Joseph F. Clark, Ph.D.

I loaded up on coffee and tried very hard to pay attention to the lecture. Lab was a little easier because we were standing around Clare and all had to work together. The lab’s usual small talk ensued while we were cutting up Clare’s chest and abdomen. Sherry was telling the group that she took [...]

Very shortly after leaving Des Moines, one hits the Mississippi River and crosses the river into Nebraska. Omaha is a small but very modern and complete city on the banks of the Missouri River. My destination was Creighton University. Thanks to the maps that came with the registration material, I quickly found both the school [...]

I wanted to take a road trip while in college. It is the college thing to do. So the questions became; where do I go, and with whom? I quickly decided I was going alone, because I wanted to go see Holly. Holly was a former girlfriend who had moved from New York to Omaha, [...]

I intentionally avoid this discussion of how or when I knew that being a scientist was right for me. The reason is because the answer, while truthful and kind of humorous, is not the stuff of learned scientific careers. In fact some might call it somewhat nefarious. I was always interested in science, medicine biology [...]