Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education co-sponsored the Dalai Lama's visit to Silicon Valley for a talk on business, ethics and compassion. It highlighted recent achievements at Stanford's center, which continues to make research progress in the "science of compassion" while calling attention to the importance of well-being in our society.

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 makes it illegal for woman to be fired just because they are pregnant.

Scientists at Cambridge have developed a novel approach to enabling collaborations between researchers at conferences and academic meetings – by treating them like genes

You may know your business or your industry well. But do you know anything about yourself? Forward thinking executives and business leaders evaluate their employees and clients to help better understand work styles and personality types. Sales trainers try to understand the types of buyers their sales people are talking to and how those buyers will make purchasing decisions. Marketers try to understand the personality types that one can reach out to and how those personalities will receive a message. Understanding the types of people one works with is important knowledge especially for executives.

Part one of this article ended with a discussion of politics in your department. We hope you have considered the questions and the implications of the answers.

To address what they call persistent gender, racial, and ethnic bias in academia, scholars at Skidmore College and Yale and Leiden universities have recommended specific, rigorous interventions that lead to positive outcomes.

Pittcon Solicits 2015 Call for Nominations for Awards in Areas of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy.

Fine-grained research shows boost for leading-edge and low-profile work in the life sciences happens after authors are honored.

Researchers have found that exercise plays a role in how individuals feel they can manage their work-life balance.

Four Berkeley Lab researchers receive recognition for their work.

January 7, 2014 — (BRONX, NY) — More women are choosing science careers, yet women are notoriously underrepresented in senior academic positions — often because they abandon their careers due to pessimism about advancement. New research suggests that putting more women in decision-making roles on the teams that organize symposia could offer a simple, effective step forward.

19 December 2013: Boston, MA: 908 Devices, an innovator in point-of-need chemical analysis, is delighted to announce that M908, the world’s first and only handheld high pressure mass spectrometer, has been voted first place winner in The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards 2013. The awards select a single winner and recognize a short-list of the top 15 advances from across the broad field of analytical sciences.