-: Halftime, the Huskers in Illinois.
I'm Matt Coatney, and as always,
we are happy to welcome University of Nebraska Lincoln
Chancellor Ronnie Green.
Ronnie, last week of the regular season
for this Husker team,
and I understand you might be making the trip
to Minneapolis next week for the conference tournament.
-: Well, that's right, Matt.
We are planning to be in Minneapolis next week
for the conference tourney, and I'm looking forward to that.
Certainly, we'd love to see our lady Huskers
finish the game strong today against Illinois,
and for a big Husker crowd to welcome 'em back home,
and for their last home game on Sunday against Northwestern.
It's always important to have good momentum
going into the tournament season.
And last year, you'll remember,
we had a nice big run into the Big Ten tournament,
and open an NCAA round game,
and so I'm excited to see what they can do
with the rest of the season.
-: And in the post-season,
you need to be able to score
and play tough defense.
Nebraska engineering faculty are experts
in defending our safety on the road,
and they're using that expertise to innovate
and make military bases even safer.
What can you tell us about their research?
-: Well, Matt, we have for a long time
in our Department of Civil Engineering
and Nebraska Engineering,
the College of Engineering here at the university,
been home to being a leader in the transportation arena,
and the engineering of transportation in our society.
We are currently the home
of the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility
that's part of the Nebraska Transportation Center,
and are the developers, or a lot of people may not know,
of the Midwest Guardrail System.
It's the most widely used roadside barrier system
that you see on interstate highways
and in our transportation system.
They are currently continuing the development
of a modified guardrail system around defense support.
So think of our military installations
that are under the US Transportation Command,
and they're working on a guardrail system there
that will be a much stronger defense barrier
around those critical kinds of facilities.
The culmination of this project will be the ability
of a new barrier to absorb,
think of a 15,000-pound truck
impacting at 50 miles per hour,
coming in at a right angle, if you will,
at a perpendicular angle to a facility like that.
This work leverages the one-of-a-kind installation
and the full-scale testing capabilities of the UNL
Midwest Roadside Safety Facility I mentioned earlier.
That is part of the Nebraska Transportation Center
in our College of Engineering
led by our engineering faculty,
involving students both in civil engineering
and mechanical engineering in that work as well.
This particular work in the defense arena is also tied
to our National Strategic Research Institute
at the University of Nebraska
that works on defense-related matters.
So big work, big important work happen
in the College of Engineering
and at the Nebraska Transportation Center
in this great work around defense.
-: I'm just always amazed everything that happens here
at the University of Nebraska.
Chancellor Ronnie Green, really appreciate the time today.
-: Yo, go Big Red.
-: Go Big red.
Matt Coatney with you more halftime comes your way
in just a few moments.
This is Big Red basketball.