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.
“ … do not pray for easy lives but rather pray to become strong men and women. Do not pray for a task equal to your power, but rather pray for power equal to your task. … you will constantly be amazed at what you can do and become …” Phillips Brooks According to Webster:…
“If I miss one day’s practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.” Ignacy Paderewski, Pianist [NOTE: An absence of practice for two days is merely a weekend!] Top athletes understand that an absence of “conditioning” for anything longer than two…
[Ref: David Brooks, New York Times, April 14, 2014:: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/opinion/a-long-obedience.html?ref=davidbrooks&_r=0] In this piece, David Brooks takes a new look at Moses and the story of Exodus, a story of heroic liberation and “unbinding” from oppression. In fact, the struggle for unbinding liberation from oppression permeates the history of the entire world. Some uprisings are successful…
“Ya know what makes me sick? Ya know what makes me so mad I just wanna chew up a box of ten-penny nails and spit ‘em in the gas tank of an 18 wheeler? … ” Earl Pitts, Uhmerikan What’s it gonna take to get you FIRED UP? Gross Injustice? Embarrassment to a point of…
“None of you is special. You are not special. You are not exceptional.” David McCullough, teacher, addressing Wellesley High School graduates June 2012 This admonition comes as a sobering comeuppance for all of us raised in a virtual Prairie Home Companion universe “ … where all the women are strong, all the men are good…