- Welcome everybody from near and far, we have an audience on Zoom tying in, we have some students and faculty here attending the 2022 Spring Architecture For Health lecture series.

So my name is George Mann and on the stage we have Ray Pentecost, our director of our health systems and design center.

And in the audience, Cynthia Lockledge, raise your hand, I don't know if anybody can see you, but Cynthia makes things happen.

And Dan King, I always think of Sky King the cereal when I say Dan king, he's been very helpful.

So we have some students from architecture, medicine, public health, and is there some other group?

So today what I'd like to do is review some of the facets of your syllabus, which I think you need to listen to.

And the most important thing is not in the syllabus.

You always have to read between the lines.

My father did that, he read the white space and he was very good at it because he said the real news occurs in the white space.

So the real news in the syllabus is not in the syllabus.

The real news is here's a chance to come before leaders in the health field, health, public health, medicine, architecture, planning, and start identifying with them.

That's not in the syllabus exactly that way, but in order to help you do that, we hope that you have business cards made, and if I were a student, I would also have on my email, I don't know if you're able to keep your Texas A&M email forever, Autumn can you?

- [Autumn] No, we don't do that.

- So you want to start identifying yourself with your own email.

By the way, Autumn Leveridge has returned to the faculty in engineering, and she just retired from the United States Army Health Group as a Lieutenant Colonel.

And welcome back, we're glad to have you.

And so, we also ask that you have a signature line by next time.

So when you turn things in, we know who you are.

And I think that's very important simply because we're older, we've been around for a while and if we know who you are and know a little bit about you, maybe we can connect you with summer internships and permanent positions.

The official title of the course is Architecture For Health.

And how many of you have received this electronically or have seen this?

Well that's good.

I would spend some time going over it, it includes the Zoom information and I think Zhipeng sent it out to all our folks from overseas.

Zhipeng could you read out the names of some of the people who were online on Zoom?

Because we're not able to see them from here and at least the students can know their names.

- [Zhipeng Lu] There's a lot of them.

I mentioned Thomas from India - Thomas Shinko.

- [Zhipeng Lu] Dr. Chandra Shekhar from India.

- And Dr. Chandra Shekhar from India.

- [Zhipeng Lu] Yeah also Karen from Switzerland.

- Switzerland, and she's born in Austria like I was so she's a kinsmen.

- [Zhipeng Lu] Also Fannie Favilly - Fannie Favilly is from the Thessaloniki University, the Aristotle Thessaloniki University in Salonika, Thessaloniki.

The short word is Salonika.

Fannie hello?

Hello to all of you.

Anybody else?

- [Zhipeng Lu] And also Katelyn Worecker - Katelyn Worecker is a student here getting her master's degree and doing a medical facility for the native Americans.

- [Zhipeng Lu] Yeah she's pretty good and my student.

And also Wendy Wang, my PhD student.

- Okay.

- [Zhipeng Lu] And Nelson Pern.

- He's from HDR in San Francisco, he just joined.

- Okay joined from Nelson.

- Okay.

- [Zhipeng Lu] (indistinct) - Say that again.

- [Zhipeng Lu] (indistinct), my former student.

- Okay.

- And also Michael Wall from TG&W.

And this is the people starting on Zoom.

- Okay, that's good.

I wanted to be sure that I introduced Zhipeng Lu who is destined to be the last one standing by his age with all due respect.

Ray Pentecost is the Director Of The Center For Health Systems And Design.

So now I'd like to spend a moment, there's Zhipeng and Zhipeng is deeply involved with Ray, and Ray's gonna talk more about it.

The relationship to the UIA, which is the International Union Of Architects and they're headquartered in Paris.

And we also have a group called the UIA Public Health Group of which Ray Pentecost is the director.

Interestingly enough, Ray has both a architecture bachelor's and a master's in a joint program at Rice, and then he got his PhD at the University of Houston.

- Texas.

- Texas, sorry.

So very, very well credentialed.

So we look forward, don't be shy, and I can revert from an old guy into a third grader in record time.

And so if no one's asking questions, I may call on you.

So have a question ready, because we want to show this is about the students, it's not about us.

It's not even about the projects, it's about serving an hors d'oeuvre that gets you so excited.

I found something I loved to do, and if you do that, you'll never work a day in your life.

So I'm retiring and never have worked.

Isn't that a sort of an oxymoron, right?

But that's me.

I love doing this.

I rode away to 20 countries when I was looking for my master's thesis project, and I got one answer from the chief architect in India, Mr. J D Shastri, and we have his successor, Dr. Chandra Shekhar and India's population at that time was 430 million people and I think today it's about 1.3 billion.

So if you have any doubts about the needs or the future of healthcare, put them aside because it's like getting on a bullet train in Japan, that's not gonna stop at the station for you.

You reach out your hand and you hope it catches on to the train that's moving 180, 200 miles an hour, and it doesn't yank your arm off your shoulder.

And you just think of the next step, is how do you get into the train?

So right now, no questions are off limits, make your presence known and be interested.

So very quickly, I'm gonna go through this.

I don't know if the slides can match what's going on.

Dan, are they following this?

- (indistinct).

- I didn't quite- - (indistinct) - Okay, so I can skip through this.

Just so you know, this gentleman is really the father of healthcare facilities designed at Texas A&M.

He preceded me, graduated in 1953 and he died about 11 years ago, but he was doing a lot of work internationally and out of Wichita Falls.

His name is Alan Sharp, and we did a little dedication to him.

It's a little late, but better late than never, and his wife still lives and she's been a real supporter of our program.

And this gentleman is from Nigeria, and I think we have a student here from Nigeria and his name is Isaac Thompson Amos.

And he came with his family in the spring of 2014, and we presented the Akwa Ibom Thompson And Grace Medical City.

He brought his family earlier and then they came back on April 28th.

It was a big day.

It also was my sister's birthday so I remember it.

Then we have acknowledgements of people playing different roles on this.

And by the way, Cynthia Lockledge did this in record time.

It's unbelievable.

I've had so many compliments on this for you to relay Cynthia so thank you.

So Zhipeng and I, and Ray are gonna talk today, and next week, Ray's gonna introduce the Dr. Nancy Dickey, former president of the American Medical Association.

So what I would do, and I wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer as a student, I just hung around some sharp people.

I would get my picture on my email, I think Dan king has it, with your contact information.

And get your own email so that when you graduate, they can find you and start having a personality.

Imagine you have a husband at home with three kids that you have to feed, and so one of the problems I see with students is they're acting like students and you're gonna be entrepreneurs soon, or whatever you do.

Dr. Dickey, for the medical students here was the president of the American Medical Association.

And then on February 4th, Ray Pentecost and Dr. Zhipeng Lu will report on the activities of the UIA year of health, 2022, they'll go into more detail.

Then on February 11th, we have representatives from EYP, which is in Houston.

And I believe, Zhipeng help me was, Renee Fiala President of SHEA?

I know Jojo Sue was president of SHEA wasn't she?

Student Health Environments Association.

And we have the president here and we want him to introduce his officers.

On February 18th, two young ladies from HKS, one from Houston, one from Dallas, I taught both of them at different times.

She did a school, I took a vacation, we did a great school at Prairie View.

And Amy Acres did a hospital for Roatan Island in Honduras.

And then we have our speaker in the audience for a Friday, February 25th, Autumn Leveridge, who is, you can see her in uniform here.

And she retired as of?

- 31 January.

- 31 January, and I'm February one, yeah.

And then a real.

This fellow, Brad Perkins is the son of Larry Perkins who founded Perkins & Will.

And Brad Perkins didn't want to go in business with his father so he started his own company, which may be bigger than Perkins & Will.

I visited his office.

It's always good to visit offices.

So he's sitting behind the desk, he's about 6'4, weighs 250 pounds.

And on this wall is a six foot portrait of an older man and similar looking.

They all look the same so I said, are they both the same?

He said, no, that's my father, he was an architect.

Larry Perkins from Perkins & Will, and my grandfather was an architect who did work in China.

So when he came here a couple of years ago, he had done a a hundred trips to China on hospitals came a year later, he had done 110, and now I asked him when he's coming, how many have you done?

He's done 135 round trips to China.

Can you imagine?

So I sent in this syllabus Fang Fei phase signature lines, which I thought were magnificent because he showed his signature lines in English and in Chinese.

So right away, somebody knows they can operate in two languages.

Very, very important.

Then we have a build, if you go on Agronomy Road, they build containers, medical containers, and they just made the mistake of inviting me to be on their board.

They don't know yet, but I confuse men and women's minds, but they're gonna be presenting and they've done 34 clinics shipped all over the world.

And then we have Dr. Vincent Ohashu and Sean Polian presenting their ideas.

They are doing work in Nigeria, operating on people, and they want to build a hospital there.

And then finally we have, no next on April 8th, Julia Hagar and Chad Porter from EYP coming.

I'm sorry, HKS coming.

And then EYP on the concluding lecture, April 22nd.

Here are your officers, and we want to hear from the officers that are here in a moment.

And on the syllabus, I'll be done in just a minute Ray, and I'll sit down.

We listed here's Fang Fei's signature lines.

If I got something like that from you, that tells me that you are physically mentally here and do it so old people can read it.

And I can't read the Chinese, that's another story for another time.

Also included, I believe in the email was an example of Maya Kyle's notes that you don't know where these notes get circulated, but they're due a week from today electronically to Dan King.

And if you have any questions, contact Dan, and then if he can't, he knows whether I can screen maybe for Ray, because Ray has a big program.

We have, there's not letter grades here.

If you fail this course, I mean, you would have to work so hard to fail this course that it's unbelievable.

And so if you fail this course, the registrar finds out about you and they send you back to the first grade and you have to start all over again, see?

So I'm the only professor that has that arrangement.

You get an S or a U, no letter grade.

So the U is like an F and it's a one credit hour course, and if you do diligence between now and next week, you'll get in the habit and it won't pile up on you.

Let me see, Ray asked me, class attendance is 55% of the grade.

Quality of weekly notes is 25% of the grade.

Class participation.

If I had to call on you, or Ray has to call on you, or Zhipeng has to call on you, that's gonna end up into a U because you're not doing that 20%.

Boy, and get used to making a fool of yourself in front of people like I do regularly.

You just get up and speak so that you don't have to be driving that truck in west Texas for the a hundred thousand dollars that you're not gonna get here.

Let's see, anything that stands out that.

And for heaven's sakes, read this thing as boring as it is.

And the university is run by lawyers so they keep adding every semester, there's more boiler plate put in there, but it's important to protect you.

Any questions about anything?

I just got a text from my mother saying that I need to sit down and shut up, and I want to turn this over to our esteemed director of the Center For Health Systems And Design.

And it's a good thing you can't go back to the future to see what I was like as a student, because the few classmates that are still living that I had never believed that I was a professor.

They thought I was making it up, I had a letterhead made.

I went far from New York so you know, you're the person from out of town with a briefcase, they think you know something.

I learned a lot here at A&M, he was very good to us and anything, Zhipeng I left out or Ray?

All right, I can sit down with this still.

And get to know your classmates too.

You'd be surprised you might be working with them.

But Kurt Vonnegut said, "The definition of true terror is when you find out "that your high school classmates are running the country."

Ray Pentecost.

- Well done sir.

- Thank you.

- Welcome to everyone in the studio and to those who are online.

And just before we go too far, Zhipeng is this audio clear?

Everything good?

Great, welcome to those online.

It's great to have you with us today.

I want to share with you a little bit about the significance of this year, 2022.

And the story begins last summer, late in July, the International Union Of Architects had its gathering, its big worldwide gathering and a motion was proposed to the general assembly and the motion passed without dissent.

Now let that sink in for just a moment, roughly 104 countries gathered, voting on anything without dissent.

It's a remarkable thing to contemplate, but the motion passed without dissent.

And the motion was to declare 2022 the year of Design For Health.

That was significant, not just in the pronouncement, but that the world saw it as significant and worth supporting.

And so just a few weeks ago we began 2022, the year of Design For Health.

The Center For Health Systems And Design operates as the secretariat for the UIA, the International Union Of Architects' Public Health Group.

That's one of their working groups.

They have several on different topics, different themes.

The Public Health Group is the one that is focused on the year of Design For Health, but wonderfully enough, the other working groups are getting engaged from their perspective to contribute what they can to the year of Design For Health.

Now, what is remarkable about that?

The Center For Health Systems And Design is very outspoken about its program for Design For Health, and it says basically, well, it asks the question, we'll start with the class, and we'll throw it to this group here.

Can you name a building that does not impact the health of the people in it?

And we could kill the rest of the class period with you time to think about that, but you wouldn't get an answer.

There's no project that does not impact the health of the people who experienced it.

In one way or another, in one dimension or multiple dimensions of our health, the buildings impact us.

And so the position of the center is, every project from every practitioner in every practice.

And you see the alliteration, the EP, every project, every practitioner, in every practice, anywhere in the world.

You cannot escape the responsibility as a design professional for creating places that impact people's health.

And of course, the goal would be to impact health in a positive way.

And that's what we're focused on here at The Center For Health Systems and Design at Texas A&M University.

The motion that was approved last summer and which we are now heavily engaged and very busy pursuing called for three kind of general broad action items for this year.

And I want you to be aware of them, and as you hear them, think about ways you could contribute to them.

One of the three stated goals was to create an online portal, an online source where you could go to learn about design for health.

And that conversation, while not finished is active right now.

And what we're finding is that Design For Health information could come in lots of different formats to lots of different audiences.

It can come in the form of rigorous research.

It can come in the form of white papers, case studies, interviews, things like Ted talks.

There are lots of avenues for communicating content online.

We're excited about that.

People have rallied with creativity about what this online portal will look like.

And so we're eager to launch it, but we're not going to launch it until we have a pretty good feel for exactly how it can grow.

And actually the portal will survive long past 2022, the year of Design For Health, but it will be a way for us to remember when it all began.

The second goal was to create an international research agenda.

And as we worked on that, as we thought about what that might mean, we were challenged, and I'll throw the challenge to you.

You're working with countries all over the world, at this point, the UIA has about 104 different countries involved.

When you think about building an international research agenda, whose voice do you listen to?

Is it the country that is interested in where the best precise location is for an alcohol gel dispenser outside of a patient room?

Or where exactly to locate the IT, the information systems in a patient room to collect real time, live data?

Or is designing for health in your country, how do we capture water, clean water from rain in cisterns so that we can have clean water instead of waterborne disease that's crippling the next generation with a high death rate among children, one to five?

Is it about designing water purification systems?

Is it about designing erosion protection systems so that communities aren't washed away or forced to live in unhealthy conditions?

Is it about designing to protect people from extreme natural disasters?

Extreme storms, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes.

Designing For Health is such a broad spectrum, it's almost impossible to narrow down.

And the wonder of this year is that the world has come together and said matters to all of us, let's embrace the whole definition.

So we've got the online portal and we've got movement toward deciding, with an international agenda, we have to be broad in our thinking and that's so, so exciting, so inclusive.

Another thing that we are pursuing is the development of a design competition.

Now this is the first half of an item.

The design competition is for students.

And the goal is for that program to be refined very, very soon and heavily promoted around the world to design students.

With a competition that occurs in the next semester, the fall, with winners chosen early in 2023, with the winning projects presented at the next world gathering for the UIA in Denmark, in Copenhagen later in 2023, but the second half of that item is an awards program, design competition for students.

Design award program for professionals.

And so we're hoping that an invitation for various categories of Designing For Health can be made with projects brought from all over the world.

Can you imagine the range of projects and the creativity in design response?

Can you just imagine what it will be like to review those entries?

How much fun that will be?

I mean, yes, there'll be work as a jury member, but imagine the excitement of seeing the range of responses and how the international design body, the international union of architects can develop a plan to move forward and positively impact people's health.

The third big thing, and I roll the international research agenda into the first, because that'll be the forum where ideas play out on this online portal.

So the portal, the design competition and awards program, and the third big item is a series of webinars that will talk about tools for Design For Health, and the tools will fall into two camps.

There will be tools developed for use in assessing projects, how well do they work in protecting for health?

There will be tools developed to help people design for health.

Where do I go for research so that I get it right?

Where do I go to find out the best materials, the best technique, the best tools for creating health.

Health in our projects and health in our population.

So those are now being finalized, and the schedule will be produced.

I can just encourage you go to the UIA website, the PHG site in particular, updates on these initiatives will be out there for you to see and we hope that you'll be excited and we hope there will be ways for you to be involved, but what gets us up every morning?

And this is critical to us to understand our thinking to the extent that we can be understood.

What we're recommending changes two things.

And I want you to think for just a moment, how often in a lifetime you get a chance to do either, let alone both of the things I'm gonna mention.

Okay, you ready, listening?

Everybody dialed in?

The tools for Design For Health, will change the way architecture happens from this moment forward.

Think about that.

How often do you get a chance to change the profession that you love, that you've committed your training, and your career, and your life to.

How often do you get to be a part of that?

Of conveying the message that everything you touch throughout your career, every single project will impact people's health.

How do you get past the excitement that you can design a school and impact the intellectual health of the kids?

How do you get past that you could design health care facilities that impact the health of people who are sick, who need to be helped and the staff that needs to be protected and restored when they're exhausted?

Every project, every project for the rest of a career to impact health, that's changing architectural perspective, it'll take new tools, new design approaches.

How do you put a design hypothesis into a project?

Maybe that's gonna come out in one of our webinars on how do you use it?

How do you do research?

We're gonna change the profession, that's exciting.

But secondly, and just grasp this for a moment.

What we're doing will change the health of a planet.

How often do you get to even say that in a sentence with a straight face.

What we're doing, every project, if it's designed for health, we will impact favorably the health of a world.

How often in a career do you ever get close to something of that magnitude?

Let alone a chance to actually join it and be a part of it and contribute to it, and see it unfold right in real time, right in front of you.

The UIA got that vision, they captured it last summer and said, yeah, we'll play.

And they that motion, and the world's said yes.

So 2022, the year of Design For Health, and you got a front row seat.

Leadership in the Public Health Group for UIA, leadership in the secretariat.

Zhipeng and I are involved on a daily basis with this initiative.

If you've got questions about how to plug in, how to get involved, let us hear from you.

It's the most exciting thing, probably that I, maybe we, will touch in our lifetimes.

We're changing a planet, and I can actually say that with a straight face.

What a privilege, what a responsibility.

You need to be a part of that.

We'd love to have you.

Now that's the story on UIA, George, what else would you care to add?

- That was fantastic.

I feel like enrolling in your program and starting over.

We have in the audience, Fannie Favilly from the The Thessaloniki University, and I think she's on the council.

I may not have the right word for the UIA, International Union of Architects.

She is busy also with Nolwena from - Malaysia.

- Where?

- Malaysia.

- Malaysia, sorry Nolwena.

Nolwena's an interesting gal, she's got seven kids by the way.

She's not much bigger than me, but I didn't have seven kids.

And so they are working on the initiative of the association of schools of architecture called GUPHA G-U-P-H-A, Global University Programs In Healthcare Architecture.

So it's all the schools that have really varying programs that are very interesting and we usually meet at the UIA meetings.

So put on your calendar Copenhagen, isn't that what you said Ray?

There are all kinds of exciting things going on.

Also in March, the American Society Of Healthcare Engineering is having a meeting in New Orleans.

Now we haven't really discussed that because of COVID, but it could be if things are better and if Ray decides to do that, that a group could go down there and really meet people and find out what's going on.

And what's great about this, I don't care if you've been in the field for a day or for 50 years, there's always something new.

Somebody is doing something new, and it's changing and it's never the same.

So can't regard you enough.

Zhipeng, have we left anything out?

- [Zhipeng Lu] And Professor Fannie is in the Zoom, so she heard that.

- Okay Fannie, good to have you.

And she put on the UIA public health group meeting in Thessaloniki in 1998, we had a good time.

It's also a time to really enjoy local food and sites.

So the UIA could be something you, and if you work for a good firm and you get on the UIA, maybe they'll pay for your trips to these meetings.

So there are a lot of interrelated questions.

- Zhipeng did we get it right?

Is Nolwena Malaysia?

- Yes.

- I thought that was right.

I just wanted to be sure.

- And she also hosted the UIA.

Don't ask me what year, it was about 10 years ago, I guess.

And so there are a lot of things and you make a lot of friends and with Zoom, is anybody who can talk to you.

Now, if we were doing these by Zoom, Cam you felt that we would get better quality because these are uploaded to PBS.

So this is something that I'd like to, just we're talking about a lot of things.

Zach, do you have to leave or can you introduce your.

- [Zach] We can introduce ourselves.

- Yeah, why don't you come up by the podium?

Now this is the Student Health Environments Association.

Let's give them a hand.

(audience clapping) They send that invitation, Zach is the outgoing president.

Can I tell them where you're working this semester now?

He's working at Perkins & Will in Dallas and they have a big contingent of Aggies there and there's a David Wang, he got a new nickname for me, he's Uncle Dave.

and Ruben Zarate, he never had a Reuben sandwich until I told him about it.

And he's had that, yeah.

- Sanchali, I'm the graduate representative.

- Oh, great wonderful.

- At the SHEA.

- [George] What country are you from?

- I'm from India.

- Which city?

- In Calcutta, that is eastern part, West Bengal.

- Is it near Imphal and Assam - Yeah.

- [George] That's where my hospital was that I did from my thesis.

- Oh, I'd love to know- - [George] Will show it to you some time.

Why don't you take over.

- So I guess, so my name is Zach Raleigh, I'm the president of SHEA.

This semester, we're still in the process of planning events, but SHEA'S really looking at how health and design work together.

So we do social events and also networking.

So our big thing, we're shooting to do a resume workshop before career fair and have it kind of be a social event.

And then hopefully we can get an in-person career fair towards the end of the semester.

But if you're interested in joining SHEA, feel free to reach out.

I'll send an email out to everyone enrolled in the course a little bit more about SHEA and how you can get involved.

- [George] You have their emails?

I'll get it from Dan King.

- [George] Yeah, good.

- And then I'll let our other officers introduce themselves.

- Yeah, so Ruben Zarate, I'm the Director Of Communications for SHEA.

- Hi, I'm David, I am director of graphic design and marketing.

- And I said earlier, I'm Sanchali, I'm Graduate Representative at SHEA.

- Well thank you for doing this, it's very important and I hope you have a good time.

And I look forward to getting invitations from you.

I'm sure everybody else does too.

So let's give them a hand.

(audience clapping) All right, we have a few minutes.

I would like to ask each person in the room to come up here and introduce themselves one at a time, starting with Dan King, and then Cynthia.

It's important you get to know these folks.

Just tell them where you're from, it's gonna blow their socks off.

- Howdy, my name is Dan king.

I'm from Nepal and I'm currently masters in architecture graduate student first year, and I'm currently teaching assistant for Professor Mann, Professor Pentecost, and Professor Lu at the same time.

- [George Mann] We can all drive them nuts.

- Hi, my name is Cynthia Lockledge and I'm the administrative coordinator for The Center For Health Systems And Design.

- [George] Great Autumn.

- Howdy, my name is Autumn Leveridge and I am fighting Texas Aggie class of 1998 and 2013, retiring from the United States army in effect of in about 10 days, and the college of engineering has pulled me in, and the civil engineering, I'm an associate professor of practice funded by the Beavers Charitable Trust, a foundation in heavy civil.

I've known George for many years now, and have met Ray a few years back.

And Zhipeng I've known for many years, as well as many of the other staff and faculty in the center for health systems design.

And I look forward to future collaboration.

Thank you for having me here today.

- Glad to have you.

(audience clapping) Okay who's next?

Come on up.

- [Ryan] Hi my name is Ryan Cox.

I'm a senior undergrad in biomedical science here at A&M, and excited to be part of this class.

It sounds like a very, very good opportunity.

- C-O-X?

- Yes, yes sir.

- Great, good to have you.

All right who haven't we heard from?

- Hello, my name is Jacob and I'm a first year in environmental design.

- Oh, you're a freshman?

- Yes sir.

- Good for you, first time that's happened.

You got a last name, did they take it away from you?

- [Jacob] Jacob Perez.

- Spell it.

- P-E-R-E-Z.

- Perez yeah.

Thank you.

All right.

What about on that side of the room?

- Hi I'm- - Talk in the mic.

- Oh sorry.

Hi, I'm Abimbola Olorode, I'm a third year Masters of landscape architecture.

- Great.

- I'm from Nigeria.

- A natural environment which we screwed up royally.

- Hello, my name is Swapnil Dash.

I'm a freshmen business honors student and I'm also on the pre-med track and I'm really looking- - Pre-med and business?

- Yes, sir.

- Good for you.

Wow.

Where did you go to undergraduate?

- Right here, Texas A&M.

- Oh, you're an Aggie, good for you.

- Hello, my name is Peter Grant.

I am a masters in architecture degree.

This is my last quarter and I am also trying to get a major in also healthcare architecture.

- Okay I hear a faint English accent.

- Yes, the accent is actually a side effect of surgery down my throat when I was young, it varies itself from person to person, most people think I'm British.

- Oh.

- I'm actually mostly Greek.

- But- - Greek?

- Greek, yeah.

- From where?

- Greek, Oh, Fannie we got somebody, which city Athens?

- No, I'm born and raised in the US but my heritage is mostly Greek.

- Oh okay.

Good for you, welcome.

- Thank you.

- Yeah, we're a good crew.

- Hi, my name is Julian Vanish, I'm a freshmen public health major on the pre-med track.

- [George] How did you find out about the course from (indistinct)?

- Doug Cruz.

- Doug Cruz, oh.

Oh that's nice.

I just have a couple of things and then we can take some questions.

- [Zhipeng Lu] And the Zoom people on the screen so- - How do we do that?

- [Zhipeng Lu] How do we do that, I don't know.

- It would be great.

Well come up with the computer and set the computer.

- [Zhipeng Lu] We have (indistinct) from India.

(indistinct), can you just say a few words if you can?

- Imagine the chief architect from the government of India.

- [Zhipeng Lu] (audio breaking) can you introduce yourself.

- Is there a way of bringing the computer up here so they could see?

- [Zhipeng Lu] Fannie, can you hear me?

Can you introduce yourself?

Yes.

(indistinct) Yeah there's a lot of echo, I don't know how to handle that.

- [Student] You'll have to walk out of the room because you're talking into that microphone so it's creating that.

- [Chief Architect India] It's good to see all of you, because I'm very excited and I saw that (indistinct) initiative.

And of course George, he's always a leader (audio fades) (indistinct) So.

Hi George, how are you?

- It's good to have you.

Can you imagine managing all the hospitals in India?

That's what he did.

And are you talking to us from India?

- [Chief Architect India] Thank you, thanks a lot.

- Are you in India now or are you in England?

It's all right.

Anybody have any questions?

All right, we've been free reigning.

Have we heard from everybody Zhipeng?

- And Professor Fannie.

- Fannie.

It's late, maybe she went to bed.

Here's my theory about students.

5% of the students know what's going on all the time, 5% of the students don't know what's going on any of the time, 90% of the students are switch hitters according to how it suits them.

I'm telling you we have an example, I knew Autumn when she was a student.

She knew more about what was going on than I knew what was going on all the time, and saved me in a lecture where I was introducing somebody and I misplaced their resume, and she popped it up on her screen in split seconds.

You want to be among those 5%.

So early on, Ray's gonna get an indication as to who comes in with signature lines, business cards and notes, and you could be typing your notes right here in class, if you're in an organized way.

One page, I don't think anybody wants more than one page.

Just to send a message.

We may circulate those around.

Make sure you look for the notes that Maya Kyle did.

I don't know if they indeed got to you.

- [Zhipeng Lu] I post it today on Canvas.

- It's on Canvas, okay.

And by the way, just so you could see my ignorance, I don't know how to do Canvas yet, and I may never know.

So I wish you good luck.

You're in good hands with Dr. Ray Pentecost and Dr. Zhipeng Lu, and you can forge new ideas.

We had a professor here interested in housing for the elderly, Susan Roddick, and she had an idea to start a student group.

So don't wait for things to come, become an initiator.

Imagine that you're head of this university, or head of engineering, or head of architecture.

Do things that you enjoy, and you'll never work a day in your life.

And frankly, the only reason I'm stepping down is I've had pneumonia five times, not with the COVID.

Not yet.

I was hoping they would do online because I'm a registered coward, Autumn would never recruit me.

She would recruit me into the enemy's orders actually.

(laughing) Anyhow, have fun, life is short, and let's know that you're alive and read some things, and send messages that you are here physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Have a good week and, oh, if I were a student, you got some big fish coming, write them a letter ahead of time with the picture at the bottom.

So when they come in, they're gonna be looking where's that one or two students that had the initiative to write it ahead of time.

Copy your professors.

If you don't copy the professors for all, you know, you may want to write Brad Perkins and Perkins might be Ray Pentecost's first cousin.

And all of a sudden, the first Ray hears that you wrote was maybe Brad Perkins asks him about the student.

So the university is for you.

I know professors and administrators like to not let you in on that secret.

It's for you, it's about you.

Good luck.