President Barry Dunn was selected to deliver the 2019 William H. Hatch Memorial Lecture at the annual meeting of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.
The lecture is one of three rotating lectures presented by NIFA and APLU, which honor three historic land-grant university figures: Justin Smith Morrill, William Henry Hatch and Seamen A. Knapp. Nominations for this prestigious award are submitted by the LGU system, stakeholders, foundations, public interest groups and international organizations.
Dunn’s lecture focuses on his Wokini Initiative. He launched this program to increase programming and support to enrolled members of the state’s nine tribal nations, while enhancing research and outreach collaborations and programs with tribes, tribal colleges and other tribal organizations in the state. The lecture provides a forum to challenge thinking about university research programs, especially in agriculture, and proposes opportunities and challenges for the future.
