E.T. York, former
chancellor of Florida’s State University System and the creator of the
University of Florida’s Institute of Flood and Agricultural Sciences, and
his wife Vam have endowed a lecture series for the American Society of
Agronomy. “I think this will provide an opportunity for agronomy professionals to hear a message from globally prominent people in agriculture,” York said. “These lectures will highlight new directions in agricultural sciences and provide an interesting, challenging message to faculty and graduate students.”
The lectures are presented an annual plenary meetings held jointly by the ASA, the Crop Science Society of America and the Soil Society of America. The societies are separate, but share administration and many members. Members from all three of these societies will be able to attend the lectures.
“This was an effort on the part of Vam and me to do something for our professional society,” he said. “I haven’t had time to donate a lot of attention to agronomy, but in recent years I’m still as active there as I can be.”
As UF’s provost for agriculture, York brought together the College of Agriculture, the Cooperative Extension Service and the State Agricultural Experiment Stations under a single administrative umbrella to create the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences in 1964. York was president of UF from 1973 to 1974 and chancellor of Florida’s university system from 1975 to 1980. Since 1980 he has dedicated himself to activities related to the problems of world hunger and malnutrition.
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