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A life where art and science met.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-FEB-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A life where art and science met.(Arts & Literature)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard

SALEM - Sharon Rose never expected to curate an art exhibit. A biology professor at Willamette University in Salem, she and a colleague, Carol Long, were researching early women naturalists when they came across the name Helen Gilkey.

Gilkey, daughter of a Willamette Valley farm family, studied at Oregon Agricultural College - now Oregon State University - and got her master's degree there in 1911. Then she was the first woman to receive a doctorate in botany from the University of California at Berkeley. She was a distant relation of the late Gordon Gilkey, an artist...

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