Men's basketball vs. Auburn

Ronnie Green Author

12/16/2021 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about UNL's world-leading work in physics and one of the largest research grants in university history.

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[00:00:00.150]Welcome back
[00:00:00.983]inside our Huskers Radio Network Broadcast studio.
[00:00:03.380]Greg Sharpe, joined by the chancellor
[00:00:04.650]of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:06.670]And Nebraska Athletics' chancellor has a great tradition
[00:00:09.550]of excellence on any playing field or surface,
[00:00:11.950]but also in the classroom.
[00:00:13.990]You got some really good news recently
[00:00:16.010]about the student athletes' performance
[00:00:17.850]and the graduation success rate metric.
[00:00:20.860]Tell us about that.
[00:00:22.150]Well, you know, annually every year,
[00:00:23.680]the NCAA releases academic performance
[00:00:27.520]for all of intercollegiate athletics,
[00:00:30.110]and that happened last week for us.
[00:00:32.410]So we got our update on the past year
[00:00:36.380]for what academic successes look like in Nebraska.
[00:00:39.460]We're very proud of the results.
[00:00:42.820]We have posted a 95% graduation success rate this past year,
[00:00:47.670]the highest in school history.
[00:00:49.210]I think that's incrementally been going up
[00:00:51.540]for the last 11 years,
[00:00:53.390]every year has been increasing.
[00:00:55.540]I'm very proud of that.
[00:00:57.560]Third highest in graduation success rate
[00:01:00.350]in the big 10 behind Northwestern and Minnesota.
[00:01:03.890]And just a bit ahead of Michigan and Illinois,
[00:01:06.472]and some of our colleagues there.
[00:01:09.550]If you look nationally across all of D1,
[00:01:13.660]we're fourth out of 109 public institutions
[00:01:17.670]in that list across intercollegiate athletics,
[00:01:20.390]10th in the FBS, out of 135 institutions.
[00:01:24.650]So just very proud of our student athletes
[00:01:28.680]and the success that they're having academically.
[00:01:30.740]We talk often about the 347 Academic All-Americans
[00:01:33.940]leading the country.
[00:01:35.460]We had big 10 board meetings last week,
[00:01:36.910]and I was just parroting that again
[00:01:38.430]to our colleagues and reminding them of that.
[00:01:41.300]But in these data, it's also, I think,
[00:01:45.370]insightful to realize that 13 of our teams,
[00:01:49.130]13 teams in Husker Athletics had
[00:01:51.410]100% graduation success ratio this past year.
[00:01:55.380]So very proud of our student athletes and their success,
[00:01:58.900]and for posting those kind
[00:02:00.210]of nationally leading levels of graduation success.
[00:02:04.140]That is just amazing.
[00:02:05.590]Great for the student athletes to do that.
[00:02:07.140]Nebraska Research also recently hit a new high mark
[00:02:10.470]with a major new research grant
[00:02:12.850]involving Nebraska's experts in physics.
[00:02:15.760]Tell us what this is about.
[00:02:17.510]Yeah, we were very pleased earlier this week
[00:02:20.380]to get news that the National Science Foundation
[00:02:23.880]has awarded a five-year, $51 million grant
[00:02:28.860]to advance cutting-edge work in subatomic physics.
[00:02:33.410]This is building upon work
[00:02:34.970]that our folks had been involved in
[00:02:36.610]for a number of years here in working with CERN,
[00:02:40.010]the Large Hadron Super Collider
[00:02:42.830]located near Geneva, Switzerland.
[00:02:44.870]It's the leading international particle accelerator
[00:02:47.270]anywhere in the world.
[00:02:49.130]This grant is the largest in UNL history.
[00:02:52.180]It's the largest single research award
[00:02:54.070]that we've ever received,
[00:02:55.450]and will enable 1,200 physicists
[00:02:58.270]across the US at 19 institutions,
[00:03:01.390]and I'll tell you who some of these are in a minute,
[00:03:02.970]you're gonna go wow, we're leading them.
[00:03:06.430]That will really help to maximize
[00:03:08.720]the potential of the Compact Muon Solenoid detector
[00:03:12.000]that's part of that Super Collider.
[00:03:14.550]And we'll really do that work jointly through 2026.
[00:03:20.170]The partners, some of the partners
[00:03:22.730]that are involved in this include MIT,
[00:03:25.350]Caltech, Princeton, Cornell,
[00:03:27.793]I keep going down the list,
[00:03:29.370]but I think you get the idea.
[00:03:31.600]The effort is being led nationally
[00:03:34.400]by our very own professor of physics, Ken Bloom,
[00:03:38.200]who is the project's principal investigator
[00:03:40.870]for these next five years.
[00:03:43.020]Ken has really deep experience
[00:03:45.350]in CMS operations and management around this.
[00:03:48.530]He's been pivotal in bringing this
[00:03:50.400]to Nebraska and bringing this effort here.
[00:03:53.620]It's a capstone for him and his long-term dedication
[00:03:56.990]to leading these kinds of operations
[00:03:58.690]on both a national and a global scale in working with CERN.
[00:04:02.280]So we're immensely proud of this,
[00:04:04.610]very pleased for Ken
[00:04:06.320]and for a number of our other physicists.
[00:04:08.540]Little known secret,
[00:04:09.780]I think I've mentioned this a couple of times before
[00:04:12.080]in visiting with you, Greg,
[00:04:13.320]is that our physics and astronomy program
[00:04:15.530]at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is
[00:04:17.660]amongst the very top in the world,
[00:04:20.410]not only in their research,
[00:04:22.040]but also in their teaching and outreach efforts.
[00:04:24.580]And just another indication of that here
[00:04:27.140]with this very big deal of grant
[00:04:30.230]from the National Science Foundation.
[00:04:32.030]Sure is, congratulations to all involved with that.
[00:04:34.390]Thank you for filling us in on that.
[00:04:35.900]Enjoy your second half here.`
[00:04:37.560]Go Big Red.
[00:04:38.560]Ronnie Green with us here at halftime.
[00:04:39.960]We've got more coming up next.

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