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At Nebraska, we're planting a tree.
We're sinking roots in the ground
and growing strong branches.
It's our investment in the future.
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It's my great pleasure to welcome you today
as we celebrate a milestone in the life
of Nebraska Innovation Campus.
We ready?
Go!
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Nebraska Innovation Campus
transforms ideas into global innovation.
A state of the art greenhouse provides a
unique environment where research
leads to food for the future.
So we can do a lot more, very very quickly.
And more precisely than we could without such a system.
Research labs, pilot plants, and classrooms
at the Food Innovation Center
provide fertile ground for research solutions.
It's a place to address food safety challenges
and work with business to bring
new products to the table.
Working with the product developers,
with the faculty that is doing
applied research, it attracts companies.
Private businesses and start-ups enjoy
close proximity to faculty and students at the
University of Nebraska- Lincoln.
Those partnerships, and a vision of the future,
set the stage for success.
We believe the entire state of Nebraska will
benefit from Nebraska Innovation Campus.
We hope it will build economic growth for the state.
But will also assist our students and faculty
and improve our research profiles.
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In a dangerous world, UNL research
looks for ways to keep our country safe.
Projects range from protecting essential facilities
from nuclear attack to understanding the political
reasons behind international conflict.
Research crosses disciplines including virology,
political science, engineering, and space law.
As UNL's Associate Vice Chancellor for Research,
Bill Charlton works with faculty and sponsors
on defense related projects.
Charlton is also Research Director for the
National Strategic Research Institute,
a University of Nebraska partnership
with the U.S. Strategic Command
and the Department of Defense.
Our job is to try and keep really really bad things
from happening.
So chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon
attacks within or outside The United States.
So The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
bringing to bear its research capabilities can help
keep those events from ever occurring and help protect
our society and help make it a more peaceful
world for us to live in.
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Nebraska research harnesses the power
of the Sun with new solar cell materials
and fabrication methods.
With funding from the U.S. Department of Energy
and The National Science Foundation,
UNL engineer Jinsong Huang
creates more efficient, and less expensive solar cells.
We want to try to find alternative energy source
to replace existing energy to basically
to keep a sustainable future
for this world.
Turning sorghum into bio-fuel is the goal
for Daniel Schactman.
He leads a team of researchers from nine institutions
funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
These plants will create new opportunities
for producing fuel through this bio-economy.
And it also can have a new niche for what
Nebraska farmers can produce.
Climate change is expected to impact
agriculture and land use.
And that, in turn, affects ground water.
A team of researchers from engineering,
economics and community and regional planning,
studies how the agricultural system
will respond to climate change.
So we might see intensification of agriculture.
And we want to look at how that
shift in land use might affect groundwater.
Interdisciplinary work raises questions
that foster creativity and looking at things in new ways.
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Computer and electronic technology
becomes smaller, faster, more powerful.
Nebraska is a leader in the nano materials research needed
to make improvements.
Material science and nano science has a long history
of excellence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
For the third time, Nebraska's
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
earns a grant from the National Science Foundation
to continue its work.
It's extremely prestigious for University of Nebraska
to be on that map.
At the Cern Laboratory in Switzerland,
the world's largest atom smasher helps explain
the mysteries of the universe.
Part of the experiment is under construction
at Nebraska.
It's pretty cutting edge stuff and very exciting.
Aaron Dominguez leads a team of scientists
from nine U.S. universities in improving a detector
that takes a picture of the particle collisions
in the Large Hadron Collider.
The new device is more sensitive and takes
40 million images a second.
They're able to reconstruct a little track of where
the particles went.
And figure out exactly what was the kernel.
What was happening deep inside of this
particle collision.
UNL is now home to a regional research
data center funded by the National Science Foundation
and The Census Bureau.
Restricted federal data, made available through the center
advances faculty research.
It's a wonderful opportunity for our researchers.
It's a veritable data gold mine.
Our country benefits from social
and behavioral research in areas that include
children and families, education, and the economy.
A new consortium elevates UNL's research capacity
by building a strong research and referral network,
identifying and coordinating funding opportunities,
mentoring new faculty, and facilitating collaboration.
What we're going to be doing is strengthening
all of the operations around campus with this consortium.
Bringing people together.
And frankly, just growing the research base,
being successful in a very competitive environment.
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Get set!
Go!
A Department of Defense funded project
aims to ensure quality childcare for military families
who don't live on a military installation.
We partner with the early childhood entities
within that state.
And we provide training and technical assistance.
>From cancer to Alzheimer's,
nearly all human disease originates from
molecular interactions occurring throughout the body.
With a grant from the National Institutes of Health,
UNL expands its efforts to combat and treat diseases
by preparing more doctoral students.
The goal of it is to connect grad students
across disciplines and to build your tool set,
your skill sets to strengthen your research.
It's nationally peer reviewed.
It's very prestigious to have these awarded.
They are not that many of them in the country.
So it's a really huge deal for UNL to have such
a strong cohort of faculty and students
that we have merited this award from our peers.
Excavation records of an ancient
Pueblo civilization will soon be part of a
digital archive with funding from the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
You can search by site and look at all of the images.
UNL anthropologist Carrie Heitman
leads the effort to digitize photos, field notes,
and other records from the Salmon Pueblo excavation
in New Mexico.
The digital study of the Choco culture
provides access to scholars around the world.
We've created access, but now we've brought
the information together in a relational database format
that allows us to make sense of that information.
More than a third of Americans are obese.
A condition associated with heart disease and diabetes.
Obesity prevention is the goal of a new UNL center.
An 11.3 million dollar grant from the
National Institutes of Health
established this center for biomedical research excellence.
What we hope to make very succinct and very
important on compution is to
opposes dietary, opposes for combating obesity.
Research into rates and transmission patterns
of HIV and Hepatitis C in Puerto Rico,
may have an impact in Nebraska.
Sociologist Kirk Dombrowski studies social networks
to explore how disease spreads.
We really think we can make a difference in
the rates of infection in rural areas.
That's a great job.
When you feel like you can make an important difference
in ordinary lives.
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Through research and collaboration,
we are committed to making the world a better place.
One of the things I'm the most pleased about
in the last decade is the continued growth
and the momentum of our research enterprise.
At Nebraska, we're investing in the future.
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