Lab Leadership
Are you oppressed by the amount of information coming in: the steady stream of emails, instant messaging, the BlackBerry going off, the constant social media updates? You’re definitely not alone.
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There are six methods that you can use to control your career as a lab manager. What are the 6 C’s of control? Control the clock Some of us spend our entire careers struggling with time management. Tim
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Daniel Zimmerli, associate scientist and lead of the Separation Science Point group, discusses how his team uses high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and ultra-high performance (or pressure) LC (UHPLC) technologies for analytical and preparative work.
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Refika Bilgic, Managing Director of IKA® Works Wilmington, presented a symbolic check for $30,000 to Ms. Vicki LaBelle, Executive...
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In 2002, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) embarked on an educational project to leave no young manager behind.
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Many lab managers still remember them from their student days—a handful of hastily stapled printouts sternly titled “Laboratory etiquette—Acceptable standards of conduct.” Those were rules to live by, and the smallest violation landed a budding laboratory scientist in front of the ticked-off chief instructor.
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Unlike the recent British nuptials, where strict social etiquette dictated every nod, handshake and curtsey at the ceremony, rules of behavior in today’s laboratories are slightly more relaxed.
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Discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression is a significant workplace concern in part because it is related to the productivity of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) employees. As a result, lab manag
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Two scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory — Senior Chemist Radoslav Adzic and...
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The Advanced Registration rate ends this Friday, April 29 for the 15th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference...
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Laboratory layoffs continue although at a substantially slower pace. Currently lab layoffs are due largely to industry restructuring. Nobody likes layoffs. That includes lower and middle level lab managers. Conducting layoffs can be very stressful fo
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The Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition is still accepting abstracts for the 2011 Technical Program...
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