During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.