A retirement reception for Paul Read, professor of agronomy and horticulture, is from 2 to 5 p.m. on May 15, at the Goodding Learning Center, 280 Plant Sciences Hall, East Campus. Read will present a seminar titled “A Horticulturist’s Professional Journey of Over 60 Years" at 2 pm. Reception will follow the seminar.
Read will retire May 31 after 38 years of teaching, research and extension work at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Read joined the Department of Horticulture as head 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 over 3 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.
An online guest book is available at http://go.unl.edu/paul-read.
