Baseball vs. Michigan

Ronnie Green Author

04/10/2023 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about two new research projects using robotics and drone technologies in agricultural, aquatic and wildland systems.

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[00:00:00.869]I thank you, Ben, Delighted to be joined by
[00:00:02.535]the chancellor of the University of Nebraska Lincoln,
[00:00:04.110]Rodney Green.
[00:00:04.943]As we get ready to play the Michigan Wolverines
[00:00:06.630]here today we've pretty much wrapped up
[00:00:08.220]all of our winter sports, Chancellor.
[00:00:10.050]That usually means postseason honors
[00:00:11.700]including postseason academic honors
[00:00:14.370]with a lot of academic Big 10 mentions
[00:00:17.700]for Husker athletes.
[00:00:18.597]And I know that doesn't surprise you one bit.
[00:00:20.850]Not at all.
[00:00:21.720]You know, Greg, first of all,
[00:00:23.070]I guess happy Easter weekend to everyone
[00:00:26.070]on this Easter 2023 coming up.
[00:00:29.280]You know, it,
[00:00:30.120]we have this longstanding tradition
[00:00:32.850]of Husker Athletics being a leader nationally
[00:00:35.910]in terms of academic success
[00:00:37.590]and academic support of our athletes
[00:00:40.050]and performance academically of our student athletes.
[00:00:43.560]And this year's no exception,
[00:00:45.540]we're coming off of kind of a record year
[00:00:47.460]in graduation success
[00:00:48.960]and kind of leading in the nation in that way.
[00:00:52.380]And we're very proud that we have
[00:00:54.210]60 winter sport Husker student athletes
[00:00:57.300]that have been named academic All Big 10 this year.
[00:01:00.960]Requirements to meet that designation
[00:01:03.300]for the Big 10
[00:01:04.133]is they have to be on the varsity team.
[00:01:05.850]They have to carry a cumulative grade point average
[00:01:08.490]in their studies of 3.0 or higher.
[00:01:11.760]So to have 60 out of our,
[00:01:13.920]it's about 10%
[00:01:15.630]even more than that, more than 10%
[00:01:17.820]of our student athletes
[00:01:19.140]that are competing in winter sports.
[00:01:20.820]That's so phenomenal.
[00:01:22.950]Two of our women's
[00:01:24.090]women and diving student athletes
[00:01:25.740]are carrying a perfect grade point average of 4.0.
[00:01:28.770]Emily Hames,
[00:01:30.570]who's a history psych major,
[00:01:32.550]and Jojo Rambi a biological sciences management major
[00:01:35.970]that's pretty impressive as well.
[00:01:38.130]And then also want to lift up
[00:01:41.010]one of our 11 academic all Big 10 wrestlers.
[00:01:43.950]Peyton Rob, who we know well,
[00:01:46.140]has competed so well for us as a Husker wrestler.
[00:01:49.830]He finished sixth at the 157 pound weight
[00:01:53.130]and at the recent NCAAs.
[00:01:55.800]And he suffered
[00:01:58.800]pretty serious illness after the conclusion.
[00:02:02.340]Right after-
[00:02:03.771]Actually it was happening kind of
[00:02:04.604]right at the end of the tournament,
[00:02:06.480]as I understand it.
[00:02:07.560]And he's been recovering in
[00:02:09.000]a Lincoln Hospital until just recently.
[00:02:11.190]So we're, we're kind of sending out our
[00:02:13.080]our good vibes to Peyton and his family
[00:02:15.480]who have been fighting this
[00:02:16.350]pretty serious health issue.
[00:02:17.790]And he seems to turn the corner
[00:02:19.470]and our prayers are with him.
[00:02:21.210]No doubt, well put.
[00:02:22.350]We're talking about smart student athletes.
[00:02:23.850]I wanna ask you something
[00:02:24.840]about smart robots that Nebraska faculty
[00:02:27.690]are using in new research products.
[00:02:30.270]What can you tell us about the latest
[00:02:31.830]in these new robotics research?
[00:02:34.050]Well, Greg,
[00:02:34.883]we have had for now
[00:02:37.020]well over a decade,
[00:02:39.107]a leading group
[00:02:40.440]in drone technology
[00:02:42.030]and our school of computing.
[00:02:44.250]It's the intelligent mobile unmanned systems lab.
[00:02:47.220]We refer to it locally
[00:02:48.510]around the university as NIMBUS,
[00:02:51.060]the NIMBUS lab
[00:02:52.770]that's recently received nearly 2 million
[00:02:55.320]in external research funding
[00:02:56.850]to advance its work
[00:02:58.410]on robotics and drone technologies.
[00:03:01.680]This, this group, the NIMBUS group
[00:03:03.690]has already created a company
[00:03:05.550]that's come out of it
[00:03:07.350]that is using drone technology
[00:03:09.240]in firefighting work around the country.
[00:03:12.060]I think we've actually talked about that before
[00:03:14.100]in some of our interviews.
[00:03:15.780]The most recent NIMBUS grants,
[00:03:17.550]these are both from the US Department of Ags,
[00:03:20.100]national Institute of Food and Agriculture,
[00:03:21.990]and another grant from the National Science Foundation,
[00:03:25.050]are enabling our NIMBUS scientists
[00:03:28.110]to push the boundaries of what robots
[00:03:30.150]can do in one of those projects.
[00:03:32.400]The USDA project, Justin Bradley
[00:03:34.710]who is one of our leaders of the NIMBUS lab,
[00:03:37.770]is focused on unlocking the potential
[00:03:39.810]of carbon sequestration.
[00:03:41.910]That's one of the approaches
[00:03:43.350]to reducing climate change
[00:03:45.840]or climate impacts
[00:03:47.700]that compensates farmers for leaving land untilled,
[00:03:51.930]and this drone technology is a way for us
[00:03:55.230]to be able to do that in a,
[00:03:58.162]a cost effective way
[00:04:02.070]to be able to measure that carbon
[00:04:03.990]stored in the soil.
[00:04:05.340]So great work being done in that project.
[00:04:09.870]And then secondly,
[00:04:11.250]Brittany Duncan,
[00:04:12.450]who is Associate Professor of Computing,
[00:04:14.553]also one of the leaders of the NIMBUS lab,
[00:04:17.190]is leading a three year
[00:04:18.360]National Science Foundation project
[00:04:20.790]to develop an integrated robot system
[00:04:23.400]to collect eco system data in the Arctic tundra.
[00:04:26.730]So you had to think of these drones
[00:04:28.830]as being able to, to go into environments
[00:04:32.220]where you can't be in that environment
[00:04:34.920]and collect these kinds of data
[00:04:37.020]that's similar to the technology
[00:04:38.700]they develop for firefighting
[00:04:39.870]and for actually laying and planning
[00:04:42.660]planned burns and planned fires.
[00:04:45.030]So great work being done by the NIMBUS Lab,
[00:04:49.110]by Brittany, and by Justin
[00:04:50.790]with these two big grants
[00:04:52.050]that have come recently
[00:04:52.950]to the program in the School of Computing.
[00:04:54.750]Thank you so much for updating us all on that.
[00:04:57.330]Happy Easter to you and the Green family.
[00:04:58.950]Yeah Happy Easter yet
[00:05:00.030]Tell everyone out there
[00:05:01.080]and go Big Red!
[00:05:01.920]Rodney Green with us here
[00:05:03.090]before the Huskers match up
[00:05:04.080]with the Michigan Wolverines.
[00:05:05.160]We're back with first pitch
[00:05:06.000]coming up next here in the Huskers Radio network.

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