A retirement reception for Paul Read, professor of agronomy and horticulture, is 2 to 5 p.m. May 15 at the Goodding Learning Center, 280 Plant Sciences Hall.
Read will present a seminar, “A Horticulturist’s Professional Journey of Over 60 Years," at 2 p.m. A reception will follow the seminar.
Read retires May 31 after 38 years of teaching, research and extension work at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
He joined the Department of Horticulture to serve as its leader in 1987. In 1997, he resumed the role of professor of horticulture with a focus on viticulture. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cornell University and then worked for more than three years as an extension agent in the New York Extension system. Read received his doctoral degree from the University of Delaware in 1967. He then went to the University of Minnesota and progressed from assistant to full professor prior to coming to Nebraska.
A guest book is available online.
