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March 20, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NORTHAMPTON, Mass.-The 44th Annual Katherine Asher Engel Lecture will be presented by Philip Reid, Louise C. Harrington Professor of Botany, Smith College, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March 26, in Stoddard Auditorium. His talk, "A Botanical Triptych," is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.


Each year a Smith College faculty member who has made significant contributions to his/her academic field is chosen from a list of nominees to be the Katherine Asher Engel Lecturer. Past honorees have included Newton Arvin, Thomas Mendenhall, Elliot Offner and Helen Krich Chinoy.


Reid's longstanding research interest is on how growth-regulating substances influence the development processes of plants. Some of the growth regulants he studies are used in agriculture to increase crop productivity. He collaborates with scientists at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the University of California-Riverside, the University of Arizona and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.


Reid, who has been on the Smith faculty since 1971, graduated with a B.S. in botany from Eastern Michigan University in 1962, received an M.A. in botany from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1964 and earned his Ph.D. in botany from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1970.


The Engel Lecture is an endowed fund, established in 1958 by the National Council of Jewish Women in memory of its onetime president, Katherine Asher Engel, a 1920 graduate of Smith College.

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