cultural activity, at the very heart of a student experience that is second to none." In late summer and fall 2017, groundbreaking ceremonies were held for a new Football Operations Complex, new School of Nursing building, and a new home for the Collat School of Business and Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. At the groundbreaking ceremony for the latter, Watts remarked, "By housing these two entities under the same roof, this facility will be a new home for innovation on our campus, and will play a future role in the growth of UAB and the growth of innovation and technology in Birmingham." In keeping with the institutional priorities established by the ongoing UAB Strategic Plan that Watts initiated in 2012, the university has made significant gains in education and research. In fall 2016, UAB achieved record overall enrollment of 19,535 students, with enrollment growth in every school and the Honors College. Later that fall, it was announced that UAB ranked 20th among public universities nationally in federal research funding with more than $516 in overall research expenditures, representing a $38 million increase in federally funded research from fiscal year 2013 to 2015. Internationally, UAB jumped 36 places to no. 162 overall in U.S. News & World Report's 2017 "Best Global Universities," ranking no. 68 for "citation impact". UAB's research capacity and information technology infrastructure were greatly enhanced in fall 2016 by the installation of the most advanced supercomputer in Alabama. Soon after, UAB became the first university in the state to launch internet speeds of 100 gigabits per second, boosting available bandwidth by 10 times the previous capability and up to 10,000 times many standard home internet speeds. Watts said of these advances, "Our new capabilities will continue to attract and support top faculty, staff and students, make us more competitive to secure research funding, allow us to better care for our patients, and accelerate our world-changing discoveries." These advanced capabilities along with the new facilities enabled UAB to further develop novel undergraduate academic programs. Watts noted in his 2016 State of the University Address (Oct. 25, 2016), "We have built capacity.... We continue to innovate around majors that we can uniquely provide because we have a world-class comprehensive university." New majors launched in 2016 and 2017 included the state's only B.A. in computer and information sciences, Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Immunology, which is the only program of