Adele Gilbert delved deeply into art, education and counseling
By Andrew Meacham, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Times Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — When browsing art auctions for a suitable addition to their collection, Adele Gilbert and her husband, Dr. Gordon Gilbert, looked for certain telling traits. Did the painting exude quality? Did it contain a richness of detail? Did it speak to the larger issues of life and death? Out of the dozen or …
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The Wistar Institute Promotes Jessie Villanueva to Assistant Professor
The Wistar Institute has appointed Jessie Villanueva, Ph.D., as assistant professor in the Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program of the Institute’s Cancer Center. Villanueva had been a member of the laboratory of Wistar researcher Meenhard Herlyn, D.V.M., D.Sc. since 2006, starting as a postdoctoral fellow then taking on a position as staff scientist.
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