February Exhibit – Christine Wilson
After a career as a Research Biologist and University Instructor, Professor Wilson retired to a quiet home in New Hampshire and began painting.
Born and raised in Southern Ontario, Canada, Christine attended the University of Waterloo where she earned an honors master’s degree in biology while researching the effects of suberin deposition in plant roots and its role in preventing desiccation.
She married George Wilson and moved to Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. Once their three boys, James, Ben and Nathan were in school, she resumed her career, teaching Anatomy and Physiology, General Biology, Pathology and Microbiology for the
University of Pennsylvania and Thiel College and then teaching full-time for the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh.
In 1999, the family moved to Germany. While there, she began teaching biology for the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) on various American Military Bases in Germany and online. She attended the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and earned a Magna cum Laude PhD in Naturwissenchaft (Natural Sciences). Her research centered around the effects of acid rain, soil mycorrhiza and liming on the long-term survival of high-elevation oak forests.
In 2003, the family moved to Singapore. Dr. Wilson continued to teach overseas for UMUC on various American Military Bases in Japan and in Singapore until 2009. She also taught environmental chemistry for Raffles University in Singapore. After moving back to the States, she taught at the Manchester Campus of the University of New Hampshire.
In 2019, she retired from two decades of online instruction for the University of Maryland. Over the years, she has written and illustrated various scientific
publications and lab books.
Finally, upon retirement, her illustrations shifted from decades of lab equipment, plant roots and human anatomy images in sober black ink to a study of wild flowers and birds in vibrant watercolors.
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