The Alan T. Waterman Award is the highest honor awarded by the National Science Foundation. Since 1975, when Congress established the award to honor the agencys first director, the annual award has been bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated
Enter the lab each day with calm assurance that you will meet your personal and professional objectives by using the Time For Results system for setting and achieving team objectives and personal goals.
Before you were a manager, what bothered you in the workplace more than anything? For me, it was the habitual complainers or those took no pride in their work. Even your most devoted and motivated employees can get ticked off, and many times manageme
Analysis paralysis is a form of procrastination. Rather than creating a solid plan and then executing it, all the time is spent continually improving the plan so that, effectively, nothing gets done.
The Pittcon Registration Committee is pleased to announce that conferee registration is now open for Pittcon 2011, which will be held March 13-18, 2011, at the Georgia World Conference Center (GWCC), Atlanta, Georgia.
Lab managers don't have time to read or write unnecessarily long reports; nor do they have the time to write them.. Thick reports may look impressive but how many people are actually going to read them? So how can you write a concise report that conv
The American Physiological Society (APS) announced on August 31 the adoption of two new position statements on animals in research. The policies were approved by the Societys governing body in July.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, $2.8 million to build and deploy a new high performance computer system called Trestles.
BIOTECHNICA, Europe's leading Exhibition for Biotechnology and Life Sciences, is broadening its portfolio to include a new conference and special display on molecular diagnostics. Produced by the Cambridge Healthtech Institute, a leading organizer of
Expert Dr. Greg Shipley's latest webcast on Real-Time qPCR is now posted, view the video. Ask the Expert: Utilizing Whole Cell Lysates Directly for Real-Time qPCR Dr. Gregory Shipley is director of the Quantitative Genomics Core Laboratory at The
Join Karla Brandau for a free webinar on Goal Setting. The event is titled: Tips That Will Help You Set and Achieve Goals for Yourself and Your Lab. Be sure to sign up and take part this Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 1:00 – 2:00 ET. View details a
The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce that Dr. Chad A. Mirkin, Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, will deliver the Pittcon 2011 Plenary Lecture.