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May
26, 2016
Dear
Colleagues,
Each
year the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) joins with
the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) to sponsor
a lecture presented at the APLU annual meeting. Each year the lecture
honors one of the three most important historical figures of the
Land-grant University system, William Henry Hatch for research, Seaman
A. Knapp for extension, and Justin Smith Morrill for whom the Morrill
Act which created the Land-grant University system is named.
NIFA
and APLU are seeking nominations for the prestigious Hatch Lecture.The lecture commemorates the efforts of
William H. Hatch, Congressman from Missouri who championed the
Agricultural Experiment Station Founding Bill which became law in 1887
and to celebrate the accomplishments of the Experiment Station System
which the Hatch Act created.
We
are seeking an insightful topic and a dynamic speaker, who can provoke
discussion among meeting participants and prepare a formal lecture to
be presented at the APLU Annual Meeting in Austin, TX, November 13-15,
2016. While we seek recommendations from those within the Land-grant
University system, we also would encourage you to share this memorandum
with colleagues outside of the research, education, and extension
system, including stakeholders, foundations, public interest groups, or
international organizations. Nominations are encouraged from all
sources.
Recommendations
should include the name of the nominee, title, address, telephone
number, and email address and topic that could be discussed.
Please submit your potential topic and/or presenter on or before July
29, 2016. Recommendations should be forwarded electronically to
Kimberly Whittet at kwhittet@nifa.usda.gov.
A committee will review submissions and narrow the scope of the
recommendations in order to make a final decision.
Thank
you for your assistance in this endeavor.
/s/
Sonny Ramaswamy
Sonny Ramaswamy
Director
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