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][3] In 1946, Pound was named professor of plant pathology and was dean of the UW College of Agriculture from 1964 until 1979.
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.