Countdown to Kickoff interview – Music City Bowl
Ronnie Green
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05/01/2017
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Discussion of the bowl game, innovation in efficiency initiatives, energy efficiency on campus, the CRES system, the Water for Food Institute's Global Yield Gap Atlas application to sub-Saharan Africa, and vice chancellors Plowman and Boehm.
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- [00:00:01.836]Greg Sharpe back with you at Nissan Stadium in Nashville,
- [00:00:04.254]getting ready for the Music City Bowl,
- [00:00:05.719]just over an hour away from kick off.
- [00:00:07.356]Huskers and Volunteers, both teams
- [00:00:10.353]have some players out stretching and getting ready.
- [00:00:13.025]The specials are out kicking as we get ready
- [00:00:15.059]for this game here today.
- [00:00:16.283]And we're delighted to be joined here in Nashville
- [00:00:18.744]by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor,
- [00:00:21.153]Ronnie Green.
- [00:00:22.472]Great to have you with us, happy New Year.
- [00:00:24.097]This is your first bowl game as chancellor,
- [00:00:26.897]how about that? It sure is, Greg.
- [00:00:28.188]It's kinda hard to believe, you know?
- [00:00:29.496]It's already been eight months in the job
- [00:00:31.143]and I look back on it and I think,
- [00:00:32.261]"How in the heck could that
- [00:00:33.304]"have happened that fast?" Flew by, didn't it?
- [00:00:35.065]Great to be here in Nashville this week
- [00:00:36.972]and to have the opportunity to play.
- [00:00:38.652]You know, I haven't done that before with our Huskers.
- [00:00:41.826]To be in this site and be able to be in Music City
- [00:00:44.686]and to partake of all the talent here in this town.
- [00:00:47.331]People have had a great time,
- [00:00:49.177]Music City Bowl have been great hosts
- [00:00:51.338]for our team and for our fans.
- [00:00:52.786]Just came from a huge Husker huddle,
- [00:00:54.898]a lot of Husker fans, a lot of red here in Nashville today.
- [00:00:58.756]So I'm really looking forward to a great game
- [00:01:01.233]and a good day in Nashville.
- [00:01:02.593]Have you had a chance to go to the Grand Ole Opry
- [00:01:04.451]while you've been here? We have.
- [00:01:06.506]Our family got out, did a bunch of different things
- [00:01:08.906]and Jane and I had the opportunity on Wednesday night
- [00:01:13.017]to be on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry.
- [00:01:15.698]The Music City Bowl hosted the athletic directors
- [00:01:18.411]and the chancellors and the coaches
- [00:01:21.305]and their bowl committee there
- [00:01:23.769]and gave us a treat to sit on the stage.
- [00:01:25.884]I said, if my mother was still alive
- [00:01:27.618]she would be just thinking
- [00:01:28.658]"Oh my God, my son's there,
- [00:01:29.977]"he's in the circle that can't be unbroken
- [00:01:32.837]right there on the Grand Ole Opry"
- [00:01:35.538]Great entertainment that night
- [00:01:36.900]with a songwriter named Roger Steele
- [00:01:38.756]who's had about 18 number one hits
- [00:01:40.898]by many of the country music greats.
- [00:01:44.066]So we've had a really good time here in Nashville.
- [00:01:46.459]I heard your wife enjoyed the show, right?
- [00:01:48.384]Oh, she did. You got a story? Tell us!
- [00:01:50.015]Yes, she did.
- [00:01:51.058]You know, that's the night
- [00:01:51.970]we played the Hoosiers in basketball,
- [00:01:53.755]right? Yeah.
- [00:01:54.825]And so we're sitting there
- [00:01:56.450]and he's in the middle of one of his sets
- [00:01:58.327]and he's doing this great music,
- [00:01:59.819]and I'm just totally enraptured in it
- [00:02:01.152]because I'm kinda a music freak
- [00:02:04.088]and all of a sudden Jane pipes up and goes, "Yoo-hoo!"
- [00:02:06.892]and she had just found out
- [00:02:08.470]that we had beaten the Hoosiers in men's basketball.
- [00:02:11.385]Chris and I, of course, was sitting next to her
- [00:02:12.660]and he kinda texted her and said,
- [00:02:13.603]"Jane, we just beat Indiana."
- [00:02:15.538]So he thought that she was really into his music, you know?
- [00:02:17.944]But anyway, [Greg Laughs]
- [00:02:19.186]no, we've had a great time here,
- [00:02:21.358]had our family here with us and it's just been a great week.
- [00:02:24.265]Very good. Well, our fans know about the ways
- [00:02:26.492]that the football team and the entire athletic department
- [00:02:28.775]is always looking for innovative ways
- [00:02:30.626]to help the players and get the most out of our resources.
- [00:02:33.794]And, of course, the university
- [00:02:34.898]innovates every day in research,
- [00:02:36.493]but folks may not know how innovative
- [00:02:38.630]you've been in efficiency initiatives.
- [00:02:41.684]Well, like you say, Greg,
- [00:02:43.872]we're a major research university
- [00:02:45.746]at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
- [00:02:47.346]the flagship campus of the system,
- [00:02:49.171]and that's one of our big missions
- [00:02:51.266]is to be a major research enterprise
- [00:02:53.754]and lead in so many areas in that way in the world.
- [00:02:56.836]But we also look to innovate the campus itself
- [00:03:00.219]and look for ways that we can be effective as we can,
- [00:03:03.014]be as cost-effective as we can as a public institution.
- [00:03:06.584]We're a steward of the people's dollars,
- [00:03:08.512]if you want to think of it that way.
- [00:03:10.593]And so one of the areas that we've been working hard in
- [00:03:13.026]over recent years is energy efficiency
- [00:03:15.199]and how we can become a more energy-efficient campus,
- [00:03:19.253]both from a environmental sustainability perspective
- [00:03:22.474]but also from a cost perspective,
- [00:03:24.272]how we can use our resources better.
- [00:03:26.596]One example of that is a specialized water tank
- [00:03:29.091]that we're constructing right now
- [00:03:31.237]that'll reduce energy costs, increase efficiency
- [00:03:33.460]of our heating and cooling system on City Campus.
- [00:03:36.530]Because on really, really hot days,
- [00:03:38.414]when we hit peak loads for cooling up buildings
- [00:03:41.346]or really cold days for heating up buildings,
- [00:03:44.012]using that chilled water as a means saves us
- [00:03:46.946]a pile of money, about $900k a year.
- [00:03:49.110]Wow.
- [00:03:50.044]That this new tank is going to help us with.
- [00:03:53.960]The joints one, we have a smaller one that was built
- [00:03:56.636]over on East Campus several years ago in 2012,
- [00:04:00.146]that's helped us tremendously there.
- [00:04:01.666]And then on Innovation Campus,
- [00:04:02.966]we're really proud of the fact
- [00:04:04.068]that the development of Innovation Campus
- [00:04:06.246]is built on a centralized renewable energy system
- [00:04:09.270]that uses chilled water coming out
- [00:04:11.339]of the water treatment facilities
- [00:04:12.997]out of the city of Lincoln that are located next to us
- [00:04:15.830]that is something like four times as much efficient
- [00:04:20.041]in use of the way we use that energy
- [00:04:22.628]to heat and cool the buildings there.
- [00:04:24.162]So we're looking for ways as we grow the university,
- [00:04:27.547]get bigger, to be more efficient
- [00:04:30.313]and more innovative with our facilities
- [00:04:33.905]and the way we heat and cool our buildings.
- [00:04:36.899]And the university continues to lead
- [00:04:39.007]in the topic of finding solutions
- [00:04:40.787]to grow enough food for the world,
- [00:04:42.873]the population that continues to expand.
- [00:04:44.513]Tell us about the latest study from the university
- [00:04:46.967]and what it means for this very critical subject.
- [00:04:50.213]Well, we talk a lot about
- [00:04:52.439]and understand that as we look out ahead into the future,
- [00:04:55.665]there are gonna be a lot more people on the planet
- [00:04:58.048]in not too many years from now than there are today.
- [00:05:00.141]We're at about 7.7 billion in people globally today,
- [00:05:04.121]estimate we'll be at nine and a half,
- [00:05:05.515]9.6 billion by mid-century mark.
- [00:05:08.695]And by the end of the century,
- [00:05:10.226]closer to 11, 11 and a half billion people around the world.
- [00:05:13.805]And that's a big jump,
- [00:05:14.908]you think about what it's going to take
- [00:05:16.533]to feed that growing population around the world,
- [00:05:18.693]we're all about that in Nebraska.
- [00:05:19.973]As you know, with the agricultural industry
- [00:05:22.893]being centered so much on the top of us,
- [00:05:25.205]and use of water that goes into that.
- [00:05:27.581]So one of the things that we've
- [00:05:29.805]been very excited about recently is a major publication
- [00:05:34.007]that came out of our Water for Food Institute
- [00:05:36.053]at the university in what's called
- [00:05:37.645]our Global Yield Gap Atlas applied to Sub-Saharan Africa,
- [00:05:41.951]where one of the biggest challenges
- [00:05:43.528]of meeting that population growth,
- [00:05:45.285]fastest-growing region of the world currently,
- [00:05:48.257]and the least productive in terms of agriculture
- [00:05:50.806]and feeding their people,
- [00:05:52.333]and this Global Year Gap Atlas is helping them
- [00:05:54.325]figure out how to do that
- [00:05:55.711]and how to close those yield gaps
- [00:05:58.093]that exist in those parts of the world.
- [00:06:00.097]So, very excited about that,
- [00:06:01.711]and the ways that that's contributing
- [00:06:03.725]to us being able to do that more efficiently,
- [00:06:06.191]with less water and feed a growing global population
- [00:06:08.599]in the future.
- [00:06:09.485]And I know we'll hear more about that topic in 2017.
- [00:06:12.439]We have not talked in about a month,
- [00:06:14.931]I know you've added a key member
- [00:06:16.565]of your leadership team, your cabinet.
- [00:06:18.493]What's happening here?
- [00:06:19.640]Well, you know, I said when we started down this path
- [00:06:22.463]last summer that I wanted to build
- [00:06:24.199]a real dream team of leaders
- [00:06:25.841]for our university moving forward into this next year.
- [00:06:28.485]And I could not be happier that, beginning next week,
- [00:06:32.372]first day we're back on January the 3rd,
- [00:06:34.765]I'll have two new vice chancellors.
- [00:06:37.011]The executive vice chancellor,
- [00:06:38.543]who leads the academic enterprise at the university,
- [00:06:40.973]is the number two ranking official at the university,
- [00:06:43.538]will be Dr. Donde Plowman.
- [00:06:45.101]Donde's been the dean
- [00:06:46.031]of our College of Business administration.
- [00:06:48.285]Came here the same time I did,
- [00:06:49.937]within a month of one another.
- [00:06:51.631]We started when I was in I&R job
- [00:06:53.686]Institute of Ag and Natural Resources.
- [00:06:55.791]Donde is a phenomenal leader,
- [00:06:57.427]she's done phenomenal things as the dean
- [00:06:59.142]of the business college these last six and a half years,
- [00:07:01.967]so she's taking on that leadership role.
- [00:07:03.887]Could not be more excited about having her there
- [00:07:06.336]to strategize and help us build the academic enterprise.
- [00:07:09.437]And she'll be joined by Mike Boehm,
- [00:07:11.280]who is replacing me in my old I&R role.
- [00:07:13.967]Coming to us from Ohio State,
- [00:07:15.437]he's been the vice provost
- [00:07:16.717]at Ohio State University the last several years.
- [00:07:19.197]They both start the same day,
- [00:07:20.629]the three of us are gonna lock ourselves up in a room
- [00:07:22.469][Greg laughing] and we're gonna get to work.
- [00:07:23.837]So couldn't be more excited about our leadership team,
- [00:07:25.441]the dream team that we're building there
- [00:07:27.517]at UNL to move forward.
- [00:07:28.869]That's fantastic, that's exciting
- [00:07:30.177]to start 2017 with that.
- [00:07:31.709]It absolutely is.
- [00:07:33.044]We're looking forward to another big semester
- [00:07:35.109]as we come back here in a couple of weeks.
- [00:07:38.816]And with the planning that we're gonna be doing
- [00:07:41.057]to move forward with the growth that we're expecting
- [00:07:43.041]in our student population and our research enterprise
- [00:07:46.237]and our extension efforts,
- [00:07:47.728]2017 is gonna be a big, big year for us.
- [00:07:50.049]Looking forward to it.
- [00:07:50.932]Thank you chancellor, enjoy the game.
- [00:07:51.952]You bet! Enjoy the game, gonna be great.
- [00:07:53.315]Ronnie Green with us,
- [00:07:54.265]UNL chancellor here on countdown to kick off.
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- [00:08:02.669]Huskers going through their warmups out here on the field.
- [00:08:05.293]Nissan Stadium natural grass surface for this game today
- [00:08:08.665]between the SEC Volunteers and the Big Ten Cornhuskers.
- [00:08:12.899]When we come back,
- [00:08:14.114]we will check out the thoughts of head football coach
- [00:08:16.349]Mike Riley as he gets prepared
- [00:08:18.653]for this Music City Bowl here in Nashville today.
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