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.
Peter Thompson passes along this advice from Alex Garcez, who teaches speed-reading, on learning a new skill: “He says, ‘Make a promise to yourself that you’ll practise for at least one minute per day.’ This is brilliant! You and I know we’ve made promises to practice or do something every day for x amount of…
Despite escalating provocation, I really didn’t want to move the house numbers higher on the house to accommodate a bush that was growing higher than it needed to be. Really! However … when ignoring the provocation was no longer a viable option, and when the wheels had to start turning, some indication of commitment was…
After six hours of manual labor yesterday – spent thinning out a flowering crabapple tree in preparation for eventual removal, I was inclined to go purposely off-line today. For the record, the flowering crab has been severely destabilized and won’t survive another six-hour barrage. However, five pounds of crabapples from the “wild” crabapple tree in the back…
In the “Bite Sizing” blog (http://lifemasterymusings.blogspot.com/2014/09/bite-sizing.html), it was noted that putting air in bike tires (i.e., increasing the pressure) makes the biking experience so much easier/better. To the uninitiated, that may seem like “cheating”. And so it may be! It’s going out of your way to make life easier and more manageable. So is going…
“Galvanization is the process of applying a protective zinc coating to steel or iron, to prevent rusting. The most common method is hot-dip galvanization, in which parts are submerged in a bath of molten zinc. Galvanizing protects in two ways: it forms a coating of corrosion-resistant zinc which prevents corrosive substances from reaching the more…