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05/01/2017 Added

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Discussion of the incoming class of 2021, deadlines for incoming students, May commencement, and research exploring vaccines in pill form.

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[00:00:02.697]Welcome back, Sports Nightly here on a Thursday night.
[00:00:04.729]Thanks again to Teddy Greenstein
[00:00:06.478]for spending a little bit of time with us here
[00:00:08.068]to talk all things sports, from the Chicago Tribune.
[00:00:11.400]We are now thrilled to welcome into the studio,
[00:00:13.315]the University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:17.264]Good to see him.
[00:00:18.702]Mr. Green, the Husker football team
[00:00:20.368]just wrapped up a wonderful weekend with a spring game.
[00:00:24.030]Got some impressive student athlete commitments.
[00:00:26.711]And, well, that's the sports world.
[00:00:28.988]But you're certainly focused on some commitments
[00:00:31.099]of some incoming students, in general.
[00:00:33.458]What can you tell us about that?
[00:00:35.122]Well, Greg, they certainly had a great spring game,
[00:00:37.846]and it was great to see so many future recruits here
[00:00:41.790]and commitments that came about during the weekend.
[00:00:44.515]Mike's right, it was a postcard weekend in every way.
[00:00:47.686]But this time of year, you know,
[00:00:50.776]we're thinking forward to next year.
[00:00:52.926]We're winding down for commencement,
[00:00:55.322]coming up here shortly for a lot of students.
[00:00:57.482]We're gonna have another record level commencement
[00:01:00.043]coming up in May,
[00:01:01.749]but we're thinking forward to the fall class,
[00:01:04.394]and what the Class of 2021 is gonna look like.
[00:01:07.150]We've got a lot of excitement building
[00:01:09.136]because we're gonna be bringing online
[00:01:11.333]our new College of Business building.
[00:01:12.960]We're gonna be bringing online a new residence hall
[00:01:15.110]on east campus.
[00:01:16.207]They're gonna be welcoming our students
[00:01:17.997]when they show up here a few months from now.
[00:01:21.364]So, a lot of excitement about Big 10 education
[00:01:24.660]that we're building, you know, and offering here.
[00:01:27.431]And looking forward to that Class of 2021,
[00:01:31.045]you know, as they come up here for us very shortly.
[00:01:34.743]Very fun time in those people's lives.
[00:01:36.369]A lot of excitement, so I'm sure they're being hit
[00:01:38.857]with a lot of information.
[00:01:40.018]Are there any deadlines that they need to be aware of.
[00:01:42.132]Yeah, well parents of college students know
[00:01:44.972]that there's a lot of magic around the May one date
[00:01:47.896]when students make their commitments to the university
[00:01:51.460]or the college that they might be attending.
[00:01:54.310]So, you know we're right on the heels
[00:01:56.226]of that here, in about 10 days.
[00:01:58.106]When that May 1st deadline comes across to us,
[00:02:01.480]that's when we've offered out about 4,000 scholarships
[00:02:04.853]for that Class of 2021 across our state,
[00:02:08.679]particularly the Nebraska resident student
[00:02:09.512]Regents Scholarships and Canfield Scholarships,
[00:02:13.443]and the Chancellor's scholarships that we've offered.
[00:02:16.616]And they have till May 1st to commit, right,
[00:02:20.193]so to confirm with our Office of Admissions,
[00:02:22.470]and put down the registration deposit.
[00:02:24.385]We call it Deposit Day, you know,
[00:02:27.479]when we have our first real picture
[00:02:29.473]of what our class is gonna look like.
[00:02:31.872]So a very exciting time.
[00:02:33.905]It's not only first-time freshmen.
[00:02:35.527]We also have transfer students
[00:02:37.072]that are making those commitments,
[00:02:38.495]international students who are making those commitments
[00:02:40.937]to secure their place in that class.
[00:02:44.436]So we're excited about that,
[00:02:47.244]and it's looking like we're gonna have another great class,
[00:02:50.948]that we've been on this trajectory of growth
[00:02:54.367]and trajectory of changing demographics
[00:02:56.845]in our classes.
[00:02:57.742]The last number of years record, you know,
[00:03:00.180]kind of year we've had this year.
[00:03:01.889]So we're eagerly anticipating
[00:03:04.819]another kind of record like that.
[00:03:06.729]Also excited, as I mentioned earlier, about you know,
[00:03:09.411]we have commencement coming up.
[00:03:10.872]Sure.
[00:03:11.705]For our students on May 6th, and on May 5th,
[00:03:14.901]for graduate commencement.
[00:03:16.483]So a very exciting time, you know,
[00:03:19.044]for those that are going out into the world
[00:03:22.453]into their next steps, and celebrating that
[00:03:24.470]with their families and significant others,
[00:03:27.561]here in a couple of weeks.
[00:03:28.704]But looking forward to that 2021 class, as well.
[00:03:31.475]Absolutely.
[00:03:32.332]Well I want to switch gears
[00:03:33.309]and talk some recent research news that struck me
[00:03:35.833]as impressive, just in how some different researchers
[00:03:38.962]from different areas of study are working together.
[00:03:41.651]The research I'm talking about is how
[00:03:43.679]to deliver vaccines in a pill form.
[00:03:45.844]Well you know, vaccines are
[00:03:47.593]almost kind of like magic, right?
[00:03:49.835]So if you think back historically
[00:03:51.870]to ways people have fought disease
[00:03:55.080]and the whole vaccine movement that occurred
[00:03:58.462]in the last century,
[00:03:59.539]when we really began understanding
[00:04:01.122]how we could infectious disease by vaccinating people
[00:04:04.699]against measles, of course,
[00:04:06.038]is the one we all kind remember well,
[00:04:09.048]or polio or other really serious diseases.
[00:04:12.343]Well vaccines aren't, they're not easy, right?
[00:04:15.627]So you typically think of a vaccine
[00:04:17.737]where you get a shot, right?
[00:04:20.015]So it's delivered via a needle.
[00:04:22.330]Or vaccines have to be very carefully managed.
[00:04:25.991]They have to be refrigerated heavily,
[00:04:28.269]they have to be, you know, great care taken
[00:04:30.457]to preserve vaccines.
[00:04:31.594]And we're really excited about some recent research
[00:04:33.989]coming out of the University of Nebraska,
[00:04:37.773]about thinking about vaccines delivered in a different way.
[00:04:42.124]Delivered in a pill form, using one
[00:04:44.930]of Nebraska's most famous products, corn,
[00:04:47.445]you know, as a way to shield that vaccine
[00:04:50.169]in a pill form where it goes to where we would absorb it.
[00:04:55.154]So it's able to withstand the digestive system
[00:04:58.037]to where you can absorb it in the small intestine
[00:05:00.885]and deliver that vaccine in that way
[00:05:03.199]much more efficaciously,
[00:05:06.440]safer, and in a way
[00:05:08.614]that is simpler, right?
[00:05:10.544]So very excited about that.
[00:05:12.167]Three of our faculty, Deb Brown, one of our professors
[00:05:15.903]in virology, in the School of Biological Sciences,
[00:05:18.748]in our College of Arts and Sciences,
[00:05:20.701]working together with Angie Pannier in our Department
[00:05:23.509]of Biological Assistance Engineering,
[00:05:25.257]one of our tissue engineering and bio-engineers,
[00:05:28.431]leading scientist in that area, together
[00:05:32.006]with Amanda Ramer-Tait, who is in our food science
[00:05:34.816]and technology department, in our Gut Group, we call it.
[00:05:39.169]Got function group, Nebraska Food for Health Center.
[00:05:42.461]We talked about, on some of our programs this last year,
[00:05:45.916]she's an immunologist and works
[00:05:47.855]in the immunology area related to food.
[00:05:50.924]So they all three worked together
[00:05:53.084]to develop this corn-based protein
[00:05:55.886]that can be used to help protect the DNA of the organism.
[00:06:00.809]So often vaccines are delivered, actually,
[00:06:02.636]as a changed level of the disease-causing organism.
[00:06:07.552]You know, a modified viruses for example.
[00:06:11.167]They provide that immunity if they're introduced
[00:06:13.972]in a nondisease-threatening way.
[00:06:16.001]So very excited about that.
[00:06:18.404]That's a vaccine pill that now, we hope,
[00:06:22.635]will take hold and be able to be applied
[00:06:25.405]from this really kind of life-changing research
[00:06:28.861]of our three scientists.
[00:06:30.531]Has to be a lot of advantages to having a vaccine
[00:06:33.211]in a pill form.
[00:06:34.229]It's easy to store, transport, to take, all those things
[00:06:37.321]have to make a very--
[00:06:38.540]Yeah, as I was mentioning, you know,
[00:06:39.638]it's no needles, right?
[00:06:41.305]That in and of itself.
[00:06:42.360]You know, I don't like needles, most people don't,
[00:06:44.554]you know, here comes the needle.
[00:06:45.387]I run.
[00:06:46.320]You know, so that's certainly an advantage.
[00:06:50.267]There's a cleanliness, a sterile advantage to that, as well.
[00:06:55.915]And I mentioned, you know,
[00:06:57.707]vaccines traditionally are very difficult,
[00:07:00.432]can be difficult, depending upon the organism,
[00:07:03.642]to manage, you know, to keep and keep safe.
[00:07:07.217]Require various levels of refrigeration
[00:07:09.375]and so you, there's a safety factor here,
[00:07:12.224]where if you don't have to worry about those things,
[00:07:14.049]and you an delivery this in a much easier, ready-to-use
[00:07:17.016]kind of way, you take out a lot of those factors
[00:07:19.741]that make vaccine delivery sometimes more challenging.
[00:07:24.129]Wonderful.
[00:07:24.962]Great news.
[00:07:25.795]Great to hear of the collaboration here on campus,
[00:07:27.670]and keep those dates in mind.
[00:07:29.747]May 1st for incoming students,
[00:07:31.130]May 6 for a big commencement, and that'll be fun for you.
[00:07:33.286]Yeah, it's a great time of the year, you know.
[00:07:35.275]It's one of my favorite times of the year.
[00:07:37.954]Two most favorite times of the year,
[00:07:39.378]when students come and when students finish, right?
[00:07:42.715]So we kind of have those two things coming together
[00:07:45.323]at the end of April, and we're looking forward
[00:07:46.867]to the next class.
[00:07:47.700]And then, to know that they're coming to a place
[00:07:49.759]that's doing life-changing research,
[00:07:51.425]like we were talking about, from this effort.
[00:07:54.358]Great stuff.
[00:07:55.191]It's always good to see you.
[00:07:56.024]Yep, good to see you.
[00:07:56.857]Go Big Red.
[00:07:57.690]Ronnie Green, University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor
[00:08:00.102]joining us here on Sports Nightly.

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