Our AAUW annual luncheon speaker today was Sallie Keller-McNulty, Ph.D, who is the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering and a professor of statistics at Rice University, in addition to multiple other national and international positions too numerous to mention. It was my privilege to introduce her and, along with Bill, to enjoy having her and her husband sit with us during the luncheon. We all became rather fast friends as Sallie was a professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Statistics at Kansas State (along with multiple other positions there over 13 years) which is also Bill's undergrad alma mater. She was enthusiastically interested in our association and became an immediate member before she left the club today. Her husband is a folk singer and Bill has one of his CDs playing now in his car. But the point of my writing this is to say how wonderfully amazing it was to hear her describe the various projects her medical/healthcare engineers and statisticians at Rice are doing in cooperation with our medical center and the national alliance. To put it in the simple terms she uses: "Our goal is to have a woman walk across the parking lot into her doctor's office, be diagnosed with breast cancer, have the injections and be in remission by the time she walks back to her car." This is done by carbon nanotube nanobombs that literally blow apart a cancer cell from the inside out. Once the nanobombs are exposed to light and the resulting heat, localized explosions kill the targeted cells without damage to surrounding healthy cells. I first heard about this potential new weapon in the fight against cancer back in 2005 but had not heard much since. It's so gratifying to hear that this process is already in clinical trials and should be ready to roll out in a decade. What an amazing world we live it.