 It's an extremely exciting time to be a student here, it's an exciting time to be a faculty member here. UWM recently received recognition of its research activity. You're gaining national and international recognition and I see that day by day. Being granted R1 status is a recognition of what we've been doing for a long time and there's just example after example of our faculty with expertise, some of the top faculty in the world that are right here at UWM making differences. There's only 115 with this designation. A lot of it is really innovation. I'm really after innovation. Maybe the byproduct is the saving the planet. And as a research institution I think we all should aim for these ambitious problems to solve. Every day when I drive to work I pass by things that have been done by UWM Milwaukee engineers. It's impossible not to. They've gone wide and far in terms of starting their own companies or rising to the top ranks of Fortune 500 companies. It's automatically and dramatically affecting our economy here so I've never seen a university on steroids when it comes to entrepreneurship like I've seen at UWM. The students coming out of the university can come into the corporations and immediately have an impact. My alumni are producing in places like GE Healthcare, Briggs and Stratton, Harley-Davidson. It makes me excited about coming to work each day. We have a world class university located in the hub of the state of Wisconsin's economic activity. The Zoom interchange is the business interchange in the entire state over 300,000 vehicles a day and when you know the work that you're going to do is going to improve safety for all those travelers and get them through the interchange more quickly it's going to be a huge accomplishment. We scientists try to find ways to save people's lives, prevent injuries and make work easier. I talked to engineers that are creating the future for healthcare and they came from UWM Milwaukee. So the impact of the college is felt in many different ways and spread across many different regions not just here in southeast Wisconsin but throughout the world. I see a very strong future for UWM Milwaukee. It is a school that realizes that its number one asset is that it's a school that provides high value at an affordable price. Fifty years of innovations and accomplishments that we're really proud of but even more than that the future is really bright. UWM Engineering is going to provide a way forward for new students to advance their careers and a way forward for industry to advance technology and make lives better for people throughout the nation and the world. It's the future that we're pointed toward.