Hi Peter,
For our Thursday, May 1 NIC Tour, we have had a lot of interest and will be adding a third rotation to the tour so attendees will tour the following spaces for roughly an hour each (the full tour is 3 hours):
* Food Innovation Center * Greenhouse Innovation Center * Nebraska Innovation Studio
The NIS tour will likely only be 30 minutes leaving 15 minutes for something extra.
Can you take a look at my proposed options below and let Molly know if there is one you prefer? Or if you have any additional ideas? They won’t have much times, but it’s a great opportunity to highlight something else, too.
Thanks!
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From: Frances Hayes fhayes@nebraska.edu Date: Monday, April 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM To: Molly Nance mnance@nebraska.edu Cc: Amber Poythress apoythress@nebraska.edu Subject: Re: May 1 Tour Good question! Let me think on this a bit more and see if Peter has any ideas. I have quite a few but am trying to think through which might be most appropriate!
Here are some random ideas:
* NUtech Ventures * National Strategic Research Institute * Food Processing Center (I think this is different than the Food for Health Center) * Eddy Covariance Flux Towers that are conveniently located in the field to the north of NIC. 😊
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From: Molly Nance mnance@nebraska.edu Date: Monday, April 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM To: Frances Hayes fhayes@nebraska.edu Subject: Fw: May 1 Tour Hi, Frances-
I'm thinking of ways we could take advantage of the extra 15 minutes we may have for the groups after touring the Maker's Space. Is there a speaker who would love to have a small captive audience for a 15-minute flash talk? Or is there an art display on the 2nd floor? Or, would one of our staffers or students like to give a short presentation on a project?
You and the rest of the leadership team may have some better ideas!
Thanks, Molly
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mnance@nebraska.edu
Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska<http://waterforfood.nebraska.edu/ >
________________________________ From: Jerry Reif Jr jreif@unl.edu Sent: Monday, April 14, 2025 12:42 PM To: Molly Nance mnance@nebraska.edu; Amy Hilske ahilske2@unl.edu; Vincent Stoerger vstoerger2@unl.edu Cc: Frances Hayes fhayes@nebraska.edu Subject: Re: May 1 Tour
We can do that. 45 minutes is a long tour for our facility. They generally average around 30 minutes.
Jerry Reif
Assistant Director
Nebraska Innovation Studio
2021 Transformation Dr Ste 1500
Lincoln NE 68508
402.472.5114
innovationstudio.unl.edu
________________________________ From: Molly Nance mnance@nebraska.edu Sent: Monday, April 14, 2025 10:16 AM To: Amy Hilske ahilske2@unl.edu; Vincent Stoerger vstoerger2@unl.edu; Jerry Reif Jr jreif@unl.edu Cc: Frances Hayes fhayes@nebraska.edu Subject: May 1 Tour
Hi, Amy, Vincent and Jerry
Thanks again for your help in coordinating tours for participants of the 2025 Water for Food Global Conference<https://waterforfood.nebraska.edu/explore-our-conferences/2025-water-for-foo... >, being held April 29-May 1 at NIC. The conference participants come from across the U.S. and several other countries and work in academia, government agencies, business, non-profits and farm production.
We've had more attendees register for the tours than we expected - about 55 people, which is a nice problem to have, but I know we need to keep the groups to 20 or fewer. I'm checking with the Food Innovation Center to see if we could add them to the tour schedule, so that we could rotate three groups of 20 each hour (2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.) I was thinking we'd host at group at each site for 45 minutes, giving us 15 minutes to walk between locations.
Would this work for you? Thank you very much for your participation! I know our conference attendees will be very interested and excited to see your work.
Kind regards, Molly
Molly C. Nance
Special Projects
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