martin jischke is president i'm herris of purdue university and former president of iowa state university and university of missouri rallo. m.i.t. trained aeronautical eng near who earned fellow status in the american association for the advancement of science. martin's been awarded the highest honor any of us can achieve, an honorary docket trait from his undergratd yat alma mater, illinois institute of technology. how pleased mr. morill wou have been to have an influential advocate for american public higher education, a scholar who led two mere land grant universities and two chaired the boards of both nostalgic and the aau take as his topic today the morill land grant act investing in america's future. please welcome professor jischke. >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you, ellen, for that very generous introduction. we wish my two children were here to hear it. it is good to be back in lincoln and good to be back at the university of nebraska. we have enjoyed this first year of your participation in our conferen conference. the women sometimes and not sometimes, but it's good