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The Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) announced April 30 the top ten poster winners of the SBS 2010 Conference and Exhibition. Posters were on display in the exhibit hall at the conference, which took place at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, April 11 15.
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A generous grant from the National Science Foundation will provide participation support through a limited number of travel scholarships for students to attend the 14th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference in downtown Washington, DC, June 21-23, 2010.
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The Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) announced April 27 that University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) graduate student, Sam Hasson was awarded the JBS Academic Excellence Award for his presentation Developing New Chemical Tools to Study Mitachondrial Protein Translocation.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making it easier to find chemical information online. EPA is releasing a database, called ToxRefDB, which allows scientists and the interested public to search and download thousands of toxicity testing results on hundreds of chemicals.
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Multitasking has become part of the productive professional's persona. Walking through business corridors, through airports and while driving, the professional is constantly communicating with the mindset of communicating or learning critical informa
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When you schedule a meeting, its probably not going to be met with the same anticipation as an office party. That's why it's bad news for you if your meetings are perceived to be drawn out and unnecessary.
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Today's advent of distributed, massive-scale "cloud computing" is something of a return to the early 1980s, when computing was of a different sort. Rather than individual desktop or laptop machines, which are the current norm, workplace computers wer
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The American Chemical Society (ACS) today released a package of seven podcasts in observation of Earth Day 2010 (April 22), the 40th anniversary of this landmark event.
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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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