My daughter, Rosemary is full of surprises. As a vivacious and inquisitive, just recently, two year old, she soaks up knowledge about our world like a little sponge with a big attitude. Recently, as I was driving her home from her daycare, I heard her mumbling something in the car seat. At the stoplight, the road noise subsided and I got a chance to hear what she was talking about. And in fact, she wasn't talking at all. She was singing. We had never heard her do this before, so it was a big story at dinner that evening. And it took a keen ear and a bit of social science to understand what song she had selected. As it turns out, many of the kids in her class are just a little bit younger than she is, which means that over the past few weeks, she had picked up a classic piece of the musical canon. That's right, my daughter had been singing "Happy Birthday" all day long, seemingly to no one in particular. And you know, it turns out her song is actually really appropriate, because here at Retrieving the Social Sciences, we have a really big birthday to celebrate. And that's because the UMBC Center for Social Sciences is turning five, and much like a vivacious and inquisitive five year old human. the Center has been learning so much about its place on campus and in the broader community over that time. It's accomplished a great deal over those first five years and for the programming and events that are on the horizon, it seems like the best is yet to come. So happy birthday CS3.