The following metrics support this claim: 1) 25 Fellows of 16 learned societies (FRSC, IEEE); 2) 21 CRCs, Institutional Equivalents, and Industrial Research Chairs; 3) 44 National and International Awards since 2020; 4) 55 Best Papers. The stakeholders are extremely prolific, having published 2,576 journal and conference papers that have been cited 17,199 times since 2020. Also, 146 patents have been issued to STARaCom Professors and their HQP teams and collaborators (as opposed to filed and waiting on outcome) since 2020.