A retirement reception for Kenneth Cassman, Robert B. Daugherty professor of agronomy, is from 3 to 5 p.m. April 28 at the 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.

The retirement reception, hosted by the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, is free and open to the public.