Glenn Simpson Pound (March 7, 1914 – July 6, 2010)[1] was an American educator and acting chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1977.
Born in Hector, Arkansas, Pound worked as a sharecropper in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, where he worked his way up to running a 600-acre (240 ha) farm producing vegetables and cotton.[2] He graduated from University of Arkansas in 1940, and then moved to Wisconsin that year, where he received his doctorate degree from University of Wisconsin in 1943.[2][3] In 1946, Pound was named professor of plant pathology and was dean of the UW College of Agriculture from 1964 until 1979.[2][3] In 1977, Pound was acting chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Pound retired in 1979[3] and moved to La Jolla, California. He served as an adjunct professor of plant pathology at University of California, Riverside. He died in La Jolla, California in 2010.[3][4][5]
