Men's basketball vs. Indiana

Ronnie Green Author

02/21/2018 Added

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Ronnie Green discusses the inaugural class of University of Nebraska–Lincoln students recently named Innovation Fellows and the impact they hope to make on after-school programs in our state. Green also discusses the unique opportunity the university and community had to host Misty Copeland both as a performer and an E.N. Thompson Forum speaker.

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[00:00:02.669]We're at half-time, Matt Coatney with you
[00:00:03.980]and we are honored to have Chancellor Ronnie Green
[00:00:06.380]with us at half-time of tonight's game.
[00:00:08.770]You know, Chancellor, last week you recognized four
[00:00:10.589]University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who earned
[00:00:13.400]a place in an exciting new program that has the potential
[00:00:16.920]to create just exciting outreach opportunities
[00:00:19.010]for the state, what can you tell us about that?
[00:00:20.970]Well Matt, you know, we're really proud of all the
[00:00:23.700]26,000 students that we have at the
[00:00:25.710]University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
[00:00:27.060]and about a week ago, out at our makerspace at
[00:00:30.340]Nebraska Innovation campus, our makers studio,
[00:00:32.588]we were able to kinda launch four of those students off
[00:00:37.410]on a new fellowship opportunity that's funded jointly
[00:00:40.420]by a group called Beyond School Bells.
[00:00:43.350]It's involved in creating after-school experiences
[00:00:46.410]for students in the school system.
[00:00:48.350]Particularly in more disadvantaged schools
[00:00:51.520]or in disadvantaged areas.
[00:00:53.350]And they've put up now four innovation fellowships
[00:00:58.709]for four of our undergraduate students.
[00:01:01.150]To work together as a team through
[00:01:03.050]Nebraska Innovation studio, the makerspace there
[00:01:05.870]at Innovation Campus, to put together some new curriculum
[00:01:09.280]for them and to create some new experiences
[00:01:11.984]in a mobile trailer kind of lab that goes to these schools
[00:01:17.312]and after school.
[00:01:18.850]So very exciting to recognize these four
[00:01:21.180]and kinda outstanding upcoming students to be part of this
[00:01:23.830]first Innovation Fellows team.
[00:01:26.070]Well it sounds like a really special opportunity
[00:01:28.300]for the state and you were there to congratulate
[00:01:30.700]the four university students.
[00:01:32.290]How excited are they to be part of this inaugural quest?
[00:01:35.550]Well, like I said, it's the very first one
[00:01:37.060]so it's an inaugural, kind of group of these
[00:01:41.050]Innovation Fellows and these four students,
[00:01:43.660]in particular, Alison Cloet who is a sophomore,
[00:01:46.636]junior level fashion design major.
[00:01:50.090]She's from Sutton, Nebraska, we lived there
[00:01:51.820]for about 10 years of our life.
[00:01:53.980]She's a classmate of our youngest daughter, 4-H,
[00:01:57.794]a lot of background in creating and making things
[00:02:00.471]so Alison's part of that group.
[00:02:02.560]Caleb Kowalski, sophomore, mechanical engineering major.
[00:02:05.783]Mickey Tran, a sophomore in computer science
[00:02:10.310]from here in Lincoln.
[00:02:11.540]And Dana Hoppe, a sophomore in computer science
[00:02:14.030]and art major.
[00:02:14.863]So they're gonna be this team,
[00:02:16.978]I asked them when I was visiting with them
[00:02:19.767]in the awards ceremony,
[00:02:21.860]I said, how are you gonna go about this?
[00:02:23.360]They said we'll have an empty slate, they've told us that
[00:02:26.110]we're to kind of create what we want this after school
[00:02:29.600]experience to be for these students.
[00:02:31.700]About how to make things, how to grow and make things.
[00:02:35.150]So they're gonna start working this week,
[00:02:38.340]you know, they're actually at work now
[00:02:40.340]as these Innovation Fellows.
[00:02:42.180]Being provided a $5,000 fellowship.
[00:02:44.710]Big deal to them.
[00:02:47.200]As they move forward and so I'm gonna be really to come back
[00:02:50.850]at the end of the semester and see what they've created
[00:02:53.170]for Beyond School Bells.
[00:02:54.310]Oh my goodness, sounds like a great great thing.
[00:02:57.960]Well let's shift gears for a minute.
[00:02:59.710]The Nebraska Men's and Women's basketball teams aren't the
[00:03:02.380]only ones delivering great performances in Lincoln.
[00:03:05.720]Last week, one of the world's biggest names in ballet,
[00:03:08.550]Misty Copeland, performed on campus in front of a sold-out
[00:03:11.092]audience at the Lied's Center.
[00:03:13.570]What does that say about the arts on campus here in Lincoln?
[00:03:17.400]Well you know, a lot of people take for granted, I think,
[00:03:21.486]that we have this world-class performance venue
[00:03:26.200]in the Lied's Center for the Performing Arts
[00:03:28.110]on our campus.
[00:03:29.590]I was a graduate student here in the 1980's
[00:03:32.271]when the Lied's Center was being built.
[00:03:33.980]And I remember thinking as a person interested
[00:03:35.753]in music myself, how cool is that.
[00:03:38.850]That here in Lincoln, Nebraska, we're gonna have
[00:03:41.300]one of the world's leading performance venues
[00:03:43.490]and it's lived up to that expectation
[00:03:45.551]during all the years since.
[00:03:47.440]And this is a big deal, last Friday night,
[00:03:49.536]sold-out performance with the American Ballet Theater.
[00:03:53.849]Misty Copeland is one of the premier ballerinas
[00:03:57.510]in the world, grew up in the Kansas City area,
[00:04:00.628]has an amazing story of her own, how she overcame
[00:04:04.435]a lot of adversity and difficulty to rise to prominence
[00:04:08.760]as one of the great ballerinas of our time.
[00:04:12.267]Backed by the St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra
[00:04:15.800]as the opening performance.
[00:04:17.890]This was actually the opening performance
[00:04:19.890]of American Ballet Theater's production of Firebird.
[00:04:23.190]And just to have that on this stage here
[00:04:25.510]I think the Lied's Center Bill Stephan, our director there,
[00:04:28.470]talked about how this was a big deal even for the Lied,
[00:04:32.780]it was a big deal to have someone of Misty's talent
[00:04:35.766]here in that kind of setting
[00:04:37.580]and it was just abuzz.
[00:04:38.650]To be there, Jane and I were lucky to be there
[00:04:40.942]and hosted a lot of guests and it was an amazing,
[00:04:45.110]absolutely amazing performance.
[00:04:46.800]So thinking about bringing that kind of talent to Lincoln
[00:04:50.720]all of the time, I should add, Misty actually earlier
[00:04:55.890]in the week, on Wednesday night, was part of the
[00:04:58.370]E.N. Thompson Forum and visited with our students
[00:05:00.867]and talked about her own life story in that way.
[00:05:05.120]So bringing people like her to Lincoln,
[00:05:07.703]the Lied's Center is a big deal for us
[00:05:10.300]and we're very very very proud of that.
[00:05:12.770]Me and my family, we love the Lied Center.
[00:05:14.440]Chancellor Green, always a pleasure to talk to you.
[00:05:16.730]Thank you.
[00:05:17.760]Go Big Red, let's beat Indiana.
[00:05:20.020]Alright, that's Chancellor Ronnie Green,
[00:05:21.900]Matt Coatney with you.
[00:05:23.330]We're at the half, Nebraska and Indiana.
[00:05:25.730]We'll have more half-time activities in a few moments.

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