Lab Leadership
The University of Nebraska on Tuesday announced a $50 million founding gift commitment from the Robert B. Daugherty Charitable Foundation to support a global Water for Food Institute.
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Fueling the growing momentum toward openness, transparency, and accessibility to publicly funded information, the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2010 (FRPAA) has been introduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) and a bi-partisan host of co-sponsors.
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Lab Manager Magazine's Academy: Communication from Lab Manager on Vimeo. If communication can be defined as the transition of information, thought or feeling so that it is satisfactorily understood, then dealing with difficult people is essen
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Hastings Center Fellows Anita Allen, Christine Grady, and Daniel Sulmasy were appointed to President Barack Obama's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, the White House announced. Amy Gutmann, who was appointed Chair of the Commission last November, is also a Hastings Center Fellow.
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Lab managers can play an important role in the process of filing patent applications on staff members' inventions. The stakes are often high when patenting a new product or process. So it's important to get everything right. Nowhere is this truer tha
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The Eastern Analytical Symposium & Exhibition is still accepting abstracts for its 2010 Technical Program. Deadline - April 15, 2010
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If youve ever been on a mismanaged team, you can tell that some team members, perhaps yourself included, didnt always feel like putting forth their best effort. Theres always something missing on a mediocre team, a sort of disconnect. The passion you instill your employees, or lack thereof, might be directly related to the way you manage differences. As an employee yourself, have you ever felt that your skills and qualities were not utilized or valued?
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Do you have employees that are hungry to expand their knowledge and skill-set, but find your budget for training to be tight? If your employees are as eager as they claim, you could consider installing a Learn at Lunch program.
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In last week's blog, I discussed five ways to increase their report writing speed. There is also a sixth approach lab managers can use to get reports written and issued quickly: hire a technical writer to write the report. However, this approach has
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As effective team memebers, scientists can help their organizations and laboratories continue to do the important research necessary to improve lives well into the future.
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For many, Project Management means graphs, charts, and procedures, often implemented through a software package, designed to plan and guide to completion repetitive and highly predictable work. If that's what it means, does it have a place in today
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With all your employees being unique, some of them may need extra reassurance in order to function, while others may be uncomfortable with praise or even indifferent.
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