Football interview vs. Iowa

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Ronnie Green talks about completing the adjusted fall semester this week, just prior to Thanksgiving, and the successful continuation of research work throughout the current pandemic.

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[00:00:03.230]Welcome back it's Canada kickoff
[00:00:04.670]Huskers getting ready to play their annual
[00:00:06.290]Black Friday game today against the Iowa Hawkeyes.
[00:00:08.780]And as we do each and every week.
[00:00:09.900]A chance to sit down and chat
[00:00:11.480]with the University of Nebraska Lincoln chancellor.
[00:00:13.950]Ronnie Green Thanksgiving now is behind us.
[00:00:16.750]We've started the men's basketball season,
[00:00:18.880]but it does feel kind of normal to me anyway chancellor,
[00:00:22.070]to be playing the Hawkeyes here on Black Friday.
[00:00:24.900]How do you feel about all this?
[00:00:27.267]Well, anytime you can get to a semblance
[00:00:29.930]of something that feels normal in 20 20,
[00:00:34.310]it's a good thing.
[00:00:35.800]So we certainly have a lot to be thankful for
[00:00:38.900]as well as in general this week of Thanksgiving
[00:00:41.280]in just having experienced it
[00:00:43.420]in whatever way we could safely this week
[00:00:46.340]was important for everyone
[00:00:48.660]but to be able to have the Black Friday game
[00:00:51.730]on black Friday against Iowa feels normal, right?
[00:00:56.850]It just, it feels like that's the way it's supposed to be.
[00:00:59.340]And it's so far it's the first normal thing
[00:01:01.440]we've had all football.
[00:01:03.557]Very funny
[00:01:04.390]It's great to have that opportunity on the work
[00:01:07.640]our players and our fans are grateful
[00:01:10.140]to have that opportunity as well.
[00:01:11.890]Any time we can play it's wonderful.
[00:01:14.230]Getting a little basketball started this week as well
[00:01:16.690]with the tournament that we've had
[00:01:19.370]to kind of modify and adjust to as we've come to that
[00:01:23.650]but its good to see that happen in as well
[00:01:26.390]and be at this time of Thanksgiving.
[00:01:29.410]Well, and Thanksgiving is behind us
[00:01:31.780]to add to the not normal.
[00:01:33.640]It's not normal that you have finished your semester
[00:01:36.230]by Thanksgiving but you did do that.
[00:01:39.000]Looking back on the decision to do that,
[00:01:41.240]how do you think it all went?
[00:01:44.020]Well, Greg you know this it's,
[00:01:46.970]odd to feel like we're done with fall semester
[00:01:49.740]at Thanksgiving but we are.
[00:01:51.990]And we did so successfully.
[00:01:54.260]It took a lot of grit a lot of flexibility,
[00:01:57.140]a lot of resilience on the part of
[00:01:59.610]our whole university community of our students certainly
[00:02:03.370]and the adaptation and adjustments they had to make
[00:02:06.750]to the different conditions of COVID-19.
[00:02:10.298]And our faculty who really had to pivot
[00:02:12.840]and make a lot of change in the way that
[00:02:15.040]we operated this semester
[00:02:17.320]and the way classes were taught
[00:02:19.050]and the way they engaged with our students
[00:02:22.060]with our staff running the university.
[00:02:23.900]So it's been a semester to remember
[00:02:26.880]in all kinds of ways but mostly to remember that
[00:02:30.410]we were able to do it successfully
[00:02:32.760]and be able to get to the point of our students
[00:02:34.960]finishing their final exams.
[00:02:36.430]You're right before they broke for the holiday.
[00:02:39.020]And to have that accomplishment finished.
[00:02:42.770]I know it was hard for them
[00:02:44.450]I've had of many many of our students tell us,
[00:02:46.590]tell me this was the hardest semester they've ever had.
[00:02:49.060]I think junior and senior level students the work was hard.
[00:02:52.730]It was challenging and doing it under these circumstances,
[00:02:55.350]but they can be very proud of the fact that they did it
[00:02:58.340]and they accomplished it and the learning continued.
[00:03:01.550]And we were able to do that semblance.
[00:03:04.330]So I'm just excited about that.
[00:03:06.800]We were looking forward now to next week, right?
[00:03:09.910]So next week we will actually start something we've not done
[00:03:14.170]at Nebraska before where we're doing a new session.
[00:03:18.980]Where students would have been in class
[00:03:21.900]after Thanksgiving all the way up
[00:03:24.080]to just prior to Christmas,
[00:03:26.050]when we would have commencements
[00:03:26.883]when we'll have our graduation is this year as well.
[00:03:31.270]But we're taking advantage of this new three week period
[00:03:35.070]to do an intercession.
[00:03:37.050]Where we're offering for the first time classes
[00:03:39.930]for our students to engage in in this case remotely
[00:03:43.710]all on online and remotely or safety site.
[00:03:48.020]But we have about 1400 students enrolled for classes
[00:03:52.210]starting on next week.
[00:03:53.920]And then we're following that right after Christmas
[00:03:57.120]with an additional three weeks session
[00:03:59.490]another offering of classes and a report I got
[00:04:02.960]just before Thanksgiving was we have almost 2,500 students
[00:04:06.700]enrolled in that session for the early part of January.
[00:04:10.970]And then looking forward of course to the 25th of January
[00:04:13.930]when we'll start spring semester back up for another term.
[00:04:18.860]So really, really, really pleased about
[00:04:22.230]the way the fall has gone.
[00:04:24.660]We'll have another big graduating class here
[00:04:26.840]right before Christmas completing their degrees.
[00:04:29.920]And just proud of our students
[00:04:32.510]for the resilience that they have shown
[00:04:35.840]in being able to navigate the times that we're in
[00:04:38.850]and be able to continue their studies
[00:04:40.610]and for many of them graduate and complete their degree
[00:04:45.020]at the university of Nebraska.
[00:04:47.370]That is fantastic great news and good good news to hear
[00:04:49.910]those students who are taking advantage
[00:04:51.270]of those intercession classes
[00:04:52.620]are truly smart on their part.
[00:04:54.530]I want to pivot now chancellor to
[00:04:56.720]university research and how maybe the pandemic
[00:04:59.850]has affected that.
[00:05:01.320]I know, you know you have a world class research lab
[00:05:04.960]that has one of the most powerful lasers in the world.
[00:05:09.280]Tell us a little bit about that.
[00:05:12.860]Well, you know Greg in our tripartite mission
[00:05:17.370]as a land grant university,
[00:05:19.200]where education is as our number one mission
[00:05:23.030]researches and equally important mission for us
[00:05:25.960]research and discovery and innovation.
[00:05:28.200]And then engagement with the citizens of Nebraska
[00:05:30.550]and outreach throughout the state.
[00:05:32.980]our research mission we've worked very very hard
[00:05:36.800]throughout the pandemic back to early this year
[00:05:40.940]to have as little interruption
[00:05:42.980]to our research programs and activities as we could.
[00:05:47.020]Recognizing that many of these programs,
[00:05:49.640]you can't just stop them
[00:05:50.880]without losing a tremendous amount of investment
[00:05:53.750]in that research
[00:05:55.250]and data that's coming forward in that research.
[00:05:58.220]And we've been able to do that pretty successfully.
[00:06:00.540]We've been very pleased about that.
[00:06:03.330]Many of our peers even in the big 10
[00:06:05.330]had to shut down much further in the research efforts
[00:06:09.250]that we chose to do,
[00:06:11.800]and we've been able to continue meeting
[00:06:13.530]that research mission as a result
[00:06:15.370]am very proud of our folks for that.
[00:06:18.080]An example of that is our Diocle laser
[00:06:21.770]in our department of physics and astronomy.
[00:06:24.010]It's one of the most powerful lasers in the world.
[00:06:26.400]The most powerful laser in the U S.
[00:06:29.330]For hub ultra intensity of light
[00:06:32.450]laser research it's in our extreme light laboratory at UNL
[00:06:36.567]and many of our football fans will recognize
[00:06:39.070]the Behlen building and many of them walk by it
[00:06:41.800]when they're coming up west stadium drop
[00:06:43.900]toward the stadium that was renovated here a few years ago
[00:06:47.860]to house that Diocle's laser,
[00:06:50.870]we got news on that front this week,
[00:06:52.798]this past week where we are one of three
[00:06:56.950]big 10 institutions participating in what's called
[00:07:00.670]the LaserNet research group around the country.
[00:07:05.687]$18 million of additional funding was just put out
[00:07:09.820]to this LaserNet group that we kind of helped anchor
[00:07:13.240]with the Diocle's laser for the next three-year period.
[00:07:17.130]Very excited about that
[00:07:19.460]and about the benefit that it will be to that program.
[00:07:22.400]And moving forward to put it in context for folks
[00:07:25.900]this LaserNet group and the Diocle's laser
[00:07:28.590]were in the group with Stanford, with Michigan,
[00:07:32.150]with these very high profile research institutions
[00:07:35.480]that we're a part of.
[00:07:36.600]In this case Stanford came to us.
[00:07:38.620]We didn't go to Stanford where we lead in this area.
[00:07:43.110]I'm just proud of that work.
[00:07:44.680]And pleased for their most recent funding
[00:07:47.220]that is coming to them
[00:07:49.300]whereas like much of our research
[00:07:51.340]it's impacted striving the world
[00:07:53.200]and in this case in a high energy physics.
[00:07:57.690]Very good thank you so much for sharing that with us.
[00:08:00.270]Let's have some fun today
[00:08:01.860]let's hope the Huskers can prevail.
[00:08:03.980]We look forward to our chat next week
[00:08:05.340]before the Purdue game.
[00:08:07.971]So we're certainly looking forward to a good day.
[00:08:09.714]We'll pull on for our Huskers
[00:08:11.410]and hope for a win in Iowa city go big red.
[00:08:15.750]Ronnie Green with us here on countdown kickoff.
[00:08:17.940]Matt Courtney's up next with a look at the big 10.
[00:08:20.570]It's our big 10 blitz coming up.

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