N2025 Conversations | Aim 2: Impactful Research and Creative Activity

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In the second of a six video series, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln deans discuss progress on the N2025 strategic plan. The conversation explores Aim 2: Impactful Research and Creative Activity.

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[00:00:05.370]I'm going to be making an introduction about the
[00:00:09.060]research aim. So to establish a culture at
[00:00:12.030]Nebraska to committed to increasing the impact of
[00:00:15.120]research and creative activity. This, of course,
[00:00:18.480]is both a key obligation, but also a key
[00:00:23.160]opportunity for our land-grant university. I'll
[00:00:27.060]talk a few minutes about some of the activities
[00:00:29.940]that ORED's involved with. But clearly, this is a
[00:00:32.940]discussion about what we're doing across the
[00:00:35.280]campus in many different areas. And so I look
[00:00:38.190]forward to the, to the discussion as we move into
[00:00:41.520]this. Of course, ORED, the Office of Research and
[00:00:44.730]Economic Development is all about supporting the
[00:00:48.240]growth of totality of research and creative
[00:00:51.330]activity for the campus. And we work with you
[00:00:54.630]every day on that. And I, I'm really proud of the
[00:00:58.890]the progress that we all have made in the last
[00:01:02.850]couple of years on the N2025, both strategy but
[00:01:06.420]also the expectations and the targets. A number of
[00:01:09.750]things that ORED has worked on in the last couple
[00:01:12.750]of years, I think we're really pleased with we
[00:01:14.730]think is making some impact on our growth, both in
[00:01:18.510]terms of the kind of support we're providing for
[00:01:20.730]faculty that are going after non federal funds,
[00:01:23.760]we've seen good growth, and particularly in the
[00:01:26.250]corporate funding, and we want to want to really
[00:01:29.340]keep pushing on that. Similarly on our our
[00:01:32.280]leadership development program, that we've now
[00:01:34.890]we're in our second year on we have 15 mid-career
[00:01:38.820]faculty working in a cohort to learn and to think
[00:01:42.720]through what it will mean to build a more
[00:01:46.500]significant research team with more faculty
[00:01:49.590]partners and partners beyond the campus. Research
[00:01:52.320]at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln really has
[00:01:55.230]continues to show significant momentum. We're
[00:01:59.220]pleased with the progress that we're all making
[00:02:01.260]together. And I look forward to more growth in the
[00:02:05.070]next stages of the work. And so with that, I want
[00:02:07.050]to turn it over to Becky's Z avala to report on
[00:02:09.450]the 2025 targets.
[00:02:12.260]There are five targets in this aim. The first
[00:02:16.040]target calls for us to achieve 450 million in
[00:02:19.430]annual research expenditures, including at least
[00:02:22.610]30 million from the private sector and 10 million
[00:02:26.510]from licensing income. I'm happy to report that
[00:02:29.480]year to date externally sponsored research
[00:02:32.060]expenditures are trending up. FY 21 industry
[00:02:36.380]sponsored expenditures totaled 19 point 8 million
[00:02:40.790]up 3% from FY 20. We've continued this upward
[00:02:44.690]trend in FY 22. License revenue for FY 21 totaled
[00:02:49.580]6.5 million, up 1% from FY 20. Year to date, we
[00:02:56.060]are at 5 million. The next target calls for an
[00:03:00.410]increase in the number of faculty participating in
[00:03:04.250]extramurally funded research, scholarship and
[00:03:07.130]creative activity by 5% annually on a three year
[00:03:11.240]rolling average. In FY 21 , 973 out of 2116
[00:03:17.240]faculty and postdocs served as PI or co-PI on an
[00:03:21.050]active externally sponsored project. This was up
[00:03:25.160]from 780 in FY 20 . FY 22, we are at 751 year
[00:03:32.180]todate out of 2049 faculty. The next target calls
[00:03:36.170]for an increase in the number of faculty
[00:03:38.450]apportioned to do research, scholarship and
[00:03:41.240]creative activity by 5% annually on a three year
[00:03:44.360]rolling average. Using digital measures activity
[00:03:47.360]inside data, we report that there were 1274
[00:03:51.620]faculty with some share of research apportionment
[00:03:54.680]in FY 22. This is down from FY 21, where there
[00:03:58.460]were 1287 faculty reporting a research
[00:04:02.750]apportionment. The next target looks for an
[00:04:07.670]increase in the number of faculty receiving
[00:04:10.010]external honors and awards by 10% annually on a
[00:04:13.220]three year rolling average. FY 21, there were 81
[00:04:17.360]faculty receiving external honors and awards. This
[00:04:20.720]is up 8% from fiscal year 20. FY 22 year-to-date
[00:04:24.800]is looking good and we have 54. The final target
[00:04:29.510]in this aim calls for an increase in graduate
[00:04:31.880]degrees awarded by 5% per year. Using data from
[00:04:35.990]the IEA data index reported there were 1321
[00:04:40.340]graduate degrees awarded in fiscal year 21. This
[00:04:43.430]is down from 1399 reported in fiscal year 20.
[00:04:47.930]These numbers include master's, professional and
[00:04:50.600]doctoral degrees conferred.
[00:04:54.010]So I do want to point out that in FY 22 to date,
[00:04:57.580]we've already surpassed our previous years In size
[00:05:01.150]of sponsored research grant awards, so the average
[00:05:04.090]size of our proposals increased by 34%, from FY 21
[00:05:08.200]to 22. That's year to date. The average size of
[00:05:11.440]our research grant awards increased by 103%. So
[00:05:15.610]this means that our, you know, we're being more
[00:05:18.100]successful but successful in larger scope, and in
[00:05:22.390]higher quality than in our past years. And we have
[00:05:25.390]more grants of over a million dollars submitted
[00:05:28.300]already in this fiscal year than in years past. So
[00:05:30.940]this suggests that we're thinking bigger now than
[00:05:33.430]than ever before. Our research expenditures have
[00:05:37.630]surpassed FY 21 by 84%. So while these numbers are
[00:05:42.250]looking good for us, we are doing some things to
[00:05:44.530]help make that happen. We are also trying to
[00:05:47.320]modify our apportionment models to position our
[00:05:51.130]priorities, our workloads and our products to be
[00:05:55.180]balanced and equitable and also accountable. And I
[00:05:58.810]think this is maybe something for a more
[00:06:01.390]campus-wide discussion about our apportionment
[00:06:04.510]models and how we can be more nimble and
[00:06:07.990]thoughtful with each particular hire we make. And
[00:06:11.290]then finally, we're trying to think about what is
[00:06:13.900]the right balance across faculty hires, in terms
[00:06:19.090]of those primarily focused on research, those in
[00:06:22.090]the tenure line and those in more teaching focus
[00:06:24.640]lines. What is the right balance there? And how
[00:06:27.490]can we move quickly to fail faculty lines when
[00:06:31.420]they vacate?
[00:06:32.840]Great, well in the College of Arts and Sciences,
[00:06:34.910]we're thrilled to report that year to date so far,
[00:06:37.580]we have $32 million in research awards, which is
[00:06:41.180]the most we've had, in a single year. Research
[00:06:44.180]expenditures are also up so we're, we're thrilled
[00:06:46.940]by that news. Part of that is the largest grant
[00:06:49.670]UNL has ever had before with the NSF grant to
[00:06:53.090]advance subatomic physics as part of the CERN's
[00:06:56.630]Large Collider project led by Professor Ken Bloom.
[00:07:00.320]We're also thrilled by the ongoing work that's
[00:07:02.540]done with the Rural Drug Addiction Research Center
[00:07:05.420]an NIH COBRA-funded research excellence center,
[00:07:09.140]one of the few major research centers in the
[00:07:11.360]country that's focused on addressing substance use
[00:07:14.540]in rural areas. And we've also been expanding our
[00:07:17.540]outreach, with private foundations, looking to
[00:07:20.420]expand support for our research, especially in the
[00:07:22.790]humanities and social sciences through private
[00:07:24.830]foundations. And we were thrilled to see that
[00:07:28.970]achieved with Kwame and Lorna Dawes as a part of
[00:07:32.030]the Mellon Foundation grant to support their three
[00:07:34.490]year project on African Poetry Digital Portal
[00:07:37.940]project, which is a collaboration with the Center
[00:07:40.160]for Digital Research and humanities, in the
[00:07:42.560]libraries. And then we're also excited to
[00:07:45.650]celebrate new AAAS fellowships for Dr. Julia
[00:07:49.460]McQuillan and Dr. Judy Walker. We're also looking
[00:07:52.250]at ways to make sure that we are aligning our
[00:07:55.520]research expectations with every hire we make, and
[00:07:58.880]trying to make sure that we're facilitating the
[00:08:00.710]training for grant development and grant
[00:08:03.080]proposals.
[00:08:03.800]The faculty have done an amazing job of navigating
[00:08:07.850]the pandemic. And that's certainly been true in
[00:08:10.970]IANR, in our case across a really diverse range of
[00:08:16.670]research environments from the laboratory to to
[00:08:20.600]extensive field settings. And through that
[00:08:24.290]diversity, they were able to set a record last
[00:08:27.740]year for sponsored awards, a new high of 64
[00:08:31.460]million for the Institute and that continues a
[00:08:34.790]trajectory of about four and a half percent
[00:08:38.480]annually since 2012. Faculty in IANR are
[00:08:43.220]positioning to grow and broaden their research
[00:08:46.820]impacts. By considering how the expertise that
[00:08:50.150]they already apply to the development of
[00:08:53.030]resilient, healthy food systems can be directed to
[00:08:56.660]the protection of those systems, from
[00:08:59.630]unintentional or malicious attacks or assaults.
[00:09:04.460]IANR and the National Strategic Research
[00:09:08.480]Institute. NSRI already have a strong partnership.
[00:09:12.620]And we took another important step forward in that
[00:09:16.370]partnership last year with the establishment of
[00:09:19.790]the collaborative biosecurity laboratory in the
[00:09:22.640]Morrison Life Sciences building. And that lab and
[00:09:26.510]that partnership between IANR and NSRI will help
[00:09:31.340]bring together researchers to to work on
[00:09:36.440]agricultural and natural resource security,
[00:09:39.920]defense and countermeasures, and biological
[00:09:43.250]defense in supportive US Department of Defense and
[00:09:48.140]Homeland Security and other agencies with those
[00:09:51.680]priorities.
[00:09:53.650]I'll just play off a little bit of what Archie
[00:09:55.990]just said as it relates to the College of
[00:09:57.490]Business. Our funded researches relatively small
[00:10:01.030]relative to other colleges. But where we do have
[00:10:03.880]some areas that we collaborate highly with across
[00:10:07.960]campus is our supply chain management and
[00:10:10.660]analytics department and our department of
[00:10:12.400]economics. And they rely on for example, our
[00:10:15.250]department of economics works closely with a
[00:10:17.830]center through Education and Human Sciences, the
[00:10:20.530]Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families
[00:10:22.570]and Schools. The College of Business also has
[00:10:24.970]faculty fellows that are engaged more broadly with
[00:10:28.210]different colleges or even university system
[00:10:31.930]level. So we have fellows involved in the Robert
[00:10:34.510]B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute, the Yeutter
[00:10:37.210]Institute, which is a collaboration between the
[00:10:39.490]College of Law, Ag and Natural Resources, as well
[00:10:42.670]as the College of Business. And also the College
[00:10:45.490]of Law has the Nebraska Governance Technology
[00:10:48.190]Center that has fellows in which our faculty are
[00:10:50.830]engaged with. And so one of the things that we
[00:10:53.350]found for our college is having those
[00:10:55.510]collaborations across campus are really critical,
[00:10:58.810]if we do have faculty that have the opportunity to
[00:11:02.110]engage in funded research, because we don't have
[00:11:04.450]the resources to build the support within the
[00:11:06.940]college.
[00:11:07.840]So I thought I'd focus on three areas that are a
[00:11:10.480]little different than what we've heard so far,
[00:11:11.920]that are other strategies that are in this aim. So
[00:11:14.530]one of the strategies is to apply for national
[00:11:16.660]awards, and we're thrilled that the university put
[00:11:19.270]forward our professor of law Jessica Shoemaker,
[00:11:22.000]for a Carnegie Fellowship, and she was one of 26
[00:11:24.640]across the country, to receive one of those to
[00:11:26.980]explore Rural Futures. And using property law, to
[00:11:32.110]think about how we've constructed our current
[00:11:34.240]communities and what the future of those
[00:11:36.220]communities might be . I'd like to also mention
[00:11:39.880]student involvement in research. Our Schmid
[00:11:42.910]Research Fellows are a group of students that
[00:11:45.490]we've doubled the amount of students who received
[00:11:48.430]specific training from one of our law librarians,
[00:11:51.580]so it's a collaboration with our libraries. These
[00:11:53.980]the students receive training to then help
[00:11:55.810]professors in their research, and ongoing support
[00:11:59.050]and supervision from the librarians and the
[00:12:01.030]professors. So the students really engage in high
[00:12:03.640]level legal research. And it serves as a
[00:12:06.160]multiplier for what our professors are able to
[00:12:08.380]accomplish with their research. And the third is
[00:12:11.110]to communicate more broadly about the impact.
[00:12:13.450]We've done a lot of tremendous research at the
[00:12:15.640]College of Law. And we've really started telling
[00:12:18.100]the world about it, which is important in order to
[00:12:20.050]have the impact we want to have. So we've done
[00:12:23.170]over the last year in collaboration with
[00:12:25.870]University Communications, seven, one to two
[00:12:28.480]minute videos, each focusing on one of our
[00:12:30.820]professors, and their research agenda and their
[00:12:33.700]impact that they're having in our communities. And
[00:12:36.130]then we send those out to a list of professors and
[00:12:40.090]law schools all across the country that are
[00:12:42.430]engaged in that similar type of work.
[00:12:44.420]In the College of Engineering, I'd like to just
[00:12:46.730]call out three things that have been happening.
[00:12:48.710]One is we've been fortunate to be hiring a bunch
[00:12:50.630]of young faculty. And this is where we've really
[00:12:53.120]seen the benefits of being in the big 10. Our
[00:12:55.040]pools are much stronger than they were prior to
[00:12:57.260]that. And this has been reflected in the number of
[00:13:00.380]awards that our young faculty are getting. We have
[00:13:03.050]over a dozen career award winners now. And the
[00:13:05.540]National Science Foundation Career Award is the
[00:13:08.000]most prestigious award that a young faculty member
[00:13:10.310]in engineering can get. We also have several PYI
[00:13:13.370]Presidential Young Investigator awards. And we
[00:13:15.800]have one faculty who has both, which is
[00:13:17.960]unprecedented and as far as I know. We've been
[00:13:20.930]increasingly seeing the translation of research
[00:13:23.420]into practice, including Virtual Incision, which
[00:13:26.030]is about to finish up their clinical trials for a
[00:13:29.540]surgical robot. We also have a company that does
[00:13:34.220]organic weeding by using flaming, so this is
[00:13:36.920]George Gogos. And then of course, we have drone
[00:13:39.860]amplified led by Carrick Detweiler that is looking
[00:13:42.260]at applications of drones to agriculture, and
[00:13:45.350]firefighting and things like that. You know, I
[00:13:48.260]think also what's an important development for the
[00:13:50.420]College of Engineering has been how we've become a
[00:13:52.700]little bit of the go to in the region for some
[00:13:55.520]high level research. I think this is best
[00:13:57.920]exemplified exemplified by the general services
[00:14:01.310]agreement that we signed with the Honeywell
[00:14:03.170]National Security campus down in Kansas City. So
[00:14:07.640]they work on a lot of classified projects, but
[00:14:12.560]they come to us for a lot of work. The most
[00:14:14.780]prominent project that we have there is Yongfeng
[00:14:19.550]Lu's shipyard on a ship where he has a laser that
[00:14:22.550]you can take, you know, onto a large naval ship to
[00:14:25.490]use to both diagnose the the integrity of the hull
[00:14:29.570]and also to do repairs. So that's a real game
[00:14:31.700]changer.
[00:14:32.780]We now have 12 faculty who are research fellows
[00:14:36.110]with organizations across campus, including the
[00:14:40.430]Nebraska Governance and Technology Center, the
[00:14:42.860]National Strategic Research Institute, the
[00:14:45.170]Daugherty Institute, and when I say 12 faculty,
[00:14:48.230]that doesn't sound like much, but that's a third
[00:14:50.600]of our faculty, which is something we've never had
[00:14:53.000]before. From last year to this year, we went from
[00:14:55.460]two grants to 14. So just talking about research
[00:14:59.420]and really making it an important part of our
[00:15:01.160]culture, and the discussions we're having has made
[00:15:04.010]a huge impact across the college.
[00:15:06.630]There are new entirely new forms of research
[00:15:11.100]output that really require the expertise of the
[00:15:14.310]library faculty. So we are developing a new
[00:15:17.370]service in the area of evidence synthesis. Because
[00:15:21.240]most of the standards programs around things like
[00:15:25.590]systematic reviews and meta analyses, really
[00:15:29.100]specifically require for librarians to be part of
[00:15:32.040]the research teams. So we are investing deeply in
[00:15:35.460]expanding the the knowledge and the expertise in
[00:15:38.190]the libraries to do that. research funders are
[00:15:41.370]increasingly requiring that the output the data
[00:15:45.360]outputs of the research be openly shared. So there
[00:15:48.930]is a really critical role for the libraries to
[00:15:51.240]play here, in moving us towards a more open system
[00:15:55.110]of science and making that the default. This is a
[00:15:58.020]call that the National Academies have very
[00:16:00.780]strongly supported. And it requires an aggressive
[00:16:04.050]approach that brings together the libraries, the
[00:16:06.630]Office of Research, ITS and all of the colleges
[00:16:10.170]across the university. So that we're really
[00:16:13.380]training young scholars, graduate students in
[00:16:16.290]particular, as part of their curriculum, but also
[00:16:19.530]outside of the classroom in the lab to understand
[00:16:22.980]what research data management curation means. And
[00:16:26.100]make sure that they have the support and the tools
[00:16:28.590]and the access to the expertise to be able to meet
[00:16:32.250]those new requirements. And in this in the sense
[00:16:36.450]of, we've been talking about the systems that
[00:16:39.690]undergird all of the research and creative
[00:16:42.660]activity. And here at Nebraska, we have this
[00:16:45.510]wonderful strength of the Nebraska System, but
[00:16:48.900]also our membership in the BigTen. The the
[00:16:51.990]research output of the BigTen is tremendous. It
[00:16:55.560]dwarfs the ivy system. It dwarfs the University of
[00:16:59.100]California system. So we have this tremendous
[00:17:01.860]opportunity to really make deeply lasting and
[00:17:04.470]systemic change. But we've also been working over
[00:17:07.290]the last few years to increase our research
[00:17:10.110]apportionments for Library's faculty, so that as
[00:17:13.080]they are partnering across the university to
[00:17:15.630]support research, they are also contributing to
[00:17:18.720]changing our own field, and changing the way those
[00:17:22.320]knowledge systems work and operate.
[00:17:25.770]So one of the targets is to increase the number of
[00:17:28.410]students with long term research and creative
[00:17:30.720]activity experiences. And historically, I think
[00:17:33.900]our campus has done a great job in providing
[00:17:36.180]undergraduates opportunities to engage in these
[00:17:39.060]activities much more than some of our peer
[00:17:41.010]institutions. But I think now we're being more
[00:17:43.860]intentional to develop continuous programs that
[00:17:46.890]both leverage and enhance our existing programs to
[00:17:50.070]provide more seamless, continuous opportunities.
[00:17:53.460]Just for an example last summer, the School of
[00:17:56.430]Biological Sciences created a summer bridge
[00:17:58.920]program for historically underserved scholars.
[00:18:01.590]They were incoming first year students. And they
[00:18:04.320]participated in an eight week experience in the
[00:18:07.110]labs and learning all about what is research and
[00:18:10.350]how do you go about it. And then they moved into
[00:18:13.410]our FIRE program in the fall semester. And now
[00:18:16.440]they're being encouraged and supported to apply
[00:18:19.260]for UCARE positions. So they'll have a continuous
[00:18:21.780]experience if they're interested in research. And
[00:18:25.800]I think this type of experience is making our
[00:18:28.050]students more competitive for national awards and
[00:18:31.170]fellowships.
[00:18:32.220]So another area related on the research and
[00:18:36.300]scholarly activities that we haven't touched upon
[00:18:38.760]yet is the investment that the university has made
[00:18:41.130]in discipline based education research. This has
[00:18:44.310]been a new area to us, an area that we have been
[00:18:47.550]very fortunate to attract very talented faculty in
[00:18:50.790]particular in the College of Engineering, College
[00:18:53.700]of Arts and Sciences and in the College of
[00:18:55.860]Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. And
[00:18:58.470]these faculty have collaborated together to pursue
[00:19:01.590]new areas of scholarly research as well as had the
[00:19:04.980]opportunity to secure funding to advance their
[00:19:08.250]portfolios. And then we've also been able to
[00:19:10.470]connect with the talented teams in the College of
[00:19:12.750]Education and Human Sciences also. So just a
[00:19:15.450]really exciting new area that we have here at the
[00:19:17.520]University of Nebraska.
[00:19:19.560]When we talk about impact, we also of course,
[00:19:22.230]think about the impact that comes from commercial
[00:19:25.140]activity. And our university has been in the top
[00:19:30.360]100 international universities for patent
[00:19:32.910]production for a number of years now. That's the
[00:19:35.700]work of our faculty, our students, our partners.
[00:19:39.240]We have a very high percentage of licenses and
[00:19:44.460]startups that come from those patents and we do
[00:19:47.040]very well we're very productive in that area. We
[00:19:50.490]are highly connected with partner companies both
[00:19:53.100]around the state, around the world in doing both
[00:19:57.060]collaborative research, offering different kinds
[00:19:59.790]of things experiential learning for our students.
[00:20:02.970]But bringing our expertise into the product
[00:20:06.900]design, into the r&d of these companies, and in
[00:20:10.530]many cases, offering them something that they
[00:20:12.900]can't find anywhere else in the world.
[00:20:15.720]I think one of the most amazing things is this
[00:20:19.230]idea of co-creating solution sets, and lots of
[00:20:23.400]examples of that in all of our colleges. But when
[00:20:26.940]we engage with our communities, with our partners,
[00:20:30.570]our stakeholders learners across the state, it
[00:20:33.810]really is in the spirit that we have something to
[00:20:37.020]offer, but so do the people we engage with. And I
[00:20:39.990]think that is absolutely powerful and unique here.
[00:20:43.140]We do that extremely well.
[00:20:45.300]I wonder, as I look at the ambitious goals and the
[00:20:48.600]ambitious aims of this particular part of N2025.
[00:20:53.430]Are there particular challenges for us to reach
[00:20:56.160]those goals in the next two years, two and a half
[00:21:01.140]years. And if we could talk for just a moment
[00:21:03.900]about what those challenges are.
[00:21:06.630]I think we need to put some attention to how we
[00:21:09.900]resolve the tension that exists between all sorts
[00:21:13.620]of administrative procedures to make sure that we
[00:21:17.280]are following all the rules and regulations as the
[00:21:19.890]law dean, with freeing up our faculty to do the
[00:21:23.670]deep work and have the time for deep work as
[00:21:26.190]necessary for really impactful research. And some
[00:21:29.190]of that may involve investment in administration
[00:21:32.640]that can help with that relieve faculty of that
[00:21:35.040]time. So whether it's helping with the travel
[00:21:38.640]regulations or helping with grant situation grant
[00:21:43.260]writing, and we have a great support system in
[00:21:46.020]place, I think having some attention given to how
[00:21:50.730]to make that the most efficient, the most
[00:21:52.950]efficient processes possible, that will allow our
[00:21:55.860]faculty to really do what they've come here to do,
[00:21:58.920]which is spend time teaching and spend time doing
[00:22:01.140]research.
[00:22:01.890]I think an almost existential challenge to our
[00:22:04.020]research enterprise is our ability to recruit
[00:22:06.840]quality graduate students. We really I think, are
[00:22:10.140]behind on the way we support graduate students,
[00:22:12.570]I'd really appreciate the efforts that Tim and Deb
[00:22:14.580]have made. But I think as an institution, we
[00:22:17.490]really have to make some significant investments
[00:22:19.800]in improving the quality of the experience for our
[00:22:23.070]graduate students. And, quite frankly, the mental
[00:22:25.620]health care support they receive, the stipends
[00:22:27.750]they receive, and family support they receive.
[00:22:31.860]Obviously the pandemic has had an impact on
[00:22:35.790]research and research enterprises across the
[00:22:38.820]country. We have achieved at much higher levels in
[00:22:42.240]terms of maintaining our research and creative
[00:22:44.490]activity during the pandemic than then most of our
[00:22:47.580]peers have across the country.
[00:22:52.950]I couldn't help but reflect on the conversations
[00:22:56.635]today in thinking about what Charles Bessey would
[00:23:00.395]think, where he here today. And of course, Charles
[00:23:04.231]Bessey is a widely recognized name in the history
[00:23:07.992]of the University of Nebraska. I suspect that
[00:23:11.451]we're Dr. Bessey here today. He would be immensely
[00:23:15.287]proud of this institution--that he was a founder
[00:23:18.973]in many ways of--for the research and creative
[00:23:22.508]activity impact that the University of
[00:23:25.441]Nebraska-Lincoln has today and the way that we are
[00:23:29.277]delivering it.

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