Biography willam coleman
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Celebrating the Career and Legacy of William Coleman
Established Research Program in Minority Health
BY GERDA GALLOP-GOODMAN, NIMHD
William G. Coleman Jr., a distinguished researcher at NIH for 40 years, died of cancer on August 18, 2014, at age 72. He became the first permanent African-American scientific director in the history of the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP) when he was appointed to direct the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities’ (NIMHD’s) intramural research program in January 2011.
Over the course of his career, Coleman made seminal contributions to the elucidation of lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis, intrinsic gram-negative bacteria antibiotic resistance, and the pathogenic mechanisms and innate and adaptive immune response of Helicobacter pylori. H. pylori, a type of bacteria that causes infection in the stomach, is associated with gastritis, ulcers, and gastric cancers. These infections affect millions of Americans and are more
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William Coleman 1704 - 1769
Penn People
William Coleman was born and died in Philadelphia, where he was educated and studied law. His parents were Quaker; his mother, Rebecca, had arrived in the new colony of Pennsylvania as a child in 1683 and his father, also William Coleman, was a carpenter. Young William Coleman married Hannah Fitzwater in 1738; the couple was childless, but Coleman adopted his nephew George Clymer.
After he was admitted to the bar, Coleman held a variety of municipal offices, beginning as town clerk and clerk of the City Court. He became a judge of various local courts including the Orphan’s Court, Court of Common Pleas, and Quarter Sessions. In 1758 he was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He was also a merchant, in partnership with Thomas Hopkinson. He was also active in Philadelphia’s emerging cultural institutions. By 1727 Coleman was a friend of Benjamin Franklin and member of Franklin’s Junto. He
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It’s a special pleasure for us to feature one of our own as the Artist of the Month. It was Bill Coleman who first came up with the idea of this feature for the Image website when he was working as Image’s Managing Editor from 1998 to 2000. Like every ME who has worked for Image, he left his distinctive imprint on the journal and its programs—in particular, helping to give the Glen kurs its current vision and format.
But it’s Bill as a ung poet that we’re celebrating this month. It’s only appropriate that we first met Bill at Eighth Day Books in Wichita, Kansas—the bookstore that serves the Glen Workshop and many of our other events around the country. He was working there while finishing his MFA in Creative Writing at Wichita State. We knew Bill as a witty, laid-back guy, literate and funny in a dry, quirky, thoroughly cool way. But the moment he submitted his application for the ME position at Image—an application that included his poet