Baseball vs. Maryland

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05/08/2023 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about the Global Water for Food Conference and as part of it, the Heuermann lecture, featuring Land O' Lakes CEO Beth Ford. Ronnie also remarks on the recent death of Ron Hull.

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[00:00:00.120]Thank you, Ben, delighted to be joined
[00:00:01.470]by the chancellor of the University of
[00:00:02.820]Nebraska Lincoln, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:04.200]We're into the final month of the school year,
[00:00:06.450]final month of competition for Husker athletes.
[00:00:10.260]You monitor this as much as anybody.
[00:00:13.260]What's your expectations for the next couple weeks?
[00:00:15.420]Well, you know, we're in that lead up time
[00:00:18.150]of the year in our bat and ball sports to the
[00:00:21.976]really important part of the regular season
[00:00:24.690]and tournaments coming around the corner
[00:00:26.610]and with both our baseball and our softball teams
[00:00:30.060]the Big 10 tournaments coming up next week
[00:00:32.970]in Champaign in Illinois, and the baseball team's
[00:00:35.760]in a tight race, you know, in the Big 10.
[00:00:37.860]It's got a whole pile of teams clumped together really
[00:00:40.531]for the eight spots of the tournament
[00:00:43.590]that'll be in Omaha and a big weekend currently
[00:00:47.070]as well for our track and field team
[00:00:48.480]that are in competition season as well,
[00:00:50.580]men's and women's track and field
[00:00:52.350]are both in Bloomington this weekend.
[00:00:55.410]So just kind of rounding the bend, as they say,
[00:00:59.370]in our spring sports season and looking forward
[00:01:02.370]to the competition for all of these teams.
[00:01:04.590]Well, you mentioned all those things
[00:01:05.700]that are ahead.
[00:01:06.533]It's also a big week ahead at Nebraska Innovation Campus.
[00:01:09.780]What is in store this week coming up on campus?
[00:01:12.330]Well, there's a couple big events happening
[00:01:15.360]at Nebraska Innovation Campus starting this Sunday
[00:01:19.290]with the kickoff of the Global Water For Food Conference.
[00:01:22.920]So the Daugherty Water For Food Global Institute
[00:01:25.500]that we started here
[00:01:26.490]at the university back in 2010, remember really well.
[00:01:31.620]The formation of the Water For Food Institute
[00:01:34.140]and the work that we do all
[00:01:35.100]over the world in the area of water and food.
[00:01:38.432]One of the significant things that the Water
[00:01:41.910]For Food Institute has done is host a global forum annually.
[00:01:48.600]This is the first big one we've had like this since COVID.
[00:01:51.810]We kind of came out of the pandemic and they're kicking off
[00:01:54.990]their Global Water For Food Conference
[00:01:57.210]on Innovation Campus on Sunday going through Tuesday.
[00:02:00.900]So people from all over the world here is part
[00:02:04.380]of that conference and talking about all
[00:02:07.350]of the issues that are associated
[00:02:09.060]with preserving and conserving
[00:02:10.890]and using our water wisely in the food system.
[00:02:15.270]And also alongside of the Water For Food Conference,
[00:02:19.380]a big Herman lecture.
[00:02:20.940]The Herman lectures are honor lectures that are part
[00:02:25.170]of our Institute of Ag and Natural Resources,
[00:02:27.570]and there's one being joint with the Global Water
[00:02:30.600]For Food Conference this week where Beth Ford
[00:02:33.990]who is the CEO and president of Land of Lakes Company
[00:02:37.459]in Michigan, one of the large, you know,
[00:02:40.590]Fortune 200 food production and ag business companies
[00:02:43.800]that's actually a farmer-owned cooperative,
[00:02:46.721]a century old cooperative, particularly in the
[00:02:50.662]milk protein areas.
[00:02:52.920]One of the things Land of Lakes is well known for
[00:02:55.054]and Beth is the Herman lecturer
[00:02:57.420]and is going to be coming and talking on Monday
[00:03:01.428]for that lecture with the Herman lecture
[00:03:04.830]and as part of the Global Water For Food Institute.
[00:03:07.140]And then I also just wanted to mention
[00:03:09.847]that we recently lost one of the great icons
[00:03:14.477]of media and journalism for Nebraska and the world,
[00:03:20.880]Ron Hull, who was one of the premier leaders
[00:03:26.010]in public broadcasting throughout his career.
[00:03:29.130]His long career here was one of the longest term
[00:03:33.240]employees of the University of Nebraska.
[00:03:36.330]He was 92, passed away a couple of weeks ago.
[00:03:40.410]His funeral services were just recently in Lincoln.
[00:03:44.310]So will miss Ron.
[00:03:45.660]I mean, he helped guide the development
[00:03:49.380]of public media in Nebraska going back into the 1950s.
[00:03:53.790]And Nebraska has been a national leader in that arena.
[00:03:58.350]I was really privileged to know Ron well
[00:04:01.290]and get to know him well over the last couple of decades
[00:04:04.710]of his life.
[00:04:05.543]And he was good friends with Dick Cavett
[00:04:08.970]and had the privilege of going to see Dick with him
[00:04:13.470]in his last visit with him here just in the last year.
[00:04:16.260]So a big loss, a wonderful life that Ron Hull lived
[00:04:20.730]and the contributions he made to media and broadcasting.
[00:04:24.330]Truly an icon.
[00:04:25.163]I appreciate you as being a member of that industry.
[00:04:27.030]Appreciate you mentioning Ron, we dearly, dearly missed.
[00:04:29.580]Good to see you.
[00:04:30.898]Have a great week.
[00:04:31.815]Yeah, well, as always, go Big Red.
[00:04:33.570]Beat the Terps.
[00:04:34.403]Ronnie Green with us here on our pregame.
[00:04:35.850]We're back with First Pitch Huskers
[00:04:37.410]and the Maryland Terrapins.
[00:04:38.520]That's coming up next.

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