Fr. Matthew Dougherty, O. Praem., is a Norbertine priest and a post-doctoral teaching fellow in the biology discipline at St. Norbert College. His research focuses on aquatic ecosystems, where he studies strong organism-environment interactions, intraspecific variation, eco-evolutionary feedbacks and environmental DNA as a tool for ecosystem management. Fr. Dougherty believes strongly in teaching the whole person, and he enjoys working with undergraduates on research in both the field and the lab.
BIOL 120 Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology
BIOL 121 Introduction to Organismal Biology
BIOL 225 Ecology
B.S. – St. Norbert College (Organismal Biology)
M.Div. – Catholic Theological Union (Divinity)
M.A. – Catholic Theological Union (Systematic Theology)
M.S. – Yale University (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
Ph.D. – Yale University (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
