The Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, a newly established $57M interdisciplinary center, research facility, and academic degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is re-envisioning the university for the 21st century and how students co-create and learn. Current areas of research interests within the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts include cinematic arts, virtual production + real-time filmmaking; motion capture; interactive + immersive storytelling; experience and speculative design; VR, AR, + XR; games, play + performance; embodied cognition; machine learning + blockchain technologies; sonic arts; IOT; physical computing; and entrepreneurship.