Touched by Royalty – very unusual experience yesterday evening: shaking hands and exchanging words with Princess Anne, HRH the Princess Royal, and receiving an honorary scroll from her during a formal ceremony for induction into the @RAEngNews, held in the Draper’s House in London as part of a cocktail hour and black tie dinner event. Shifting venues today to the Prince Philip House, the agenda involved signing the registry, accepting the obligation and then listening to short talks by new Fellows and to presentations by leadership on the structure of the Fellowship, finally concluding with a history walk along the Carlton House terrace. Various pictures attached (professional photographs to be available at a later time). Honored to be inducted along with 75 others this year -- 7 of the 10 international fellows are from the US, including my friend @vardi, a University Professor at @RiceUniversity. In my case, this recognition is for research conducted over the last quarter century. As such, tremendous credit goes to all of the former members of our group (183 postdoctoral fellows and 52 PhD students, along with many dozens of MS students and several hundred undergraduates) and to our many collaborators, past and present -- most notably Dr. @aTonyBanks and Professor Yonggang Huang, senior co-authors on more than 75 and 400 papers, respectively! Thanks to all for a strong run up to this point – reflecting briefly, but turning quickly to next challenges,