; (2) enabling transformational solutions for health and the environment; (3) enhancing the defense of the United States while reducing the global threat from terrorism; and (4) addressing other emerging national security and energy challenges; Whereas, due to the commitment of the University to diversity and to providing access to higher education to all qualified students in the State of California, the University currently enrolls the highest number of resident undergraduates in the history of the University; Whereas the faculty of the University is internationally renowned for scholarly and scientific achievements, and has helped maintain the prestige and quality of education of the University during decades of social and technological change; Whereas in 1939 University professor E.O. Lawrence received the first Nobel Prize of the University for inventing the cyclotron; Whereas 61 faculty members associated with the University have won Nobel Prizes; Whereas the faculty and alumni of the University include hundreds of MacArthur “Genius” grant winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, Fulbright Award recipients, National Medal of Science winners, prominent policy makers, athletes, and thespians; Whereas the University established the fields of nuclear physics and biotechnology, revolutionized agriculture, and helped the movie industry mature; Whereas the University, through faculty and alumni, continues to drive technological innovation and actively partners with private industry; and Whereas the University continues to address the most pressing issues in the world: Now, therefore, be it