Greg: Welcome back Canada, the kickoff.
Our chance here now to sit down
as we do each and every week
with a chancellor of the University of Nebraska Lincoln,
Ronnie Green back for an early game today.
It's been a while since we've had
an 11:00 AM kickoff game and chancellor
this is one of my favorite days of the year.
It's military appreciation day.
Love the pageantry of the pre-game ceremonies
that we'll see here in, in about an hour.
But this will be a fun time today.
Ronnie: It will be.
And it's great to be back in Memorial Stadium
for a morning game here in the fall.
It's a great, great opportunity for that.
And as we all know, as you said Greg,
Memorial Stadium happly named Memorial Stadium
built nearly a hundred years ago
in honor a World War I veterans.
So we actually celebrated
that hundred year anniversary here a few years ago
of the end of World War I.
It's always special to watch hustlers play here and
and looking forward to a great game today against Minnesota.
Greg: Well, you had a groundbreaking ceremony this week
on a new facility that's going to enhance teaching,
research, and extension.
What's gonna be the focus of this new facility?
Ronnie: Well, we did it, Greg.
We got a huge amount of building
going on across our campuses.
We've talked a little bit
about that on previous, previous weeks and programs.
And on Friday, just yesterday
we had the opportunity to break ground
on a new feed lot research and innovation center at our
our Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center
at Mead here, just north of Lincoln, about 30 or 40 minutes.
And it's, it will add
to what is already a world leading program in this area.
The University of Nebraska
for many years has been recognized
as the world leader in ruminant nutrition,
nutrition of cattle, in the feed lot industry in particular.
As you know, the feedlot industry
is heavily concentrated in Nebraska.
The beef industry, largest state
for the beef industry and the red meat industry is Nebraska.
And this new center presents an incredible opportunity
for our researchers
and the Institute of Ag. and Natural Resources
to bring together industry partners,
cattle producers, and UNL researchers
and students to advance sustainable beef production
through the beef feed lot industry.
New world, real, real world class facilities
with testing the newest in precision technology,
solving environmental challenges facing
the feeding industry, and of course
improving cattle performance and welfare
in the feed lot sector.
It is a key component
of the university's new beef innovation hub
that is part of our Institute of Ag. and Natural Resources
and has been supported in major ways philanthropically
to help us move forward.
The building of this new facility
with support from Greater Omaha Packing Company
the fifth largest beef packer
in the country pledged a significant gift to this.
As well as in support from JBS,
one of the major packers here, and the Closterman Family.
Longtime family in the feeding industry
and Farm Credit Services of America.
So just a, a range of philanthropic support
and private giving that is helping us
to build this world class facility
for our beef firm and nutrition group.
Greg: Visiting again with the chancellor
of the University of Nebraska Lincoln,
Ronnie Green, we talked about military appreciation day
today at the game.
Next Friday is actually Veterans Day
and I know UNL has a special scholarship program
for families that are affiliated with the military and, and
and even living outside of Nebraska.
What are the details of this new scholarship?
Ronnie: Well, you know, Greg, we
we are also one of the leading universities
in the country for support of military
and military dependent students and their families.
Just recently,
Military Times Best for Vets Colleges rankings came out
and the University of Nebraska Lincoln
was ranked number 29 overall in the country
amongst the very top in the Big 10.
Number two in the Big 10.
It's the sixth year in a row
that the university's been featured in that list.
And we've been moving up actually in the
the rankings largely due
to our military and veteran success center
that supports our our veteran students
and military family dependents here on campus.
Some 1,600 students on our campus fall
into that military or military dependent designation.
We have just started for this coming year
a new undergraduate scholarship program
the Husker Salute Pledge that's furthering our support
and commitment to the military community
by waiving the non-resident portion
of tuition for qualifying out-of-state students coming
to us who are veterans, or who are active duty,
or in the guard, or the reserve, as well
as their spouses and and dependent students to qualify
for in-state tuition to come to study here
at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.
So we're very pleased about that and we want to, of course
with Veterans Day coming up the end of this week to
thank our veterans and folks currently serving our nation
right now,
to salute their service, as well here,
in this Veteran's Week kind of game.
Greg: Fantastic.
Well, hopefully people that are in the military
will take advantage of that new scholarship.
That is a wonderful thing that the university is doing.
Always good to see you.
Enjoy the game today.
We'll see in, in Ann Arbor.
Ronnie: Actually now we got a,
another big one coming up in
in Michigan here in a week and in Wisconsin coming
the week after that back to Lincoln.
So we're, we're kind of
in this upper Midwest range here for a few weeks.
So, go big Red!
Greg: Ronnie Green with us here on Canada Kickoff.
Matt Coatney will be back with our Big Ten Bleds.
That's coming up next.