Countdown to Kickoff interview – Oregon

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04/27/2017 Added

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Discussion of Husker Harvest Days, US News and World Report rankings, the Nebraska Food for Health Center, the Yuetter Institute Symposium, and Prem Paul halftime tribute.

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[00:00:02.612]Welcome back Canada Kick Off here on the
[00:00:04.105]Husker Sports Network, 2:36 the kick time today
[00:00:07.325]for the Huskers and the Oregon Ducks
[00:00:08.585]and we're delighted to be joined,
[00:00:10.060]as we will each and every week during the football season,
[00:00:12.453]by UNL Chancellor Ronnie Green who has had a busy week.
[00:00:15.491]You got your boots on and went out to Husker Harvest Days,
[00:00:17.971]I hope you didn't get muddy while you were out there.
[00:00:20.181]It was a little wet, you know we had a little drizzle
[00:00:22.231]all week here in the stadium which is good.
[00:00:24.822]But we got to see a lot a lot of good friends
[00:00:26.560]in the agriculture community.
[00:00:28.275]Husker Harvest Days is always a huge event.
[00:00:30.740]Every year they're in (mumbles)
[00:00:33.193]and lots of people looking for ways to try to be successful
[00:00:36.586]in the Ag business here in the state,
[00:00:38.200]it's good to see a lot of folks.
[00:00:39.416]It's a great show and it's good for the state,
[00:00:41.107]for the farmers who go out to see some of the newest
[00:00:43.445]gadgets and toys that they have to work with.
[00:00:45.221]Well I'm sure you were asked about Husker football.
[00:00:47.394]One you probably were also asked about some
[00:00:50.419]really exciting news the university got this
[00:00:52.477]with the U.S. News and World Report rankings that came out.
[00:00:55.362]Well everybody was wanting to
[00:00:57.394]show how we were going to win on Saturday and today
[00:00:59.985]and so lot's of interest there about today's game.
[00:01:04.019]But we always look forward to U.S. News and World Report
[00:01:06.963]coming out every year with our higher education rankings
[00:01:09.789]of institutions around the country.
[00:01:12.653]We were very pleased this year,
[00:01:14.793]our College of Business Administration made a big jump
[00:01:17.365]in the rankings up into the top
[00:01:18.701]fifty business schools in the country amongst the
[00:01:22.067]very elite business schools in the U.S.
[00:01:24.574]I'm very excited for that progress that our
[00:01:27.070]College of Business continues to make
[00:01:29.759]in the growth and size and in stature of CBA
[00:01:34.125]and I'm very pleased about that,
[00:01:35.871]very pleased about seeing the rankings come out.
[00:01:38.063]That's wonderful news.
[00:01:38.896]Alright yesterday, a big announcement here at the school
[00:01:41.628]involving the Gates Foundation and the Raikes Foundation,
[00:01:44.714]update us on all of that.
[00:01:46.580]Well we have been building a program at the university
[00:01:50.209]over about the last seven years in food for health.
[00:01:54.863]Not just talking about food now,
[00:01:56.869]but food catered to improved health and health environments.
[00:02:01.371]A big part of that for us has been a group working
[00:02:05.330]on gut microbiology,
[00:02:07.145]digestive system microbiology in humans
[00:02:10.882]in our food science program it's been called the
[00:02:13.602]gut function initiative here at UNL for several years
[00:02:17.779]it has reached kind of world renown status,
[00:02:20.642]and we were very pleased yesterday that we received
[00:02:24.587]a commitment from the Raikes Foundation,
[00:02:27.506]Jeff and Trisha Raikes are long time supporters.
[00:02:29.949]Jeff a native Nebraskan of the Ashland area
[00:02:32.775]here in the state.
[00:02:34.242]As well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
[00:02:37.168]a five million dollar commitment to help move us forward
[00:02:41.300]in a center for food for health that involves
[00:02:44.801]this gut microbiology group
[00:02:47.214]as well as our leadership at UNO
[00:02:51.084]and at UNMC in the Monroe-Meyer
[00:02:53.425]Cancer Center at UNMC.
[00:02:55.830]Tying together from food to health
[00:02:59.702]using this new area of research.
[00:03:02.087]So a very exciting announcement and very pleased about that
[00:03:05.504]support from the Raikes' and the Gates'.
[00:03:08.189]That's really exciting news and I'm sure our good friend
[00:03:11.547]Prem Paul was looking down upon yesterday's announcement
[00:03:13.964]and had a big smile on his face.
[00:03:15.549]I have no doubt Greg, we talked about Prem the last
[00:03:19.351]couple of times on the show here
[00:03:21.883]as we lost him recently.
[00:03:24.421]And the big impact and transformational impact that he had
[00:03:27.772]on our research programs at the university and we're
[00:03:31.050]really pleased today that we are honoring Prem
[00:03:34.136]during the game and the tribute at halftime
[00:03:37.243]to him and his legacy.
[00:03:39.062]And this is one of the things that shouted out in that,
[00:03:42.184]that I'm sure that he's looking down very excited about
[00:03:45.833]seeing the university take off.
[00:03:47.528]Great, before that tribute.
[00:03:49.553]Also saw in the news this week that you had a
[00:03:51.842]really big symposium that you had out of Innovation Campus.
[00:03:55.289]What can you tell our audience about that?
[00:03:57.264]Well last week at the game, the Wyoming game,
[00:04:00.903]We recognized Clayton Yeutter,
[00:04:03.080]former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and
[00:04:04.944]U.S. trade representative and native Nebraskan.
[00:04:08.015]Son of the university here,
[00:04:10.321]who has helped us to begin establishing
[00:04:14.329]Yeutter Institute for National Trade and Finance.
[00:04:17.639]On Tuesday this past week,
[00:04:19.664]we had Clayton still here with us
[00:04:22.400]and he was joined by Ishige-san,
[00:04:25.990]who is the chairman of the
[00:04:28.159]Japanese External Trade Organization that deals with
[00:04:31.889]trade coming in and out of Japan as part of their
[00:04:35.774]business ministry and their government.
[00:04:38.879]He came here to give a Yeutter forum lecture on our campus
[00:04:43.111]to talk about trade and specifically, the importance of the
[00:04:46.783]TPP or Trans-Pacific Partnership in trade that's under
[00:04:50.211]discussion now amongst a number of the Asian nations,
[00:04:53.628]including Japan and the U.S. as part of that.
[00:04:57.094]Very great lecture that Ishige gave here on the campus
[00:05:01.481]a number of our government leaders as well as faculty staff,
[00:05:05.442]students and business leaders across the state joined
[00:05:09.069]us on Innovation Campus on Tuesday
[00:05:11.399]to learn about the importance of the TPP.
[00:05:14.031]Very good, well busy week,
[00:05:15.564]thanks for the update on all of that and enjoy the game
[00:05:17.410]and we'll see you in Evenston next week
[00:05:19.025]for the first road game of the year for the Huskers.
[00:05:20.837]Absolutely, go Big Red.
[00:05:22.504]Ronnie Green, UNL Chancellor.

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