 I gave a nod to the idea of land grant institutions and it was more than 150 years ago that President Lincoln created land grant colleges from universities to foster continued growth and development of our country and my college, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is proud to continue that tradition on the UW-Madison campus. Provost DeLuca spoke about a nexus in the campus so for those of you who aren't familiar, my college is over on this part, just on this side of the street and engineering is over here so this is really a great meeting place between the two. Energy is a perfect target for land grant model in this century. The discoveries that will be needed to secure our energy future will rely on the development of new basic science tools and fields of knowledge. They will require applied research in the field and those innovations will span our current academic disciplines and probably create more that we haven't thought about. Unlike Provost DeLuca, I haven't been here for the whole process of the the conception and design and construction of the building. I've just been here for the past year so I've been kind of late to the party and can't take very much credit or any credit at all for conceiving of the building and bringing it to reality but I'm very pleased to be able to be here to celebrate it. We have a number of our Cal's faculty members who are at work inside the building and that includes people who work on the whole spectrum of bioenergy from the ecosystems that produce the biomass through to the bacteria that break it down and then ferment the sugars into ethanol and construct other products as well and I think that you know a lot of the folks who work on these areas won't be residents in this building so I think that this is important for them. It's important to be able to have a place where we can all convene and have planned and random interactions that will end up creating new partnerships so I really look forward to seeing how this building and the Wisconsin Energy Institute will catalyze and forge new collaborative projects in the future. Congratulations to all of you who put in so much work to bring this to reality.