Lab Leadership
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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Employee satisfaction surveys and facilitated focus groups help the employer identify areas of employee satisfaction and dissatisfaction. For accurate, reliable results, employee satisfaction surveys or focus group questions need to be...
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olicymakers, universities, and employers should work together to speed the development of professionally oriented master's degree programs in the natural sciences. Graduates of these programs -- which build both scientific knowledge and practical wor
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In order to continue to expand the horizon of scientific knowledge and retain the status of world leader in technology development, America will have to affirm its commitment to science and math education. As a first step in the effort, May 12, 2010 has been declared the first ever National Lab Day, part of President Obama's "Educate to Innovate" campaign.
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There are two sides to micromanagement. The first is the harm you do by being a micromanager. The second is the harm working for a micromanager can do to your own career. We'll talk about the first side below and the second side next week. What is
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