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.
For some time, I’ve wanted to get a more concrete handle on just what “ATTITUDE” is and how it works. For example: What, exactly, does it mean when we hear someone say: “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the…
… again! It’s the perpetual siren call of politicians … or would-be politicians … especially during election years! But I caught myself wondering: Back to WHEN, exactly? … to when all the roads were dirt roads? … to when there was no FDA and one had to rely on snake oil salesmen for pharmaceuticals…
This week’s question is: How are you doing … and compared to who(m) or what? Everything is relative, right? No less than Einstein, his own self, said so! However, what’s dangerous about benchmarking is that we can always identify someone less “special”, less “good”, less worthy, less “balanced”, less intelligent – however nuanced…
I reflexively wince when seeing or hearing reference to the Kentucky motto: “Unbridled Spirit”. Of course, there’s the superficial first inclination – at least in Kentucky – to conjure images of “unbridled” horses galloping idyllically through open meadows, running with the wind. How liberating! One also might picture the unbridled, unsaddled horses of…
“Anything not underway tends never to get there unless or until imposed upon by a force of sufficient magnitude to get it moving.” Law of Inertia “The human being is one of the most inertially refractory bodies in the universe; When imposed upon by a force of sufficient magnitude to get it moving, the human…