Investing in the Future

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By making strategic investments, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has strengthened research and economic development in many important areas.

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[00:00:03.083](upbeat music)
[00:00:07.872]At Nebraska, we're planting a tree.
[00:00:11.487]We're sinking roots in the ground
[00:00:13.386]and growing strong branches.
[00:00:16.042]It's our investment in the future.
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[00:00:22.005]It's my great pleasure to welcome you today
[00:00:24.169]as we celebrate a milestone in the life
[00:00:26.101]of Nebraska Innovation Campus.
[00:00:28.309]We ready?
[00:00:29.428]Go!
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[00:00:34.517](cheering and applause)
[00:00:37.823]Nebraska Innovation Campus
[00:00:39.722]transforms ideas into global innovation.
[00:00:43.306]A state of the art greenhouse provides a
[00:00:45.343]unique environment where research
[00:00:47.764]leads to food for the future.
[00:00:50.260]So we can do a lot more, very very quickly.
[00:00:52.958]And more precisely than we could without such a system.
[00:00:56.425]Research labs, pilot plants, and classrooms
[00:00:59.358]at the Food Innovation Center
[00:01:00.777]provide fertile ground for research solutions.
[00:01:03.763]It's a place to address food safety challenges
[00:01:07.101]and work with business to bring
[00:01:09.011]new products to the table.
[00:01:12.051]Working with the product developers,
[00:01:13.971]with the faculty that is doing
[00:01:16.691]applied research, it attracts companies.
[00:01:19.698]Private businesses and start-ups enjoy
[00:01:22.280]close proximity to faculty and students at the
[00:01:25.095]University of Nebraska- Lincoln.
[00:01:27.421]Those partnerships, and a vision of the future,
[00:01:30.098]set the stage for success.
[00:01:32.498]We believe the entire state of Nebraska will
[00:01:34.343]benefit from Nebraska Innovation Campus.
[00:01:37.095]We hope it will build economic growth for the state.
[00:01:40.497]But will also assist our students and faculty
[00:01:43.163]and improve our research profiles.
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[00:01:55.557]In a dangerous world, UNL research
[00:01:57.701]looks for ways to keep our country safe.
[00:02:00.699]Projects range from protecting essential facilities
[00:02:03.856]from nuclear attack to understanding the political
[00:02:06.874]reasons behind international conflict.
[00:02:09.957]Research crosses disciplines including virology,
[00:02:12.676]political science, engineering, and space law.
[00:02:16.015]As UNL's Associate Vice Chancellor for Research,
[00:02:19.076]Bill Charlton works with faculty and sponsors
[00:02:21.572]on defense related projects.
[00:02:23.897]Charlton is also Research Director for the
[00:02:25.892]National Strategic Research Institute,
[00:02:28.398]a University of Nebraska partnership
[00:02:30.915]with the U.S. Strategic Command
[00:02:32.771]and the Department of Defense.
[00:02:34.915]Our job is to try and keep really really bad things
[00:02:37.283]from happening.
[00:02:38.607]So chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon
[00:02:41.721]attacks within or outside The United States.
[00:02:44.525]So The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
[00:02:46.806]bringing to bear its research capabilities can help
[00:02:49.526]keep those events from ever occurring and help protect
[00:02:51.446]our society and help make it a more peaceful
[00:02:52.907]world for us to live in.
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[00:03:01.446]Nebraska research harnesses the power
[00:03:03.887]of the Sun with new solar cell materials
[00:03:06.704]and fabrication methods.
[00:03:08.645]With funding from the U.S. Department of Energy
[00:03:10.981]and The National Science Foundation,
[00:03:12.965]UNL engineer Jinsong Huang
[00:03:15.098]creates more efficient, and less expensive solar cells.
[00:03:19.322]We want to try to find alternative energy source
[00:03:23.024]to replace existing energy to basically
[00:03:27.823]to keep a sustainable future
[00:03:31.982]for this world.
[00:03:33.582]Turning sorghum into bio-fuel is the goal
[00:03:36.163]for Daniel Schactman.
[00:03:37.977]He leads a team of researchers from nine institutions
[00:03:40.942]funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
[00:03:43.736]These plants will create new opportunities
[00:03:47.896]for producing fuel through this bio-economy.
[00:03:51.522]And it also can have a new niche for what
[00:03:54.861]Nebraska farmers can produce.
[00:03:59.509]Climate change is expected to impact
[00:04:01.196]agriculture and land use.
[00:04:03.032]And that, in turn, affects ground water.
[00:04:05.911]A team of researchers from engineering,
[00:04:08.151]economics and community and regional planning,
[00:04:10.690]studies how the agricultural system
[00:04:12.887]will respond to climate change.
[00:04:15.490]So we might see intensification of agriculture.
[00:04:17.932]And we want to look at how that
[00:04:19.915]shift in land use might affect groundwater.
[00:04:24.012]Interdisciplinary work raises questions
[00:04:26.572]that foster creativity and looking at things in new ways.
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[00:04:37.109]Computer and electronic technology
[00:04:39.050]becomes smaller, faster, more powerful.
[00:04:42.549]Nebraska is a leader in the nano materials research needed
[00:04:45.727]to make improvements.
[00:04:47.520]Material science and nano science has a long history
[00:04:51.178]of excellence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
[00:04:54.741]For the third time, Nebraska's
[00:04:56.277]Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
[00:04:59.295]earns a grant from the National Science Foundation
[00:05:02.122]to continue its work.
[00:05:04.159]It's extremely prestigious for University of Nebraska
[00:05:06.943]to be on that map.
[00:05:09.739]At the Cern Laboratory in Switzerland,
[00:05:12.084]the world's largest atom smasher helps explain
[00:05:14.964]the mysteries of the universe.
[00:05:17.203]Part of the experiment is under construction
[00:05:19.465]at Nebraska.
[00:05:21.128]It's pretty cutting edge stuff and very exciting.
[00:05:24.168]Aaron Dominguez leads a team of scientists
[00:05:26.643]from nine U.S. universities in improving a detector
[00:05:30.067]that takes a picture of the particle collisions
[00:05:32.487]in the Large Hadron Collider.
[00:05:34.727]The new device is more sensitive and takes
[00:05:36.647]40 million images a second.
[00:05:39.143]They're able to reconstruct a little track of where
[00:05:41.223]the particles went.
[00:05:42.503]And figure out exactly what was the kernel.
[00:05:44.540]What was happening deep inside of this
[00:05:47.324]particle collision.
[00:05:49.126]UNL is now home to a regional research
[00:05:51.559]data center funded by the National Science Foundation
[00:05:54.385]and The Census Bureau.
[00:05:56.038]Restricted federal data, made available through the center
[00:05:58.822]advances faculty research.
[00:06:01.105]It's a wonderful opportunity for our researchers.
[00:06:04.518]It's a veritable data gold mine.
[00:06:08.015]Our country benefits from social
[00:06:09.647]and behavioral research in areas that include
[00:06:12.304]children and families, education, and the economy.
[00:06:15.941]A new consortium elevates UNL's research capacity
[00:06:19.226]by building a strong research and referral network,
[00:06:21.818]identifying and coordinating funding opportunities,
[00:06:25.006]mentoring new faculty, and facilitating collaboration.
[00:06:29.263]What we're going to be doing is strengthening
[00:06:30.937]all of the operations around campus with this consortium.
[00:06:33.881]Bringing people together.
[00:06:35.684]And frankly, just growing the research base,
[00:06:38.585]being successful in a very competitive environment.
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[00:06:50.947]Get set!
[00:06:52.632]Go!
[00:06:53.956]A Department of Defense funded project
[00:06:55.875]aims to ensure quality childcare for military families
[00:06:59.353]who don't live on a military installation.
[00:07:02.350]We partner with the early childhood entities
[00:07:04.451]within that state.
[00:07:05.592]And we provide training and technical assistance.
[00:07:07.875]From cancer to Alzheimer's,
[00:07:09.848]nearly all human disease originates from
[00:07:12.376]molecular interactions occurring throughout the body.
[00:07:15.853]With a grant from the National Institutes of Health,
[00:07:18.711]UNL expands its efforts to combat and treat diseases
[00:07:22.775]by preparing more doctoral students.
[00:07:26.177]The goal of it is to connect grad students
[00:07:28.354]across disciplines and to build your tool set,
[00:07:30.796]your skill sets to strengthen your research.
[00:07:32.897]It's nationally peer reviewed.
[00:07:34.646]It's very prestigious to have these awarded.
[00:07:37.249]They are not that many of them in the country.
[00:07:39.350]So it's a really huge deal for UNL to have such
[00:07:41.611]a strong cohort of faculty and students
[00:07:43.990]that we have merited this award from our peers.
[00:07:48.107]Excavation records of an ancient
[00:07:49.867]Pueblo civilization will soon be part of a
[00:07:52.064]digital archive with funding from the
[00:07:54.292]National Endowment for the Humanities.
[00:07:56.586]You can search by site and look at all of the images.
[00:07:58.890]UNL anthropologist Carrie Heitman
[00:08:01.269]leads the effort to digitize photos, field notes,
[00:08:04.149]and other records from the Salmon Pueblo excavation
[00:08:07.028]in New Mexico.
[00:08:08.916]The digital study of the Choco culture
[00:08:11.092]provides access to scholars around the world.
[00:08:14.953]We've created access, but now we've brought
[00:08:16.873]the information together in a relational database format
[00:08:19.796]that allows us to make sense of that information.
[00:08:22.537]More than a third of Americans are obese.
[00:08:25.342]A condition associated with heart disease and diabetes.
[00:08:28.681]Obesity prevention is the goal of a new UNL center.
[00:08:32.264]An 11.3 million dollar grant from the
[00:08:35.016]National Institutes of Health
[00:08:36.798]established this center for biomedical research excellence.
[00:08:40.776]What we hope to make very succinct and very
[00:08:44.541]important on compution is to
[00:08:46.686]opposes dietary, opposes for combating obesity.
[00:08:52.798]Research into rates and transmission patterns
[00:08:54.931]of HIV and Hepatitis C in Puerto Rico,
[00:08:57.811]may have an impact in Nebraska.
[00:09:00.317]Sociologist Kirk Dombrowski studies social networks
[00:09:03.251]to explore how disease spreads.
[00:09:05.778]We really think we can make a difference in
[00:09:07.794]the rates of infection in rural areas.
[00:09:11.857]That's a great job.
[00:09:12.957]When you feel like you can make an important difference
[00:09:16.210]in ordinary lives.
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[00:09:20.135]Through research and collaboration,
[00:09:21.980]we are committed to making the world a better place.
[00:09:25.297]One of the things I'm the most pleased about
[00:09:27.558]in the last decade is the continued growth
[00:09:31.441]and the momentum of our research enterprise.
[00:09:34.579]At Nebraska, we're investing in the future.
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