Football interview vs. Northern Illinois

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Ronnie Green talks about traveling to Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island and the university's strengths in research that advances precision agriculture. Ronnie also talks about a new grant that will help the university help prepare more students to develop their talent and skills in STEM areas and expand the workforce in Nebraska.

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[00:00:00.440](upbeat rock music)
[00:00:01.273]We welcome you back to
[00:00:02.106]Count Down to Kick Off here on the Husker Sports Network.
[00:00:03.960]Tonight the Big Red back home to take on Northern Illinois.
[00:00:06.690]In fact all of the Husker teams are back home this weekend.
[00:00:10.430]The Ameritas Classic with volleyball
[00:00:11.840]wrapped up earlier today.
[00:00:13.060]Soccer had a home match last night, another one tomorrow,
[00:00:16.320]and as we do each and every week,
[00:00:17.410]a chance to sit down with
[00:00:18.300]University of Nebraska Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green,
[00:00:20.780]and yeah it's great to have these teams back home,
[00:00:23.040]but before we jump into
[00:00:23.930]that I just want to get your thoughts again
[00:00:25.710]about the amazing incredible turn out last week
[00:00:29.220]out in Boulder of Husker fans
[00:00:31.040]that came out to cheer on that team.
[00:00:32.480]They just absolutely took that stadium over.
[00:00:34.853]Oh it was a really amazing thing
[00:00:37.500]to see all of that Red in Folsom Field.
[00:00:41.448]Its a beautiful setting there.
[00:00:43.040]You know watching a football game
[00:00:44.580]in that setting is always a beautiful sight,
[00:00:47.610]but to see that many Huskers who traveled
[00:00:50.130]and kind of took over Boulder in the front range
[00:00:53.100]to support our football team
[00:00:55.020]and our athletic programs is a really special thing.
[00:00:59.389]The game didn't quite turn our the way we wanted it
[00:01:01.610]to turn out in the end,
[00:01:02.909]but it was a great Husker Nation turn out.
[00:01:06.840]Somebody was joking, I saw it online during the game.
[00:01:10.930]I think it was Senator Ben Sasse actually,
[00:01:14.240]congratulated the University of Nebraska
[00:01:16.390]for being the only school in the country
[00:01:17.930]to have a home stadium in the Big Ten and in the Pac-12.
[00:01:21.920]I said well maybe the other four conferences too you know.
[00:01:24.830]Throw the other, all the power five in there,
[00:01:27.530]but, no, it was a really great traveling weekend.
[00:01:30.995]Thanks to all the Husker fans
[00:01:31.840]who made the trip to get out there.
[00:01:33.290]Well it is good to have all teams back in Lincoln.
[00:01:35.370]We love having our teams compete in their home venues.
[00:01:38.600]Oh we do.
[00:01:39.560]We've got basketball kind of
[00:01:40.840]kicking off their opening night coming up here
[00:01:42.730]on the 27th at PBA, gearing up for that season.
[00:01:48.010]And to have soccer playing at Hibner,
[00:01:50.136]and Volleyball playing at Devaney.
[00:01:52.890]We have some of the greatest venues in college sports.
[00:01:56.490]We were talking to the student athletes
[00:01:58.340]this past Sunday night.
[00:01:59.880]We have an annual student athlete meeting
[00:02:02.130]and we talked about how the fact
[00:02:04.450]that in Husker athletics we have the biggest going crowd
[00:02:09.380]in terms of Husker Nation of any institution
[00:02:11.960]in the country when you look at us across all sports.
[00:02:14.307]Its just a phenomenal thing.
[00:02:16.860]Well you got back from Boulder,
[00:02:18.870]but you didn't hunker down in Lincoln all week.
[00:02:21.260]You made your way out to Grand Island
[00:02:22.720]for Husker Harvest Days
[00:02:23.860]which is a big farm show here in the state.
[00:02:26.440]Well Husker Harvest Days is both a technical kind
[00:02:30.200]of trade show, where people in the agricultural community
[00:02:33.200]come together and see the latest technology
[00:02:35.290]and the newest developments in Ag out at Grand Island.
[00:02:38.780]West of Grand Island every year,
[00:02:40.540]and this year was another big event for Husker Harvest Days.
[00:02:44.320]A lot of Nebraskans
[00:02:45.680]and people from all over the region were there.
[00:02:48.770]UNL of course, is a leading research institution
[00:02:52.900]in the Ag space especially
[00:02:54.830]and Ag and natural resources,
[00:02:56.740]where Ag is kind of the center of the universe here.
[00:03:00.210]We're the center of the universe
[00:03:01.550]for agriculture in Nebraska.
[00:03:03.772]A lot of work and precision agriculture.
[00:03:07.550]Just around the kinds of technology
[00:03:09.490]that folks were seeing at the Husker Harvest Days.
[00:03:12.250]We have a big robotic pheno typing program
[00:03:14.970]that's housed out at Nebraska Innovation Campus.
[00:03:17.270]When you're driving down Salt Creek Roadway,
[00:03:19.040]you see those purple green houses at night,
[00:03:23.460]that's one of the world's leading places
[00:03:25.900]for what's called robotic pheno typing in plants
[00:03:28.900]for full scale and commercial agriculture.
[00:03:30.916]Its a very valuable research area for us.
[00:03:34.880]We've got work going on in things like Fitbit for corn.
[00:03:39.120]One of our leading plant biology groups
[00:03:42.063]have developed a Fitbit like sensor to be worn by corn
[00:03:45.920]and other kind of thick stemmed crops
[00:03:48.200]that measures the rate of sap flow,
[00:03:51.010]water flow, in real time and in actual fields
[00:03:54.450]and in changing weather conditions
[00:03:55.980]so we can get more and more precise about the crop.
[00:03:59.612]More crop per drop so to speak.
[00:04:02.740]So the university for a long time
[00:04:06.700]has been an international leader in this field
[00:04:08.960]and of course Husker Harvest Days this past week
[00:04:11.610]with all our Ag community in the state
[00:04:13.630]was an important event for agriculture in Nebraska.
[00:04:18.380]Getting busy with
[00:04:19.213]University of Nebraska Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green
[00:04:21.050]here on Count Down To Kick Off.
[00:04:22.910]Big even out there in Grand Island, Husker Harvest Days.
[00:04:24.980]University made some news recently
[00:04:26.700]with an important new program that will make life better
[00:04:28.820]for students and employers across the state.
[00:04:31.330]What can you tell us about that?
[00:04:33.360]Well Greg, we did make an announcement
[00:04:35.430]a little over a week ago of a new grant
[00:04:38.490]that has come to the University of Nebraska Lincoln,
[00:04:41.260]in the STEM work force area, science,
[00:04:43.390]technology, engineering, mathematics, high tech,
[00:04:47.180]that is going to help us prepare more students
[00:04:51.120]for this area in the work force for this area.
[00:04:55.040]Its a five year 3.6 million dollar grant
[00:04:58.410]from the National Science Foundation
[00:05:00.650]that's going to allow us more than 120,
[00:05:03.320]low income Nebraska students
[00:05:05.196]to benefit from studying in science,
[00:05:08.370]technology, engineering, and math.
[00:05:11.370]Its a partnership effort with South East Community College,
[00:05:15.240]and with Western Nebraska Community College
[00:05:17.410]out in the panhandle, where we'll be working
[00:05:20.180]with academically gifted low income students
[00:05:23.116]to help them enter this area
[00:05:26.230]to go into the work force after they graduate,
[00:05:29.260]finish their degrees.
[00:05:31.040]Jim Lewis is the leader of that.
[00:05:33.010]Jim is as faculty member in our department of mathematics
[00:05:35.910]in the College of Arts and Sciences on campus.
[00:05:38.840]He's been a leader in this area,
[00:05:41.410]nationally and internationally for a long time.
[00:05:44.010]He directs what's called the Center For Computer Science
[00:05:47.400]and Math Education on our campus
[00:05:49.720]that's a national leader in this arena.
[00:05:53.400]And he's the leader of this effort together
[00:05:56.620]with South East and Western Nebraska Community College.
[00:06:00.570]Students will be starting in it this coming spring.
[00:06:03.900]We'll have six to eight students in the first cohort
[00:06:07.050]that will receive funding to be supported under the effort
[00:06:10.340]with 20 more students to start in the fall of 2020
[00:06:14.780]for a total of 32 additional students to receive
[00:06:17.700]that scholarship going into fall 2020.
[00:06:21.180]So important area for us.
[00:06:24.800]Growth of the STEM work force we know
[00:06:27.000]is a critically important area for the state,
[00:06:32.300]and this is a big grant.
[00:06:33.800]A big opportunity for the University to contribute
[00:06:36.810]in even greater ways.
[00:06:37.910]Fantastic, thank you so much for sharing
[00:06:39.570]that exciting news with us here as well.
[00:06:41.620]Great to be back home, let's go have some fun tonight.
[00:06:43.560]Let's go get a win.
[00:06:44.810]Go Big Red, beat the Huskies.
[00:06:46.510]Ronnie Green with us on here on Count Down to Kick Off.

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