Mar 11, 2014
Marcel Perret-Gentil, Animal Research- Univ. Veterinarian, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio [March 11, 2014]~ Born in Caracas, Venezuela, I had no idea when I came to Kansas for college that I would become a citizen of the United States of America. My deep sense...
Mar 14, 2011
Sonya and Rick Hove, National Director – Faculty Commons, Durham, North Carolina [March 19, 2011] — Sonya’s Diary, February 15 –Today they will take half of my liver and transplant it into Gay Scott. I have known Gay since we moved to Illinois...
Apr 14, 2010
Sauchi Stephen Lee, Statistics, University of Idaho [April 18, 2010]— I can still recall the day when I asked my chairman, “Do you think of spiritual things at times?” It was more than a decade ago that I met Al Manson. He was applying to become the first formal...
Jan 15, 2010
Sam Matteson, Physics, University of North Texas [Jan 17, 2010]— “Purnima has lost her baby.” The words stabbed my heart. The wife of Arup, a new junior faculty member in our department, two days before delivered their first child prematurely. Now their daughter...
Oct 19, 2009
Mark Pritchard, Director Northwest Center for Sport Business College of Business, Central Washington University [Oct. 26, 2009] — Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite...
Apr 24, 2009
Mark Geil, Kinesiology and Health, Georgia State University [ April 24, 2009 ] — I’ve just finished the last of 14 NIH grant proposal reviews and I am exhausted. I’ve been on both sides of the process – reviewer and reviewee – so I try to spend a lot of time on...
