Women's basketball vs. Iowa
Ronnie Green
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02/17/2021
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Ronnie Green talks about the College of Engineering and the new Kiewit Scholars Progam and scholarship.
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- [00:00:01.350]Half-time the Huskers in Iowa tonight
- [00:00:04.140]and we are very pleased again
- [00:00:05.970]to welcome chancellor Ronnie Green,
- [00:00:08.240]and chancellor its a busy time of year
- [00:00:10.040]I know you have the state of our university address
- [00:00:13.160]coming up on Monday
- [00:00:14.010]but I bet you're still able to look in
- [00:00:16.100]on Husker's scores now and again, aren't you?
- [00:00:19.650]We are getting ready
- [00:00:20.483]for the state of the university address February 15th,
- [00:00:23.010]Monday is the 152nd birthday of the University of Nebraska
- [00:00:28.930]at Lincoln and so we have our state of the university
- [00:00:32.210]that same day and celebrating the university's birthday
- [00:00:36.160]looking forward to that,
- [00:00:37.180]talking about even in the time of COVID-19,
- [00:00:40.160]we've had so many phenomenal things happen
- [00:00:43.160]at this institution in the past year
- [00:00:45.570]and what's happening currently,
- [00:00:47.120]so looking forward to that certainly
- [00:00:48.600]but haven't given up on following all the sports too,
- [00:00:51.900]you know one of the things that's a little bit unique
- [00:00:55.520]about COVID 19, a lot of things unique about it,
- [00:00:58.370]but an added thing is the fact
- [00:01:00.490]that we actually have more sports going on right now
- [00:01:02.900]than we normally would this time of the year,
- [00:01:06.080]you know with volleyball, being played in the winter,
- [00:01:10.070]now in the spring
- [00:01:11.250]and added to all of the other winter sports
- [00:01:14.333]It's a lot to keep up with Matt
- [00:01:16.340]as I know you know George Kusche,
- [00:01:19.770]our cross country runner just one won the Men 8K race
- [00:01:23.220]at Big Ten Championship here recently on the 30th of January
- [00:01:26.950]and was named National Athlete of the Week
- [00:01:28.950]it was something that's great for us to celebrate.
- [00:01:32.049]Our volleyball team doing well of course
- [00:01:34.320]and their started the season
- [00:01:35.560]been following the rifle team, and the bowling team,
- [00:01:37.810]and the wrestling team and the gymnastics teams,
- [00:01:40.150]and of course men's and women's basketball,
- [00:01:42.660]so great to be here tonight in this game and that one.
- [00:01:46.640]Well this is the time of year
- [00:01:48.250]when parents in high school seniors
- [00:01:50.560]are thinking about scholarships
- [00:01:52.920]and the university had some good news recently
- [00:01:55.000]about a new scholarship.
- [00:01:56.750]What can you tell us about the new scholarship?
- [00:01:59.220]Well Matt, we've been putting a lot of emphasis
- [00:02:02.090]over the last few years of building
- [00:02:04.310]our College of Engineering
- [00:02:06.653]or the primary College of Engineering
- [00:02:09.070]for the state of Nebraska
- [00:02:10.330]the only College of Engineering in the state,
- [00:02:13.080]and we have been making significant investments
- [00:02:16.000]and growing and expanding our college to meet the needs
- [00:02:19.070]that are out there ahead of us in these fields,
- [00:02:23.810]both in terms of building new buildings,
- [00:02:26.120]we have a new renovation
- [00:02:27.610]of our Scott Engineering Center underway,
- [00:02:29.480]about to launch the building
- [00:02:30.800]of a new instructional facility to be called Kiewit Hall
- [00:02:35.380]on our campus for the College of Engineering
- [00:02:38.380]and the Kiewit Corporation just recently
- [00:02:41.810]announced a new gift scholarship program
- [00:02:44.710]being funded by their employees,
- [00:02:47.000]by the leaders of the Kiewit Corporation,
- [00:02:50.170]to support students in the College of Engineering
- [00:02:53.590]and in full for their educations.
- [00:02:58.010]So in 2019, just a little over a year ago,
- [00:03:03.760]Kiewit made the initial gift
- [00:03:06.170]to support building the new Kiewit Hall
- [00:03:08.750]I was mentioning earlier
- [00:03:10.020]that will start construction on this summer,
- [00:03:12.550]and now they're committing in this new scholarship program,
- [00:03:16.610]the Kiewit Scholars Program, 10 students per client
- [00:03:22.180]in the College of Engineering,
- [00:03:23.690]so ultimately 40 of the engineering students
- [00:03:26.990]will be supported by this new program.
- [00:03:29.690]So it will be funding for tuition, for housing,
- [00:03:33.170]for other education experiences
- [00:03:35.070]for their first freshman year
- [00:03:36.710]and then in their second, third, fourth years,
- [00:03:39.370]program will provide their full educational expenses
- [00:03:42.410]and funding tuition and international study
- [00:03:44.980]and internships with Kiewit.
- [00:03:48.150]So really an exciting thing
- [00:03:50.890]that the Kiewit Corporation is stepping up
- [00:03:53.190]to help Nebraska meet that projected need
- [00:03:56.450]for 15,000 new workers in these fields,
- [00:04:00.110]just five years from now, not very far ahead.
- [00:04:03.110]So I'm very very proud of this, excited about it,
- [00:04:06.027]The Kiewit Corporation long standing major entity
- [00:04:09.910]based in Nebraska out of Omaha
- [00:04:11.960]and to see this level of support is just wonderful.
- [00:04:16.600]Well chancellor as always it's great visiting with you
- [00:04:19.850]as a parent of three graduates of University of Nebraska.
- [00:04:23.660]I'm always excited and thank you for your continuing support
- [00:04:26.920]of our women's basketball team,
- [00:04:28.330]It's been great talking to you.
- [00:04:29.283]Well you bet,
- [00:04:30.750]and hope for a good second half here, Go Big Red.
- [00:04:33.180]Go Big Red, that's chancellor Ronnie Green,
- [00:04:34.860]I'm Matt Courtney, the Huskers in the Hawkeyes
- [00:04:37.090]more halftime in a few moments.
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