Men's basketball vs. Indiana

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Ronnie Green talks about three faculty members named as fellows to AAAS, one of the highest honors awarded to professors in the sciences. Ronnie also talks about the hire of Elizabeth Spiller to the role of Executive Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs.

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[00:00:01.300]Welcome back, it's halftime.
[00:00:02.380]Greg Sharpe in our Husker Network Studios,
[00:00:04.170]joined now by the Chancellor at the
[00:00:05.730]University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:08.130]Well, the university did get some recent
[00:00:09.996]really good news about three faculty members
[00:00:12.810]who have been recognized by their scientific peers
[00:00:15.250]around the world for their work.
[00:00:17.200]Can you tell us about these faculty members
[00:00:19.010]and what this honor means for the university?
[00:00:21.350]Well Greg, one of the biggest honors that can come
[00:00:24.840]to a faculty member in the sciences is to be named
[00:00:29.040]a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
[00:00:31.840]of Science, it's the national premiere international
[00:00:35.280]organization of scientists in the world.
[00:00:39.409]They publish Science magazine, which is the most recognized
[00:00:43.070]science publication in the world.
[00:00:45.220]It's prestigious to have an article in Science
[00:00:48.060]published in Science and they recognize
[00:00:51.060]a very small percentage of their membership
[00:00:54.210]with the designation of fellow.
[00:00:57.050]And that awarding is done this time of year.
[00:00:59.770]We just found out here a few weeks ago
[00:01:02.730]that three of our faculty members at UNL
[00:01:06.130]are in this year's class of being
[00:01:09.260]named a fellow in AAAS.
[00:01:11.740]Huge honor for all three of them.
[00:01:15.250]You know I was a fellow myself a few years ago
[00:01:17.970]and I remember the feeling of what that meant
[00:01:21.810]when I got that notice.
[00:01:23.770]So I know they feel that very same way.
[00:01:26.830]And very proud of each of them.
[00:01:28.270]Ed Cahoon, who is a professor in our biochemistry department
[00:01:32.800]and the Institute of Agri/Natural resources.
[00:01:35.270]He's also the leader, the director of our Center
[00:01:38.170]for Plant Science Innovation at the university,
[00:01:40.420]one of our leading research centers.
[00:01:42.840]Internationally known in plant science research.
[00:01:47.200]Ed is actually a lipid biochemist, works on oil seeds.
[00:01:51.680]And we've actually talk about him on several shows
[00:01:54.940]where some of his discoveries over the last year.
[00:01:59.930]Nebraskasinic Acid, if you remember, a work that he's done
[00:02:04.910]in China, so Ed--
[00:02:06.810]And on a personal note here, Ed and I are actually
[00:02:08.990]distantly related.
[00:02:10.040]He's a distant cousin.
[00:02:11.800]I grew up in Virginia, my mother was a Cahoon,
[00:02:14.450]so when I got here I found out Ed Cahoon was on the faculty
[00:02:17.890]so, a big honor for Ed.
[00:02:20.900]Tom Clemente, who is a long time professor in our
[00:02:24.400]department of Agronomy and Horticulture, also a part
[00:02:26.900]of the Center for Plant Science Innovation.
[00:02:29.150]A molecular geneticist, works with soy beans
[00:02:33.010]and with corn and with other species.
[00:02:35.250]Is well known as one of the people that developed
[00:02:37.300]the gene delivery mechanism for targeted gene introduction
[00:02:41.030]in the plants, so big honor for Tom.
[00:02:43.660]And then Eileen Hebets, who is a professor in our
[00:02:46.470]School of Biological Sciences.
[00:02:48.720]Eileen is a well known arachnid,
[00:02:50.950]that means spider biologist.
[00:02:53.840]One of our leading teachers on the campus,
[00:02:56.200]also a leading researcher in neuro-signaling in spiders.
[00:03:02.070]So, big honor for Eileen as well.
[00:03:04.700]Her husband Jay, was named a fellow last year to AAAS.
[00:03:10.000]He's also a member of our School of Biological Sciences
[00:03:12.770]faculty, so just tremendous honor and recognition
[00:03:15.870]for these three faculty members adding to the
[00:03:19.790]story and history of AAAS fellows that the
[00:03:22.490]University of Nebraska has contributed to the
[00:03:25.130]American Association for the Advancement of Science.
[00:03:27.860]Well congratulations to all of them.
[00:03:29.260]You also have some good news regarding the recruitment
[00:03:31.130]of a new academic leader to the campus.
[00:03:33.750]How does this feel going into a new year with
[00:03:35.830]this search now behind you?
[00:03:37.370]Well, we had the opportunity to look for a new
[00:03:40.820]Executive Vice Chancellor.
[00:03:42.210]Many of our listeners will remember Donde Plowman,
[00:03:45.930]who served as the Executive Vice Chancellor
[00:03:48.320]for the last three and a half years, recently became
[00:03:50.500]the chancellor of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
[00:03:53.920]So we've been searching since middle of this year
[00:03:57.170]to find the new Executive Vice Chancellor for
[00:04:00.320]academic affairs, it's the number two position at the
[00:04:02.780]University of Nebraska-Lincoln, leads all of our
[00:04:05.100]academic programs and a very critically important
[00:04:09.260]position for our campus.
[00:04:11.680]And we were very, very pleased this past week
[00:04:14.760]to announce that our top candidate, lead candidate
[00:04:17.940]from that search, Dr. Elizabeth Spiller is being named
[00:04:22.230]to that position.
[00:04:23.370]She'll be joining us in March from her current role
[00:04:27.470]where she serves as the Dean at the
[00:04:29.170]College of Arts and Sciences at the
[00:04:30.353]University of California Davis, the largest single college,
[00:04:35.080]the college she oversees, is the largest single college
[00:04:38.730]anywhere in the University of California system.
[00:04:42.700]Elizabeth is a well known scholar, actually in
[00:04:45.880]renaissance literature herself.
[00:04:47.610]Her background is in renaissance literature.
[00:04:50.020]But she's been an accomplished administrator
[00:04:52.050]at Florida State University, at Virginia Tech,
[00:04:54.590]my alma mater, where she was Dean of the
[00:04:57.870]College of Liberal Arts at Virginia Tech and most recently,
[00:05:00.860]these last several years at the
[00:05:02.110]University of California Davis.
[00:05:04.640]Hold degrees from Harvard, her graduate work
[00:05:07.940]was done at Harvard and her Bachelors Degree
[00:05:10.530]was done at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
[00:05:12.890]A native of Massachusetts and we're gonna make
[00:05:14.860]a Nebraskan out of her when she and her husband
[00:05:18.620]join us here in March.
[00:05:19.690]So very, very excited about Elizabeth
[00:05:22.490]and the leadership that we know she is going to bring
[00:05:24.900]to the university and leading our academic enterprise
[00:05:27.240]here pretty soon.
[00:05:28.300]Fantastic, Ronnie Green with us here at halftime.
[00:05:30.380]Kent and Jake are back with more in the second half, next.

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