Red-White Spring Game

Ronnie Green Author

04/09/2022 Added

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Ronnie Green reflects on the impact of the late David Sellmyer. Green also talks about the small meat processing plant of the future at Nebraska and the Global Yield Atlas.

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[00:00:00.150]Welcome back, Husker pregame show,
[00:00:01.620]Huskers Red and White Spring Scrimmage,
[00:00:03.260]just a little after one o'clock for kickoff
[00:00:05.010]for the Big Red wrap up spring football practice.
[00:00:07.960]And as we do each Saturday during the fall,
[00:00:10.200]a chance to catch up
[00:00:11.033]with the Chancellor of the University of Nebraska,
[00:00:13.091]Ronnie Green, and before we start talking some football,
[00:00:15.800]and I know you love to talk football about this Husker team,
[00:00:18.980]we're gonna start on a salute to a prominent faculty member
[00:00:22.403]that we lost here recently.
[00:00:25.460]Yeah, we did have a big loss for the university
[00:00:29.860]a little over a week ago,
[00:00:32.057]we had the funeral services for David Sellmyer.
[00:00:35.413]Dr. Sellmyer was a long time faculty member,
[00:00:40.100]just retired in the last couple of years.
[00:00:43.480]In physics, was the leader of our Physics department,
[00:00:47.320]when he came here from MIT in the 1970s,
[00:00:50.640]almost 50 years of service to the University of Nebraska,
[00:00:54.390]huge athletics fan also,
[00:00:57.401]was steeped in and loved Husker athletics.
[00:01:01.610]David was a true leader.
[00:01:05.950]You read his history and the things that he contributed,
[00:01:09.610]not only to the University of Nebraska,
[00:01:11.620]but to the larger field of physics around the world,
[00:01:14.670]was considered one of the world leaders in that arena.
[00:01:19.410]Led the department for a number of years,
[00:01:21.700]then went on to found our
[00:01:26.290]material science research center here,
[00:01:29.700]Materials Engineering Research Center, MRSEC, we call it,
[00:01:33.080]which also is a world leader.
[00:01:35.640]Later founded
[00:01:37.130]the Voelte-Keegan Nanoscience Research Facility
[00:01:41.210]that stands today in Jorgensen Hall,
[00:01:43.800]and is doing such important work
[00:01:45.510]and internationally-leading work in the nanoscience world.
[00:01:49.800]So a big loss, we think about David's family,
[00:01:54.090]but just a monumental career as a faculty member,
[00:02:00.000]as a leader in his field,
[00:02:01.550]so we'll all miss David for a long time ahead.
[00:02:05.350]Well, thank you for sharing that.
[00:02:06.450]Our thoughts and prayers with his family.
[00:02:08.890]Spring Game, chance there's a lot of places in the country
[00:02:11.400]who don't even know it's going on, not in Lincoln, Nebraska.
[00:02:14.150]It's a big deal here, it's a special day
[00:02:16.170]and I know you're excited to see this football team.
[00:02:17.831]Absolutely, to get our first chance
[00:02:20.350]to look at the team that will be on the field with us
[00:02:24.670]coming up here just before too long around the corner,
[00:02:27.470]as they always say, the long winter wait in Nebraska,
[00:02:30.309]we're coming out of that now
[00:02:31.860]and anticipating the start of Husker football season.
[00:02:35.770]A lot of changes on the offensive side of the ball
[00:02:39.460]in particular, the kicking game in particular,
[00:02:42.470]looking forward to kind of seeing
[00:02:43.660]some first glimpses of that, some new players certainly
[00:02:46.710]that we've brought into the program.
[00:02:49.810]So exciting time to be in the stadium
[00:02:51.760]and be able to see that kind of first look.
[00:02:54.045]I have to admit,
[00:02:55.580]every time I kind of lead up to Spring Game,
[00:02:58.410]I remember the year that we had the big lightning storm
[00:03:01.030]and TO was the athletic director,
[00:03:03.050]and we had to cancel it
[00:03:04.284]before too far into the Red-White Game.
[00:03:06.790]And TO was trying to figure out
[00:03:08.530]what to do with all the runs.
[00:03:09.670]So, you know, this time, we're gonna eat all the runs.
[00:03:12.970]But looking forward to seeing the team on the field.
[00:03:15.580]No doubt.
[00:03:16.413]Well, you mentioned spring,
[00:03:17.460]it's such a critical time of the year in our state
[00:03:19.420]because of our big agriculture presence
[00:03:22.040]here in the state of Nebraska,
[00:03:23.100]the university is a global leader
[00:03:24.684]in ag research and extension.
[00:03:26.881]Let's talk about some things that may be new
[00:03:29.250]in the ag related work that's being done at the university.
[00:03:31.950]Yeah, so, we do pride ourselves, of course,
[00:03:34.630]of being one of the top institutions in the world
[00:03:37.490]in the field of agriculture and natural resources,
[00:03:40.000]and the work that we've done historically here
[00:03:42.666]and continued to do and to lead in that arena.
[00:03:46.257]But a couple of things currently,
[00:03:50.470]one that's newer, and one that is continuing work
[00:03:54.160]that we're continuing to lead around the world.
[00:03:56.850]The first is in the area of meat science,
[00:03:59.544]where we've had a long history here
[00:04:02.570]in terms of meat science, so Nebraska happens to be
[00:04:05.500]the leading red meat producing state in the United States,
[00:04:08.500]one of the largest in the world centered here directly
[00:04:12.210]in the state in Nebraska.
[00:04:14.040]And, of course, everyone knows we're the beef state
[00:04:16.597]and are proud of that.
[00:04:19.120]But most recently, we have launched into a program
[00:04:23.721]to develop the new, small plant, meat plant of the future,
[00:04:28.429]small plant of the future concept.
[00:04:31.259]If you remember back at the beginning of the pandemic,
[00:04:34.110]there was a lot of concern about the flow of meat
[00:04:37.360]and the supply chain,
[00:04:38.670]and the fact that our meat production
[00:04:40.670]is now concentrated very heavily
[00:04:42.560]in the large big three packing companies,
[00:04:45.720]which is good as well, but a need for diversification
[00:04:50.110]into small meat producing plants
[00:04:52.330]and diversifying that industry.
[00:04:54.650]So in February, we announced
[00:04:56.424]the Nebraska Association of Meat Processors
[00:04:59.160]Annual Convention in Grand Island
[00:05:00.790]that we were planning to introduce
[00:05:03.160]this plan to develop
[00:05:05.270]the small meat processing plant of the future.
[00:05:07.934]That's to be located alongside
[00:05:10.380]our animal science facilities,
[00:05:11.790]I'm a proud member of the faculty
[00:05:13.460]of the Department of Animal Science, as you know, Greg,
[00:05:15.720]I'm an animal scientist myself,
[00:05:18.310]and looking forward to the development of that concept
[00:05:21.700]and what that's going to mean
[00:05:22.970]for the diversification of the meat processing industry
[00:05:27.070]as well here directly ahead.
[00:05:29.486]And then secondly, this is an area that we've had building
[00:05:33.070]for a number of years
[00:05:35.360]in our Department of Agronomy and Horticulture.
[00:05:38.210]Agronomy and Horticulture, folks might find it interesting
[00:05:40.840]is the largest single department
[00:05:42.890]in the entire university of Nebraska system,
[00:05:45.590]it tells you a little bit about the importance of that area
[00:05:48.750]for the university long term.
[00:05:51.760]And one of the current efforts there,
[00:05:54.260]led by Dr. Patricio Grassini,
[00:05:57.230]Professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
[00:05:59.860]is our Global Yield Gap Atlas program
[00:06:02.324]that's now used worldwide,
[00:06:05.510]developed by Patricio and his predecessors
[00:06:08.294]in the Agronomy Department, that uses local conditions
[00:06:14.388]to estimate what the yield potential is for major crops.
[00:06:20.680]So corn, you think of corn for us, wheat, soybeans,
[00:06:25.360]rice, around the world,
[00:06:27.848]as compared to what these achieved of that yield
[00:06:32.180]and what those gaps are and why,
[00:06:34.490]from all of the factors that exist.
[00:06:36.680]So Patricio is now working with the Global Yield Gap Atlas
[00:06:40.800]around the world in 70 countries, all over the world,
[00:06:44.010]including in Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular,
[00:06:47.497]with a new project with Regrow Ag called Niche there,
[00:06:52.370]to optimize crop variety, placements, and yields.
[00:06:56.570]So just a couple of examples of
[00:06:58.614]kinda world-leading ag research that we have
[00:07:03.720]and innovation at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
[00:07:06.150]That is so impressive,
[00:07:07.090]and I know guys are itching to get back out in the fields
[00:07:09.400]and get the crops in the ground.
[00:07:10.720]It'll be a big busy time of year for them.
[00:07:13.012]Great to see you, enjoy the game today.
[00:07:15.460]Jane's probably fired up, right?
[00:07:16.710]She's ready to see this team. She is, yeah,
[00:07:18.040]that's an understatement.
[00:07:19.470]And we're looking forward to a great Red-White Game
[00:07:23.820]and seeing the team on the field and in action,
[00:07:26.650]and of course, anticipating and looking forward
[00:07:29.070]to that opening game in August in Ireland.
[00:07:31.160]Be here before we know it, great to see you,
[00:07:32.460]thank you, Chancellor.
[00:07:33.293]Go, Big Red.
[00:07:34.126]Ronnie Green with us here on our pregame.
[00:07:35.100]We've got more pre-game coming up next.

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