Lab Leadership
ACS national meeting programming holds much of interest to industrial and government lab managers and to academic researchers in their role of lab managers running labs and supervising research students. The ACS national meeting will be held August
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Your boss wants a report on some topic. You delegate to one of your subordinates the task of pulling tothether the material for the report. Instead of just giving you the material you asked for, the subordinate gives you a report that is almost compl
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Cooperation comes naturally to science; or at least it should, as the big problems science is called upon to address from climate change to pandemics respect no boundaries. And science at its best is a group effort, inclusive and open.
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Who better to offer tips and insight to someone just starting their management career than the seasoned professional manager? Here are some tips from just such a group of managers.
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Businesses that look only at age to bridge generational gaps among workers risk losing knowledge to retirements, higher turnover and other productivity-clogging problems, new University of Illinois research has found.
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Five researchers at the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will lead projects that have been awarded almost 200 million processor-hours of computing time at Argonnes Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). The ALCF is home to
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Carl Zeiss' "ZEISS On Your Campus" (ZOYC) 2010 traveling tour brings free workshops designed to educate scientists and their students in the fundamentals of various microscopy techniques to universities across the United States and Canada, providing
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This program is designed to nurture those crucial relationships, build morale and get everyone to play nicely in the sandbox. In today's economic situation where everyone is asked to accomplish more with less, teamwork and collaboration are critical.
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On August 3,U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson toured the Agency's Edison Environmental Center in Edison, NJ. Jackson was joined by Congressman Frank Pallone and Edison Mayor Antonia Ricigliano to highlight the Agencys
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If you're in management long enough, you're bound to face a decision that will challenge your principles. There will always be gray areas that need to be navigated, where something might or might not be right. But inside all of us is something that tells us whether an action we're considering is or isn't right.
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Before presentation software such as PowerPoint became almost ubiquitous, many presenters would give rambling, poorly focused presentations. Preparing 35 mm slides was often too costly and took too much time for internal presentations. So speakers wo
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The web is full of new and interactive ways to engage with lab products and marketings minds are getting more and more creative. This week I came across the BioTek video contest that you might like to explore. You can submit a short video describing
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