Volleyball interview - Minnesota

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02/25/2021 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about the NCAA volleyball tournament plans to be held entirely in Omaha. He also talks about the Grand Challenges UNL has identified for research and creative scholarship, which were announced at the February 15, State of Our University address.

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[00:00:00.290]Welcome back, everybody,
[00:00:01.160]to Brunch With the Big Red.
[00:00:02.510]That's right, the Huskers facing Minnesota,
[00:00:04.810]the rematch, but hey, before we play this one,
[00:00:07.620]we have a very special guest,
[00:00:08.730]the chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
[00:00:11.940]our flagship university in this great state.
[00:00:14.070]Chancellor Ronnie Green visiting with us.
[00:00:15.820]Chancellor, how are you, sir?
[00:00:17.842]I'm great, John.
[00:00:18.800]It's great to be with you.
[00:00:20.150]Well, recently the state learned some good news.
[00:00:22.650]The entire NCAA volleyball tournament
[00:00:26.180]will take place in the city of Omaha.
[00:00:28.670]Your thoughts?
[00:00:30.600]Well, you know it's gonna be a little different
[00:00:32.650]to have all of the teams in one place
[00:00:34.970]and playing through a tournament in that way,
[00:00:36.670]but as we've come to expect,
[00:00:38.880]everything's different this year,
[00:00:41.040]so I'm very excited about the fact
[00:00:43.780]that the NCAA volleyball tournament will in its entirety
[00:00:48.670]will be played in Omaha.
[00:00:50.230]As John our coach said,
[00:00:52.647]"Omaha has proven time and time again
[00:00:55.247]"to be one of the best host cities
[00:00:56.777]"for major sporting events."
[00:00:58.430]They were the College World Series',
[00:00:59.970]as we know, long-time home,
[00:01:03.440]there in the new venue in more recent years,
[00:01:05.870]the U.S. Olympics swim trials,
[00:01:08.390]NCAA championships in the past,
[00:01:11.390]including some great ones we can remember at Nebraska.
[00:01:15.610]They always do a phenomenal job
[00:01:17.820]so I have no doubt that all of the tournament teams
[00:01:21.850]will have a great experience there,
[00:01:23.970]and of course we fully expect that our Huskers
[00:01:28.210]will plan to be there and be there
[00:01:31.240]through the entirety of the tournament,
[00:01:32.795]hopefully for a great run.
[00:01:34.137]And Chancellor, this past Tuesday
[00:01:35.980]you delivered remotely your one-hour
[00:01:39.150]State of the University address
[00:01:41.210]and in that you highlighted seven grand challenges
[00:01:44.440]or areas the university wants to focus on
[00:01:46.910]in research and creative activity.
[00:01:49.340]What more can you tell us about these
[00:01:50.470]seven grand challenges?
[00:01:52.740]Well, John, over the past couple of years,
[00:01:57.990]you would remember that we have gone
[00:02:00.080]through a visioning process for UNL
[00:02:02.560]back in 2019, 2018 and 2019,
[00:02:06.390]when we were preparing to celebrate
[00:02:08.970]our 150th anniversary year.
[00:02:11.820]We went through a process called N150
[00:02:15.350]that looked out long-term,
[00:02:17.170]what did we aspire to be at UNL over the next 25 years
[00:02:21.450]in higher education?
[00:02:22.970]And then last year in the same State
[00:02:25.977]of the University address,
[00:02:27.860]we revealed our first five-year strategic plan,
[00:02:31.449]what we call and refer to as N2025 for the university
[00:02:36.443]in leading that vision or in achieving that N150 vision,
[00:02:41.440]and part of that calls for the university
[00:02:45.040]to focus its research and scholarship efforts
[00:02:48.106]not exclusively, but heavily, around grand challenge areas
[00:02:53.920]that are important to Nebraska and important to the world.
[00:02:57.090]And today we are now in the process,
[00:03:02.610]as I said last week in the State of Our University,
[00:03:05.700]of launching these seven grand challenge areas
[00:03:09.440]for those research and scholarship areas.
[00:03:12.680]So there are big problems in those seven.
[00:03:17.960]There are four that are areas that UNL
[00:03:21.810]has been known in internationally for some time,
[00:03:25.770]including sustainable water and food security.
[00:03:28.330]We're one of the leading institutions in the world
[00:03:31.750]in that area and that area continues
[00:03:34.450]to be even more important as we move forward.
[00:03:37.430]Early childhood education and development,
[00:03:39.460]another area that we have long had international standing in
[00:03:44.710]in children, think three to eight years of age,
[00:03:48.560]really in that early childhood development arena,
[00:03:52.850]in climate change mitigation and resilience,
[00:03:55.669]an area that we also have had leadership in for some time,
[00:04:00.000]think things like the National Drought Mitigation Center
[00:04:02.920]that has been a long-standing national resource
[00:04:06.150]for the U.S. and located here at Nebraska,
[00:04:10.280]but this issue of climate change
[00:04:12.240]that has some sense of urgency associated with it,
[00:04:14.970]for us to develop mitigation and resilience capabilities
[00:04:19.010]and in quantum science and engineering.
[00:04:21.220]Our physics and quantum science program here
[00:04:25.120]has been an international leader for a long time.
[00:04:27.820]A lot of people don't recognize that,
[00:04:30.110]but physics here is a big deal
[00:04:32.400]at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
[00:04:34.230]and we see great opportunities ahead
[00:04:37.240]in this next revolution of quantum science and engineering,
[00:04:41.010]and then three areas that are areas
[00:04:43.180]that are critically important as we see time moving forward
[00:04:48.380]add to those other four in health equity,
[00:04:52.260]in anti-racism and racial equity,
[00:04:55.200]and in science and technology literacy for society.
[00:04:59.480]All seven of these grand challenge areas
[00:05:02.510]being ones that are important to Nebraska and the world
[00:05:05.927]and that we intend to focus on
[00:05:08.720]over the time ahead in the institution
[00:05:11.220]with strategic investment.
[00:05:12.490]So great, great unveiling of that last week
[00:05:16.430]to move those grand challenges forward in the institution
[00:05:20.330]and it was even in the time of COVID,
[00:05:23.262]was great fun to really think about
[00:05:26.480]all that the university is accomplishing with our people
[00:05:30.800]and our programs and our anti-apartheid mission.
[00:05:33.700]Chancellor Ronnie Green,
[00:05:34.570]chancellor of University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
[00:05:35.920]thank you so much, sir, for your time today.
[00:05:38.300]You bet and go Big Red!
[00:05:40.210]Minnesota's a good volleyball team
[00:05:42.220]so looking for a great result tonight.
[00:05:45.610]All right, that's the chancellor
[00:05:46.990]and when we continue, the head coach of the Huskers,
[00:05:49.370]John Cook in the wings,
[00:05:50.490]and you're listening to Big Red Volleyball.

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