Lab Leadership
Pittcon 2010 ended yesterday afternoon at the Orlando Convention Center. As expected, the attendance numbers were down slightly from last year. If you weren't there, please tell us why. If you were, please share your impressions.
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Many laboratories are not happy places anymore. The recession and slow recovery have seen to that. A recent survey released by the Workforce Institute at Kronos Inc. and conducted by Harris Interactive suggests that many employees are not feeling ver
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Millennials have a reputation for bringing a sense of entitlement, a lack of loyalty, a questionable work ethic and an indifference to promotion to their jobs. If you have a similar perception, you're probably cautious when hiring Millennials. However, things aren't always what they seem with Millennial employees.
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The Association of University Research Parks (AURP) releases "The Power of Place 2.0: The Power of Innovation10 Steps for Creating Jobs, Improving Technology Commercialization, and Building Communities of Innovation" in Washington, D.C.
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Turning your researchers into consultants for your customers has at least three advantages. First, in ever more fierce global competition, your firm is selling not just a product but a product and technical service. Your customers will be speaking to
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People don't really work for companies; they work for a boss. To the extent that you can be a good boss, you can keep employees, keep them happy, and reduce the costs associated with employee turnover. In the process, you will make your...
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Despite the recessionary climate, the median salary for food scientists polled by Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) increased by 4.4 percent over the past two years.
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Johns Hopkins University offers an innovative graduate degree program that prepares students for success in the field of bioinformatics.
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I've been rereading some of Peter Drucker's books on management. Even though some of these books are over thirty years old, Drucker was quite prescient in discussing trends shaping the business world and the results of these trends. Many of these res
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When the screening of the candidates is done, you will bring the top two or three in for an interview. What questions should you ask them? What answers should you be looking for? How will you know which one to hire? Whether you work for a large company with a Human Resources department and volumes of procedures or are a small business owner with a few employees, the questions you want to ask are the same.
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Micromeritics Grant Selection Committee has selected the recipient of its grant award for the fourth quarter of 2009. An AutoChem II Catalyst Characterization System has been awarded to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University, Houston, TX.
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Agilent Technologies Inc. announced February 8 that its Scanning Microwave Microscopy Mode (SMM Mode) has been named one of 10 2009 Prism Award winners by judges from SPIE and the advisory board of Laurin Publishing's Photonics Spectra magazine.
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