Ronnie Green Installation Walk-In Lied Center

Curt Bright Author

03/27/2017 Added

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Members of the University of Nebraska community reflect on their passions and the future. Shown to open the installation of Ronnie Green as the 20th chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 6, 2017.

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[00:00:00.635](blues guitar music)
[00:00:32.341]If I could do anything in the world
[00:00:33.498]I would want to design cities.
[00:00:35.760]So right now I'm trying to figure out
[00:00:37.221]how to revitalize a community in a way
[00:00:40.160]that minimizes the effects of gentrification.
[00:00:42.501]For example, if a grocery store is failing,
[00:00:44.580]a community can decide to make that grocery store
[00:00:47.882]up and running again and profitable again.
[00:00:50.762]I've only met with him a couple of times,
[00:00:53.120]but I really like Chancellor Green.
[00:00:56.000]He's a great guy.
[00:00:57.882]He seems very personable and very professional
[00:01:01.664]but at the same time, very easy to kind of be around.
[00:01:06.101]I think the best way he could change
[00:01:07.242]the university for the better is to stick by his word
[00:01:10.922]and stick by his actions and I think
[00:01:12.880]that's what he's been doing.
[00:01:14.581]What it means for me to be part of the
[00:01:16.304]University of Nebraska is to be part of a legacy.
[00:01:19.744]I have some pretty big shoes to fill
[00:01:21.120]because my father is Johnny Rodgers,
[00:01:22.960]which was the first Heisman Trophy winner for Nebraska.
[00:01:25.861]My favorite color is red.
[00:01:27.402]It's my father's favorite color
[00:01:28.640]and he told me it meant power for him
[00:01:30.821]so I thought maybe respect for me.
[00:01:33.280](blues guitar music)
[00:02:12.179]Kids are cool because they have imagination,
[00:02:14.778]they have dreams, they have hopes,
[00:02:17.261]they have crazy ideas and they don't care
[00:02:19.594]if anybody likes them or not.
[00:02:22.397]Really one of the greatest things
[00:02:23.517]about my position is being able to help kids
[00:02:25.656]to think about ways that we can help them
[00:02:27.901]dream big to help them achieve their goals,
[00:02:30.861]to help them never say no and how to really connect.
[00:02:36.234]The University of Nebraska feeds my passion
[00:02:37.776]in so many ways, it gives me the opportunity
[00:02:39.880]to come to work every day and ask new questions
[00:02:43.559]and to meet new people and explore new ideas.
[00:02:46.796]I've known Ronnie, Chancellor Green, since he came here.
[00:02:52.976]He is a passionate man.
[00:02:55.032]He is a dedicated man.
[00:02:58.440]He will lead by example, and I think that's how
[00:03:02.017]we'll all be able to very freely and willingly
[00:03:07.219]join forces with him, you know work shoulder
[00:03:09.256]to shoulder with him in ways that are all gonna
[00:03:11.320]help us all succeed.
[00:03:13.037](blues guitar music)
[00:03:47.089]So in very simplest terms my job is to
[00:03:51.067]do research and couple this with scientific discoveries
[00:03:56.523]to understand our natural systems
[00:03:59.482]and that can be agricultural setting,
[00:04:01.905]that can be water sources, soil resources.
[00:04:04.806]How do you best manage those natural systems
[00:04:07.384]for keeping them healthy for future generations?
[00:04:11.126]University of Nebraska is one of the great research
[00:04:13.905]institutions and education institutions of course,
[00:04:16.903]but also having exceptional leadership
[00:04:19.102]at the university level can enhance our practices greatly.
[00:04:23.402]You know having great leadership has great impact
[00:04:26.325]on how people function at the university level,
[00:04:30.522]so I think we are very fortunate to have Ronnie
[00:04:33.025]for these leadership positions that he's been holding.
[00:04:36.223]So that's an inspiration for all of us.
[00:04:40.543]Secret to success, honest I don't have a secret.
[00:04:43.423]It's just I've been taught by my parents
[00:04:45.947]that hard work, honesty, and treating other people good
[00:04:50.267]will pay off, and that's what
[00:04:51.803]I've been doing my whole life I guess.
[00:04:54.064](blues guitar music)
[00:05:03.883](trumpet music)
[00:05:09.998]I think for me I just I looked at
[00:05:12.019]so many universities when I was looking at going to college.
[00:05:14.693]I probably did six campus visits and it was just
[00:05:16.995]one of those things I just, I kept coming
[00:05:18.659]back to Nebraska, back to Nebraska, back to Nebraska
[00:05:21.174]and after I've done a few of these,
[00:05:22.216]you know why ignore it?
[00:05:23.859]Let's make happen what apparently is what,
[00:05:27.158]where I'm supposed to be at.
[00:05:28.499]Working at the university now, there's so much
[00:05:30.575]pride in the state, that the state has
[00:05:32.659]in the university and that the city of Lincoln
[00:05:34.659]has in the university and so,
[00:05:36.878]both as an alum and as a current staff member
[00:05:39.059]that's what I think about you know
[00:05:41.059]as we're bringing audiences to the Lied Center,
[00:05:42.757]these are people that they built the building
[00:05:44.622]that I work in now.
[00:05:46.062]That's what gives me a lot of pride
[00:05:47.379]working at the University of Nebraska now.
[00:05:50.259]He has a great voice himself.
[00:05:51.400]I've heard him sing a couple times,
[00:05:53.079]and I think we need to get him on stage.
[00:05:55.102]So I think that's a great component
[00:05:57.662]is having someone that's got a
[00:06:00.037]nice, big confident singing voice.
[00:06:02.462]That's a quality I'd like to see in a chancellor.
[00:06:04.643](blues guitar music)
[00:06:44.221]I really don't talk too much in class.
[00:06:45.821]Kind of quiet for the most part,
[00:06:47.376]kind of keep to myself.
[00:06:48.680]If I have questions here and there
[00:06:50.221]I'll say something funny just to lighten the mood up
[00:06:52.978]in class and everything.
[00:06:54.621]The education at Nebraska is top, top.
[00:06:58.781]Big 10 Conference, division one school.
[00:07:01.922]I mean what else can you ask for?
[00:07:04.220]Football players across the country,
[00:07:06.082]high school, little kids dream of going
[00:07:08.402]to a division one school, playing football,
[00:07:10.866]and chasing their dreams and I've been able
[00:07:13.282]to do that at the University of Nebraska
[00:07:14.758]so that's really a dream come true.
[00:07:17.575]You kinda like, in your own little phone booth
[00:07:21.357]I would probably say it's all compact,
[00:07:23.714]can't turn your head too well,
[00:07:25.656]can't see over your shoulder that much.
[00:07:27.554]I mean it's not as easy as everybody thinks.
[00:07:32.232]Chancellor Green is funny.
[00:07:34.434]Been cool 'cause I know he's from Virginia
[00:07:36.514]and everything, so he talks about Tech.
[00:07:38.252]We kind of go back and forth about
[00:07:39.650]the Virginia, Virginia Tech rivalry
[00:07:41.250]and everything like that so he's a real nice guy.
[00:07:43.549]We cut from the same fabric.
[00:07:44.909](blues guitar music)
[00:08:28.681]My experience here at the University of Nebraska
[00:08:30.866]has been one in which I've been given
[00:08:33.067]the opportunity to do the best work that I can.
[00:08:35.644]That sense of allowing me to reach for what is possible
[00:08:38.908]has been one of the encouraging things.
[00:08:42.044]Well for a while I was a lead singer
[00:08:44.005]in a reggae band, and frankly it's the one gig
[00:08:46.466]that I've done in my life that I miss.
[00:08:49.186]Yeah, when I turn 60 I'm going to bring the band back
[00:08:51.868]and that's what we're gonna do
[00:08:53.025]so that's my secret plan, and nobody knows about it.
[00:08:56.484](chuckles)
[00:08:58.348]Well one of the things I'm very excited about
[00:09:00.146]first of all is Chancellor Green's vision
[00:09:02.306]that you know that we're going to have a larger university,
[00:09:05.388]but I'm particularly interested in seeing
[00:09:07.767]more people of color, more minorities
[00:09:09.308]and really to be honest more African American presence here.
[00:09:12.785]I think a university, a community,
[00:09:16.508]sometimes has to change its sense of identity
[00:09:19.308]so that it is welcoming to people of different
[00:09:22.044]backgrounds and experiences, and that's my hope
[00:09:24.706]for the University of Nebraska
[00:09:26.007]that we'll be flexible enough to welcome people
[00:09:28.623]from different parts of the world
[00:09:29.984]and different parts of the American experience.
[00:09:32.386](blues guitar music)
[00:09:42.219]I love being part of an academic institution.
[00:09:45.376]The opportunity to continue to learn every day,
[00:09:48.759]be part of a community where learning is valued,
[00:09:52.460]and really helping develop and train
[00:09:55.842]the future business leaders of this community.
[00:09:58.300]I had a graduate student that I was working with
[00:10:00.178]and when he got his job offer,
[00:10:02.540]I felt like a proud, you know a proud parent.
[00:10:06.119]I think Chancellor Green embodies what it means
[00:10:08.482]to be a servant leader.
[00:10:09.954]I think that he has the ability to bring together
[00:10:14.460]people from varying backgrounds
[00:10:16.402]with varying perspectives, that will help him
[00:10:19.922]achieve his ambitious goals for this university.
[00:10:23.682]What am I passionate about is
[00:10:25.399]making an impact in this world.
[00:10:27.458]Making sure that our university is connecting well
[00:10:31.836]with community stakeholders, helping us all
[00:10:36.316]have a greater impact in this world.
[00:10:38.578]I want to leave this world a better place.
[00:10:40.714](blues guitar music)
[00:11:27.780]I'd say one word to describe me is
[00:11:31.180]an explorer.
[00:11:32.424]For me it was a matter of keeping up
[00:11:34.285]the discovery and every time I found something
[00:11:37.362]that I felt very strongly about,
[00:11:39.506]going in that path, taking those courses.
[00:11:41.725]It really makes a difference having had
[00:11:43.200]the chance to do all my exploring now
[00:11:46.463]and then know where I'm headed next.
[00:11:50.322]My freshman year was the first snow day that we had
[00:11:53.842]in UNL for about five years,
[00:11:56.137]and usually Neihardt is very focused on academics
[00:11:58.600]and studying, and that day I just saw
[00:12:01.640]the whole dorm go a little bit insane.
[00:12:04.104](cheering)
[00:12:06.162]Actually my really good kind of core
[00:12:09.704]group of friends I ended up getting
[00:12:12.141]out of my job at the Ross Theater
[00:12:15.096]and it was not something I'd expected.
[00:12:17.698](popping)
[00:12:19.602]And it was just one of those things
[00:12:21.384]I knew I wanted to work with film
[00:12:23.620]and I knew I wanted to learn projection,
[00:12:26.040]so I heard that they had an opening.
[00:12:29.240]I went and inquired about it, I got the job
[00:12:31.201]and then I ended up with two of my best friends
[00:12:33.922]out of the work there.
[00:12:37.064]Feeling like you belong and feeling like
[00:12:39.076]you have a place in the community is what makes UNL, UNL.
[00:12:43.720](blues guitar music)
[00:13:21.148]One word to describe myself would be passionate.
[00:13:24.988]My number one passion has always been people.
[00:13:27.106]Getting to know them, providing opportunities
[00:13:28.967]for people to get to know each other
[00:13:31.343]beyond their demographics
[00:13:33.868]and beyond their personal experiences.
[00:13:36.807]The university has done a lot to shape who I am
[00:13:39.788]and who I'm becoming.
[00:13:40.807]I think that it's helped me establish my values
[00:13:43.307]and my morals and my goals, and so so much of who I am
[00:13:46.370]is because of the opportunities that
[00:13:47.906]this university has afforded to me.
[00:13:50.610]When I get to go places here, near or far
[00:13:53.730]and say I'm a graduate of UNL that will
[00:13:56.706]carry with it this huge sense of
[00:14:00.644]belonging and this self assurance
[00:14:02.908]that's been given to me by going to a university
[00:14:04.930]that believed in me and that I in turn believe in.
[00:14:08.145]I think that something Chancellor Green
[00:14:09.649]has already started implementing
[00:14:11.247]is this culture of accessibility.
[00:14:14.146]He has this unique ability to make you feel
[00:14:16.450]so important when he's taking the time to talk to you
[00:14:19.186]and I am so excited that he's chancellor.
[00:14:21.906](blues guitar music)
[00:15:00.281]I have always, since I was a kid,
[00:15:02.100]I've always wanted to be a physician.
[00:15:03.822]And I'm pretty excited about the opportunity
[00:15:06.219]to go to the University of Nebraska Medical Center
[00:15:08.340]next year to study medicine.
[00:15:10.541]As a chemistry major here at the university,
[00:15:12.379]I've had the opportunity to explore teaching
[00:15:14.521]and research and different volunteer opportunities
[00:15:17.524]and those three factors have really contributed
[00:15:19.220]to my desire to work with people
[00:15:21.481]and to help care for their health.
[00:15:23.961]Most importantly I definitely want to do that
[00:15:25.801]in a Nebraska setting, and so I really
[00:15:27.921]cherish the opportunity to study here
[00:15:29.121]and to work with people in this great state.
[00:15:32.698]To me being a Husker and being from Nebraska, it means home.
[00:15:36.477]I think of this campus over the last four years
[00:15:37.916]has really become my second home,
[00:15:39.558]and I'll look back on it
[00:15:40.657]as my career moves forward as a place
[00:15:42.636]where I developed as a person and met
[00:15:44.918]some of my best friends and really grew
[00:15:47.681]and developed as a benefit of this second home.
[00:15:50.977]I think more than anything else, he's an authentic leader
[00:15:53.958]and as a senior undergraduate this year
[00:15:55.857]I look forward to in the coming years,
[00:15:58.241]looking back at my alma mater and seeing
[00:15:59.636]the great progress that we've made
[00:16:01.038]under Chancellor Green's leadership.
[00:16:02.958](blues guitar music)
[00:16:12.769]My research interests, I develop biosensors
[00:16:15.671]whether it is for disease diagnosis
[00:16:18.118]such as you know HIV sensors or sensors
[00:16:21.375]to ensure food and water safety.
[00:16:24.092]I develop metal ion sensors for detection of such as
[00:16:27.494]lead, mercury, or arsenic in food and water.
[00:16:32.054]I think the main reason was really due to glucose sensors.
[00:16:35.275]I would say because my mother was a diabetic
[00:16:38.495]and glucose sensors was really very important
[00:16:41.755]that's something that drives me to the unknown right?
[00:16:46.315]You want to design something, you're very excited
[00:16:48.072]to see whether it'll work or not
[00:16:49.433]and that's number one is that's the
[00:16:50.678]research portion that drives me.
[00:16:53.078]The second part is the teaching and the mentoring.
[00:16:55.515]I also get to develop education and outreach activities,
[00:16:58.934]so my interest is to use innovative ways
[00:17:02.096]to communicate science to the public.
[00:17:05.296]I also develop my Harry Potter science class.
[00:17:07.574]We all don't need to be chemistry majors
[00:17:09.755]or engineering majors to
[00:17:12.214]appreciate science in everyday life.
[00:17:15.094]It's very important to be able to communicate science
[00:17:18.736]to the public in a different, in a different manner.
[00:17:22.534](blues guitar music)

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