11.530]by University of Nebraska Lincoln Chancellor,
[00:00:13.460]Ronnie Green.
[00:00:14.660]Last day of August, so you survived August,
[00:00:17.030]class in underway now.
[00:00:18.390]Now we're minutes away from a kickoff.
[00:00:20.530]You ready for all this?
[00:00:21.520]Oh, absolutely, Greg.
[00:00:23.020]You know I've been waiting for this for a long time.
[00:00:24.760]You know, the start of the school year's
[00:00:26.280]gone off with a with a bang this week.
[00:00:28.370]Getting students back in,
[00:00:29.860]and faculty back in and
[00:00:31.820]a great kickoff to the school year for UNL,
[00:00:35.310]and leading up to this opening game
[00:00:37.750]and opening kickoff today has been exciting to think about.
[00:00:41.760]Lots of anticipation everywhere,
[00:00:43.660]I mean, we just feel it in the air.
[00:00:45.980]First football game of the year.
[00:00:47.950]People been counting it down
[00:00:49.220]by the hour and the minute, you know, to get here.
[00:00:52.600]I think we have an excitement ahead for us,
[00:00:55.670]we have an idea of kind of what to expect
[00:00:57.500]from a quarterback and the offense,
[00:00:59.310]and I'm excited to see the how the defense
[00:01:01.670]defense and the special teams perform, as well
[00:01:04.220]and I know the whole state and Husker Nation
[00:01:06.520]is excited about today.
[00:01:08.550]Hoping for no storms, you know it,
[00:01:10.310]remembering back to the big kickoff last year
[00:01:13.360]of Coach Frost's first game,
[00:01:14.970]and all the anticipation and excitement about that and
[00:01:19.150]the tunnel walk was something to remember for all of us,
[00:01:21.920]you know, and then that kick,
[00:01:23.980]and then we know the rest of the history, right?
[00:01:28.140]You just couldn't make that up.
[00:01:29.800]So, hoping for no storms today
[00:01:32.290]and for a great game.
[00:01:33.980]And then, you know,
[00:01:34.950]it's not only football that we're kicking off this weekend.
[00:01:38.670]We also kicked off officially our volleyball season.
[00:01:42.020]After a great Red-White Scrimmage a week ago
[00:01:44.160]with a full, you know, another full practice, so to speak,
[00:01:48.240]with Creighton, UCLA, and Baylor in town.
[00:01:51.410]And then, Women's Soccer
[00:01:53.300]had their opener last night
[00:01:55.240]against Clemson, as well.
[00:01:56.390]So, nothing quite like liking at the beginning of
[00:01:59.290]a Huskers sports season, and today's a big day.
[00:02:02.590]Oh, we're loving having everybody come back to town.
[00:02:04.690]Loved seeing all the folks come back into Lincoln,
[00:02:06.520]see what's changed since last football season.
[00:02:08.910]All right, new academic year, new fall sport season.
[00:02:12.640]You have a signature academic program
[00:02:14.720]that has launched this fall with Johnny Carson's name
[00:02:18.270]attached to it, tell us about this.
[00:02:20.550]Well, it is really, really exciting,
[00:02:22.720]and we've been working toward
[00:02:24.350]the opening of this new Carson Center
[00:02:26.430]for Emerging Media Arts over the last four years.
[00:02:30.090]From when the gift from the Johnny Carson Foundation
[00:02:33.320]was announced in 2015
[00:02:35.890]to plan toward being able to open this new center,
[00:02:38.870]which we did this week
[00:02:40.810]with the beginning of the school year.
[00:02:43.180]A 20 million dollar gift
[00:02:44.880]from our famous alumn, Johhny Carson,
[00:02:47.840]from Northfolk, Nebraska.
[00:02:49.700]A student here at the University of Nebraska,
[00:02:53.040]and as Johnny supported the university in a lot of ways
[00:02:56.560]during his life and the Carson Foundation
[00:02:59.740]made this gift to really
[00:03:02.430]plow new ground in emerging media arts.
[00:03:06.220]It's now in the former Nebraska bookstore
[00:03:09.750]at 13th and Q Streets,
[00:03:12.200]just on the south side of our campus.
[00:03:14.780]Facility opened this week,
[00:03:16.790]and the first cohort of students,
[00:03:18.730]33 students now are in this program
[00:03:21.160]for the first class coming in
[00:03:23.790]as a premiere destination
[00:03:25.600]for creating transformative creative leaders
[00:03:29.730]with best students, entrepreneurs, visiting scientists
[00:03:33.940]from around the world as part of this effort to produce
[00:03:37.240]the storytellers of the future.
[00:03:39.300]It's the aim of the program
[00:03:42.500]for really what are even for us now
[00:03:45.620]unimaginable new careers in the media industry
[00:03:48.900]as it changes.
[00:03:50.850]We're also very excited that the program
[00:03:54.050]won a Hewlett Packard/Educause
[00:03:55.840]Campus of the Future designation,
[00:03:58.170]the first in the Big Ten to be recognized this way,
[00:04:01.640]and to work in this partnership with HP
[00:04:05.570]for investigating ways to bring in augmented reality,
[00:04:09.410]virtual reality, 3D scanning and printing technologies
[00:04:13.030]that can benefit teaching, learning, and research
[00:04:15.380]in a way in this new Center,
[00:04:17.160]puts us in some pretty stout company
[00:04:20.070]with MIT, with Yale,
[00:04:22.240]Harvard, and Dartmouth
[00:04:24.340]who have this kinds of relationships with HP.
[00:04:27.350]So, we're pretty excited to be in that category.
[00:04:31.060]Excited about the new faculty who have joined the program,
[00:04:34.790]Ash Smith and Jesse Fleming, our two new faculty
[00:04:38.320]who have come from Stanford,
[00:04:40.300]and from The Design Lab at Hyundai,
[00:04:42.880]and Megan Elliott who is our inaugural director.
[00:04:46.640]Megan has been with us the last couple of years,
[00:04:48.760]and building this center.
[00:04:51.025]She's pretty hard to contain
[00:04:53.210]in her own energy and enthusiasm
[00:04:55.110]for everyone that has met her.
[00:04:56.600]Megan's worked in Beijing, and London, and Sydney,
[00:04:59.210]Singapore, Paris, and is a real name
[00:05:02.080]in this industry who is leading and kicking off this effort,
[00:05:04.980]so very, very, very excited about the new
[00:05:06.810]Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.
[00:05:09.160]Oh, and rightfully so.
[00:05:10.080]So, the support from the Johnny Carson Foundation
[00:05:12.810]made this possible.
[00:05:13.643]You mentioned Megan's the director, and hired the faculty,
[00:05:16.210]but I don't think people get the full picture of just
[00:05:18.330]how unique this Carson Center is
[00:05:20.350]until you know who
[00:05:21.340]is among the network of
[00:05:23.340]advisory board members.
[00:05:24.720]Can you tell us about some of the folks
[00:05:25.800]that Megan's gonna be working with?
[00:05:27.090]Yeah, I remember
[00:05:29.280]about a year ago I met many of the folks
[00:05:32.100]on this advisory board for the first time.
[00:05:34.230]We actually were meeting in LA,
[00:05:37.240]in Hollywood with this group
[00:05:40.690]that are helping to provide advising
[00:05:42.700]and capacity around how to build this program,
[00:05:45.240]and how to make it really unique,
[00:05:46.580]and it includes a who's who in new and emerging media.
[00:05:50.060]And I can't list them all, but just to give you an example
[00:05:53.460]of some of the folks that are involved,
[00:05:55.140]Alex McDowell,
[00:05:56.500]if you remember the film, Minority Report,
[00:05:59.520]he worked on that,
[00:06:00.680]known as the best narrative designer
[00:06:02.590]of his generation in media.
[00:06:05.000]Susan Bonds who's a former Disney Imagineer,
[00:06:08.750]invented the genre of
[00:06:10.210]alternate reality games.
[00:06:13.840]Jeff Nicholas who's a virtual reality visionary,
[00:06:17.010]has directed videos of Rihanna and for Justin Timberlake.
[00:06:20.990]Maureen Fan, CEO of Baobab Studios,
[00:06:25.540]the industry's leading virtual reality animation
[00:06:28.850]studio in this space.
[00:06:31.020]Sean Stewart, Creative Director for Magic Leap,
[00:06:33.680]and a New York Times bestselling author of science fiction.
[00:06:37.440]Nonny de la Peña, she's the CEO of the Emblematic Group,
[00:06:41.590]acknowledged as the godmother of virtual reality,
[00:06:44.050]you get the idea.
[00:06:44.970]I mean, these are the leaders in this space,
[00:06:48.560]who are advising,
[00:06:50.130]on working with us to build this new center,
[00:06:53.160]and to one that's truly internationally prominent.
[00:06:55.860]That is fantastic.
[00:06:56.760]Thank you so much for sharing all that with us here today.
[00:06:59.070]It's so fun to be back at the stadium,
[00:07:00.930]and getting ready, get you a runs in,
[00:07:02.810]settle in and enjoy this game today.
[00:07:04.660]Oh, absolutely I can't hardly wait.
[00:07:07.668]And I know everybody feels that way,
[00:07:09.450]and we're looking forward to a big victory
[00:07:11.490]today against South Alabama.
[00:07:12.820]Go Big Red!
[00:07:13.653]Very good, Ronnie Green with us here on
[00:07:15.100]Countdown to Kickoff.
[00:07:15.960]When we come back, Matt Coatney will
[00:07:17.730]check out the Big Ten blitz.
[00:07:18.762]That's next.

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