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.
I’ve come to hold the view that life is about piling up dots … piling up building blocks, including connectable anchoring and reference points … that can, over time, be connected, rearranged as necessary, and fleshed out to create the life, Dreams and Destiny we will ultimately own. The dots may include pixilated data,…
If you’ve made it past birth, early development, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school and high school with no major glitches and relatively unscathed by major medical maladies, you’re probably endowed with a fairly decent set of genes. The real question is: What have you DONE with what you’ve got? Behavioral scientists have long…
You may be astonished, as I have been, to learn that the failure rate beyond high school and beyond college is much greater than it is in matriculation through those institutions. Endless studies point out how much trouble there is with formal education today … with great numbers of high school students not being college-ready…
“It’s all about choice.” Chip Gallent [A reference to the breadth of options now available through the internet.] But that’s pretty much life in a nutshell, isn’t it? Our goal – particularly in America – is to maximize choices … and to maximize negotiability among multiple choices. It’s not necessarily that way everywhere,…
I am astounded by the degree to which humans can be debilitated and still function – or appear to function. At age 62, my father was found to have severe cardiovascular disease with 90% blockage in one coronary artery and 70% blockage in three others. He eventually had a quadruple bypass operation and lived another…