Football interview vs. Purdue

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Ronnie Green talks about the Huskers' record high graduation success rate and faculty recently recognized as AAAS fellows. Ronnie also talks about the latest in corn breeding research at the university.

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[00:00:00.294](upbeat music)
[00:00:02.780]And we're back here on Canada, kickoff Huskers
[00:00:04.790]today set to take on the Purdue Boilermakers.
[00:00:07.220]And as we do each and every week, a chance to catch up
[00:00:09.230]with the chancellor, from the university of Nebraska,
[00:00:11.130]Lincoln Ronnie Green, and getting ready for some football
[00:00:13.760]action here today.
[00:00:14.650]But I know you've recently received some good news
[00:00:16.870]chancellor about Nebraska student athletes
[00:00:19.260]and their performance
[00:00:20.151]in the classroom, how the Husker's has been doing
[00:00:24.522][chancellor Ronnie Green] Well, Greg,
[00:00:25.355]it is a great to be back
[00:00:26.570]in West Lafayette today and have the chance to play the
[00:00:29.270]Birdie Boilermakers and been great to see our
[00:00:31.520]basketball team, off to a great start in the men's team
[00:00:35.210]and these few games that they've been able to get
[00:00:37.440]under their belt and great to see our athletes competing
[00:00:41.070]and not only on the field or on the court
[00:00:44.130]but also competing nationally, academically.
[00:00:48.100]We received really good news in Husker athletics here.
[00:00:51.260]A few weeks ago, I went the graduation success rates
[00:00:55.060]were published by the NCAA for this past year.
[00:00:58.890]And for the eighth year in a row
[00:01:01.219]Husker athletics has achieved its highest
[00:01:04.190]all student athlete great puts us
[00:01:07.120]as the third highest public institution
[00:01:09.970]in the power five schools on the national scale.
[00:01:13.580]In that statistic and tied
[00:01:15.850]for second in the big 10, only behind Northwestern.
[00:01:19.560]So very pleased with that result for our student athletes
[00:01:23.550]13 of our athletic team programs that feed the
[00:01:27.270]perfect 100% graduation success rate span
[00:01:31.860]in basketball, gymnastics, tennis rifle, cough, software
[00:01:36.290]softball, swimming, and diving and volleyballs.
[00:01:40.226]So very, very proud of them.
[00:01:42.910]Our women's basketball, women's tennis
[00:01:45.250]and volleyball teams have had a perfect GSR in each
[00:01:49.170]of the 16 years that it's been computed by the NCAA.
[00:01:53.430]So a great hallmark of achievement for all of those teams.
[00:01:58.230]The GSR actually what it measures.
[00:02:01.020]It allows for a six year window
[00:02:03.210]in which a student athlete can earn his
[00:02:05.490]or her degree from the time they start competition.
[00:02:09.367]And just could, can't be prouder of our student athletes
[00:02:13.640]and our teams for their success in the classroom
[00:02:16.642]as well as on the field, on the court and in the arena.
[00:02:20.407][Presenter] Oh, that's fantastic.
[00:02:21.240]Thank you so much for sharing that with us.
[00:02:23.010]Well, the university also received some good news recently
[00:02:26.090]about four faculty members.
[00:02:27.820]Who've been recognized by their scientific peers
[00:02:30.820]around the world for their work, who are these members
[00:02:34.300]and receiving these prestigious honors when one of the
[00:02:36.810]all that mean chancellor for the university?
[00:02:40.079][chancellor Ronnie Green] Well, one of Greg, one
[00:02:41.570]of the things that we've seen a real increase
[00:02:43.690]in at the university of Nebraska in recent years
[00:02:45.990]I was just reviewing this past week.
[00:02:47.680]This year's release of data
[00:02:50.350]for universities all across the country.
[00:02:52.620]And one of the things we've been recognized
[00:02:54.490]for in recent years is the increase
[00:02:56.900]in our number of national and international recognitions
[00:03:00.870]of our faculty and the quality of those faculty.
[00:03:03.940]And one of the biggest awards that a faculty member
[00:03:07.000]in the sciences can achieve is to be named a fellow
[00:03:10.820]of the American association for the advancement of science
[00:03:14.010]but the national and the US
[00:03:16.203]and the leading international organization
[00:03:19.480]of scientists across all disciplines, about 1%
[00:03:24.960]of the AAA's members or scientists
[00:03:27.740]across the U S are ultimately named a fellow of the society.
[00:03:33.560]This year,
[00:03:34.393]UNL was very proud of the fact
[00:03:36.950]that four of our faculty helping named AAAS fellows
[00:03:40.830]in recognition of the stature of their work collectively,
[00:03:45.242]they include Craig Allen, who is a professor
[00:03:48.570]in our school of natural resources
[00:03:50.820]on the colleges or it's in the area of resilience,
[00:03:53.370]and natural environments was the former director
[00:03:56.770]of our US fish and wildlife cooperative research unit
[00:04:00.460]on the campus and is now in the faculty
[00:04:03.410]of the school of natural resources, a rock, the swab
[00:04:07.640]who is a professor of agronomy and horticulture
[00:04:10.040]in our Institute of ag and natural resources, a turf grass
[00:04:15.100]scientists he's established his career
[00:04:16.870]and expertise in that area.
[00:04:19.480]He also was the former head for a number of years
[00:04:23.090]of Ark bark department of agronomy and horticulture
[00:04:25.750]the largest department of any department
[00:04:27.920]across all of the university of Nebraska.
[00:04:30.930]He also was president
[00:04:32.040]of the crop science society of America a few years ago
[00:04:35.100]highly recognized by his peers, Kristen Olson, a professor
[00:04:39.810]in our sociology department isle well-known internationally
[00:04:43.356]in the area of survey research methodology
[00:04:46.354]as the director of our Bureau of survey research
[00:04:51.000]the towels out of our department of sociology.
[00:04:53.470]So being recognized for her contributions in that field
[00:04:57.130]and Tim Cocottes, who is a longtime professor
[00:04:59.780]of chemistry and our department of chemistry and the college
[00:05:02.490]of arts and sciences for his distinguished contributions
[00:05:06.210]to synthetic organic chemistry.
[00:05:08.640]Jim also is currently the leader
[00:05:11.250]of one of our biggest research projects
[00:05:14.138]on campus in bowel molecular signaling and communication.
[00:05:18.730]So congratulations to these four
[00:05:21.750]they join additional faculty who had been named
[00:05:24.120]over the past number of years
[00:05:26.500]as AAAS fellows actually had the honor
[00:05:29.820]of myself with begin being named five years ago
[00:05:32.710]to that and have a special place
[00:05:34.610]in my heart for what that recognition means
[00:05:38.450]to our faculty and to their statures.
[00:05:41.150]So congratulations to Craig, Rob, Kristin
[00:05:44.360]and Jim on this big honor.
[00:05:46.560]Oh, that's fantastic.
[00:05:47.610]Congratulations. All four of them.
[00:05:49.300]and that is awesome for them.
[00:05:50.930]and in gray reflects greatly
[00:05:52.560]on the university.
[00:05:53.460]Well chancellor it's only right,
[00:05:55.580]that in the corn Husker state
[00:05:56.620]the land university is a leading researcher
[00:05:59.300]in all things corn.
[00:06:00.950]So tell us what is the latest research study showing
[00:06:03.220]about potential improvements in corn breeding?
[00:06:07.718][chancellor Ronnie Green] Well, you know,
[00:06:09.092]we have had a long history at the university
[00:06:12.120]of Nebraska going way back to our founder, but 18, mid 18
[00:06:16.550]late 18 hundreds in the area of agronomy and crop science.
[00:06:21.232]And a lot of that has been centered
[00:06:24.050]over the years and corn breeding or bays breeding
[00:06:27.400]as it's known in the scientific fields.
[00:06:30.314]Recently, one of our, our professors out
[00:06:34.540]of the department of agronomy and horticulture
[00:06:36.980]Gin Lang Yon published work that was important
[00:06:41.440]in this field where they were able to identify how
[00:06:45.989]genes have been turned on and off between ancient corn.
[00:06:50.110]Corn actually was originated 9,000 years ago
[00:06:54.130]and Southern Mexico, and has evolved and has been bred
[00:06:58.250]over the years since to
[00:07:00.240]to dramatically improve its productivity and this discovery
[00:07:04.770]of how these deans have been regulated
[00:07:06.880]and changed between ancient corn
[00:07:09.410]and current current varieties and strains of corn
[00:07:15.242]give us insight into how we can speed that process up.
[00:07:20.030]So without going too deep into the science that the big deal
[00:07:23.210]and Dr Young's work that was recently published is
[00:07:26.862]is an outstanding example of the
[00:07:29.614]the level of research that happens at your university.
[00:07:33.700]And we're very proud of that
[00:07:35.270]proud of the work that they're doing
[00:07:36.620]and what that will lead to our ability to even
[00:07:39.170]further improve corn and others, other crops, species
[00:07:43.540]into the future to help feed the world that is around.
[00:07:46.915]Oh, fantastic.
[00:07:47.870]What a great update chancellor.
[00:07:49.030]Thank you so much.
[00:07:49.880]Enjoy the game today.
[00:07:51.020]We'll talk next week back in Lincoln.
[00:07:53.775][chancellor Ronnie Green] You bet.
[00:07:54.608]And go big red.
[00:07:55.800]There he is Chancellor Ronnie Green
[00:07:57.851]with us here on Canada kickoff.
[00:07:58.900]Matt Coton is up next with a look around the big 10.
[00:08:01.300]It's our big 10 blitz.

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