The wrong type of communication can destroy trust. In this webinar, you will learn five simple strategies for building and maintaining free flowing communications within your lab.

The number of women being trained to enter engineering, science and social science academic careers is not the cause of female underrepresentation in those fields, attendees at a University of Virginia seminar on faculty hiring learned last week.

Words are powerful; use with care, media expert notes.

Emily Hernandez didn’t wait until college to start recruiting fellow minorities to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. She started as an eighth-grader during a University of Memphis camp called Girls Experiencing Engineering near her Germantown, Tennessee, hometown.

New research from North Carolina State University finds that young people who have had mentors are more likely to find work early in their careers that gives them more responsibility and autonomy – ultimately putting them on a path to more financially and personally rewarding careers.

As a manager, you have three options when something needs to be done in your lab:
1. You can do it yourself.
2. You can delegate it to a specific person.
3. You can involve a group of people (two or more) to accomplish the task.

If you don’t have good people working around you, chances are you won’t have good results.

The Registration Committee announced Sept. 9 that conferee registration is now open for Pittcon 2015, the world’s largest annual conference and exposition for laboratory science. The event will be held March 8-12, 2015, at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.

As we wind up this year’s Salary & Employee Satisfaction Survey, it seems that little has changed for many
of our 1,199 survey respondents. 

Liberal policies make people happy, personal beliefs make conservatives happier

Register now and lock in your hotel preferences.

Rutgers researchers find the ability to persist may depend on how the news is delivered.