Lab Leadership
The American Association for Cancer Research registered more than 18,000 people from all over the world for its 101st Annual Meeting 2010 in Washington, D.C., which was held April 17-21. Registration increased by 19 percent from the 2009 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colo.
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Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in oligonucleotide synthesis, has been named one of the top 10 Best Places to Work in Industry, in a poll of research staff conducted by a leading magazine. Published in the May issue of The Scientist, the poll put IDT 6th in the small company category, exceeding its 2009 placement of 8th.
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Behavior-based interviews have been common for more than a decade. However, if you aren't prepared for them, they can be largely a waste of time for both the manager and the job hunter. The people on both sides of the manager's desk have to prepare f
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Waters Corporation (WAT:NYSE) presented Prof. Sarah Trimpin of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan with the ASMS 2010 Waters Research Award, an award presented annually that recognizes scientific achievement in mass spectrometry. The award presentation took place at the Salt Palace Convention Center during 58th annual meeting of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS).
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A new program announced May 24 at the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory will give high school teachers and their students access to multi-million-dollar instruments at one of the nations premier scientific facilities.
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How can you build a team environment when its individual performance that leads to recognition, advancement, and more money? To start, you have to show your employees that working as a team benefits them personally.
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To broaden my understanding of people, I've spent time studying social styles and responses to conflict. I've also taken a great interest in Myers Briggs Personality Types. However, for the workplace, the DISC model might be one of the best tools for determining styles of behavior and how your employees work best.
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A Hastings Center workshop examining moral issues in synthetic biology completed its third meeting as the J. Craig Venter Group announced that it had created the first viable cell with a synthetic genome and President Barack Obama called on the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to "undertake, as its first order of business, a study of the implications of this scientific milestone."
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Last week we talked about the problems of being a micromanager and how to break the micromanagement habit. But what if you work for a micromanager? Reporting to a micromanager can be hazardous to your career as well as endlessly frustrating. Som
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The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for Pittcon 2011, which will be held March 13 - 18, 2011, at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
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For the second time in as many years, BioTek Instruments, Inc., has been selected as one of three finalists for the annual Deane C. Davis Outstanding Business of the Year Award.
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As thousands of Generation Y college graduates flood the workforce this spring, the nations employers may want to brace themselves for a new crop of entitlement-minded workers.
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