Lab Culture
The $787 billion stimulus package that President Obama signed into law yesterday provides $21.5 billion in science and research spending. What, if anything, does this mean for you?
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The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Foundation has established the Vittorio de Nora Prize for Environmental Improvements in Metallurgical Industries.
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Scientific management was the first big management idea to reach a mass audience. It swept through corporate America in the early years of the 20th century, and much management thinking since has been either a reaction to it, or a development of it.
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Dissatisfaction may be on the rise among your best performers, according to research from the Corporate Executive Board. You can get them to stay–if you pay.
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Lab managers have a responsibility to see that appropriated funds are used wisely and in accordance with their laboratories' business goals.
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The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) has announced the winner of the LabAutomation2009 $10,000 ALA Innovation Award.
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In Barrack Obama's inaugural address, he pledged to "restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost."
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As companies struggle to stay afloat in the current economic climate, they must cut expenses any way they can, including making reductions to employee headcount.
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Research universities may not be able to count on their ability to attract the best young faculty talent, a survey released on January 20th, 2009 suggests.
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Invention is "new technology that really changes things, that is radical disruption," explains Dr. Lienhard. One reason for this disruption is that invention is cumulative, as noted by Merton Flemings, director of the Lemelson-MIT Program, a nonprofi
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"Invention and innovation are quite different things," declares Dr. Lienhard, emeritus professor of technology and culture at the University of Houston. To promote invention, a lab manager has to devise methods of instilling a sense of freedom in the research staff.
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This small biotech company successfully attracts great hires
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