A retirement reception for Kenneth Cassman, Robert B. Daugherty Professor of Agronomy, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, is 3 to 5 p.m. April 28 at the Nebraska East Union Arbor Suite.
Cassman retired Feb. 29 after 20 years at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He began his career at UNL in 1996 as head of the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture. He was a past Heuermann Professor of Agronomy, Director of the Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research and Chair of the Independent Science and Partnership Council/Consultative Group for International Agriculture Research. Cassman has worked with the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, was a faculty member at the University of California, Davis, and a research agronomist in Brazil and Egypt. The focus of his work has been soil fertility and nutrient management, food security and yield gap analysis at local to global spatial scales.
In collaboration with Wageningen University, Cassman has co-led the Global Yield Gap and Water Productivity Atlas, an interactive, map-based web platform developed to estimate exploitable gaps in yield and water productivity for major food crops worldwide. The project helps farmers, governments, policymakers, foundations, private sector organizations and others identify regions with the greatest potential to sustainably produce more food.
He holds a doctorate and master’s degree in agronomy and soil science from the University of Hawaii. He received the 2012 President’s Award from the Crop Science Society of America and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The retirement reception is free and open to the public and is hosted by the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture.
