today he is going to focus his talk on that research and so i am honored to introduce to you richard rodgers. [applause] >> thank you so much for coming. i really, truly appreciate this. it's so nice to see both friends and colleagues and students, i very much appreciate that. i need to -- see if that doesn't work. all right, here we go. i'd like to begin on a bit of a follow-up note, and that is that one of my close colleagues in terms of miranda research, dan truman, as many of you know, passed away several months ago. and he was a close collaborator, both with myself and others, was co principal investigator on the my nsf grants. probably one of the best collaborators on phil law and mental health. i got the privilege of working with him on two separate books. but just i think a power in this area. there's a picture of him. so it is to him that i would like to attribute this talk. and i increasingly teach in society and have to but knowledge that in receiving grants in the national science foundation that is in fact if you like what i say there greatly appreciative and if not, i'm asked t