Talk:The W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center

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Hi,

I worked at the W. ALton Jones Cell Science Center in the late 70'-80's and had a mentor who later was accused of killing a prostitute in Boston. Can anyone remenber his name and update me on what has happened? ALso, what happened to the Center?

Deb rudy 00:48, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

The person you are referring to was Dr. William Douglas, a native of the area. He moved to Tufts University as a professor in about 1978 or 1979. The bizarre story was the subject of a book, Missing Beauty: A story of murder and obsession (http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Beauty-Story-Murder-Obsession/dp/0393025691). The story and followup of Dr. Douglas after serving his prison terms and his family would be worthy of research and its own wiki article with links to the Center article and Tufts and other articles. Here is a 1988 NYT Book Review, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE0DC163FF935A15755C0A96E948260

The history, evolution and current status of the Cell Center property itself is is summarized in the main article. The details from the Boards of the W. Alton Jones Foundation, Upstate Biotechnology and staff of the Center itself is also a story of conflict of human valor, novel dreams and vision for how science is done, human weaknesses and frailties of greed, power, sex and corruption.

Don Guillermo 18:45, 22 September 2007 (UTC)