Originated in Bruin, PA, north of Pittsburgh. Lew received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Pittsburgh. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, MA then as Associate Director for Science with the National Bladder Cancer Project before moving to Kentucky to help establish the Markey Cancer Center in 1983.
He served as Associate Director for Administration until retiring in June, 2011. He has expertise in scientific research, writing/editing, grants, and comprehensive organization administration.
Ever since Adam and Eve – and perhaps even eons before Adam and Eve – life has been a struggle for most folks much of the time … getting enough food to eat, protecting against life-threatening incursions, dealing with in-laws and outlaws, competing against folks who have nothing better to do than outsmart, undermine and…
“I can’t function without my second cup of coffee; but, once I’ve had that second cup, look out world – I can do ANYTHING!” Herbie Halfmaster What gets you going and keeps you going through THICK and through THIN? What pushes you “over the top” to be able to tackle anything that comes your way…
Over the course of days, weeks, months and years, snipets of inspiration have slipped through the fog that seemed to warrant representation at least as footnotes. Here are a few footnote snipets from 2010 … which seemed to be a particularly “footnotable” year (the year before I retired): CATCHING A DREAM Problems in maximizing…
Some things in life are guaranteed to work and some are guaranteed NOT to work. However, due to inexperience, ineptitude, “natural tendencies” and a whole host of other factors, we tend to gravitate toward things that don’t work. Things that don’t work generally offer some level of immediate gratification and/or perceived delayed ramification with minimal…
“Making it” in America – or almost anywhere in the universe – is both deceptively easy and deceptively hard. As I’ve sought to break the code on why some people “make it” but many don’t, several recurring themes have surfaced as fundamental to successful passage. A beginning list follows … in no particular order of…