Hard to believe it’s already a year, but Union South opened in April 2011 after two years of construction.  

Everyone's invited to celebrate Union South’s first birthday on Monday, April 16 from noon to 3 p.m., featuring food, music, giveaways and announcing the commemorative items chosen for the Time Capsule.

Events/Attractions for Union South’s 1st Birthday Celebration:

Four of the most significant awards in chemistry were awarded to University of Wisconsin-Madison professors in a ceremony at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego.

The awards were made after a thorough selection procedure, says Bassam Shakhashiri, professor of chemistry at UW-Madison and president of the ACS.

"These awards are highly prestigious, the result of a very elaborate process," said Shakhashiri, a noted scientific educator, in a news release. "Canvassing committees suggest names, which then go to selection committees; it's all done by anonymous peer review. I had nothing to do with it except to sign the awards."

These awards were made at the March meeting of the 164,000-member society:

University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader has appointed of James P. Hurley as the new director of the Aquatic Sciences Center, effective May 1.       

The Aquatic Sciences Center, housed in the Graduate School, is the administrative home of two federal-state programs-the Sea Grant Institute and Water Resources Institute.

The institutes support research, education and outreach to protect and sustainably use Wisconsin's 1.2 quadrillion gallons of groundwater and 6.4 million acres of Lakes Michigan and Superior.

Hurley is returning to the center after a just more than a year as the director of the Environmental Health Division of the State Lab of Hygiene. Hurley was at ASC from 1998 to 2010, filling the role of assistant director for research and outreach at the time of his departure.