Returning To Lincoln

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32393, 4 September 1970, Page 7

Returning To Lincoln

Dr C. T. Dougherty is to rejoin the staff of Lincoln College as a senior lecturer in the plant science department. Dr Dougherty resigned from the college last year, where he was a lecturer in the same department, to become assistant executive secretary to the American Society of Agronomy at Madison in Wisconsin. He took up this position on October 15. The holder of bachelor of agricultural science and master of agricultural science degrees from Lincoln, Dr

Dougherty was awarded a Fulbright travel grant in 1962 under which he went to Purdue University in the United States where in 1966 he gained the degree of doctor of philosophy. He returned to Lincoln that year Also joining the plant science department at Lincoln shortly will be Dr R. J. Field, aged 24 years, who has just completed research for his doctorate at the University of Hull in Yorkshire This research was concerned • principally with the movement of plant growth regulators in willow and involved the use of radioactive tracers. At Lincoln Dr Field will be a lecturer in crop physiology.