Lab Culture
With all the demands on lab managers and their employees, it can be difficult to have a life outside of the laboratory. Science writer and PhD Sophie Domingues has some solid advice on how to best organize your time so that you can still meet your work commitments while also being able to meet your obligations at home and have some downtime.
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Carl Zeiss MicroImaging has donated a state-of-the-art microscope for use in the UMass Labs for Worcester Area High Schools program.
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In many ways, the development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet plane serves as an object lesson about the hazards of globalization of new product codevelopment and manufacturing. Over many years, Boeing had built its own aircraft design facilities, aircraft manufacturing plants and suppliers in Everett, Washington, near Seattle. That changed with the Dreamliner.
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Lab Manager Magazine and Kelly Scientific Resources® are conducting its Fifth Annual Salary and Employee Satisfaction Study specifically focused on scientific professionals who work in a lab environment. We invite you to take this brief survey.
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Throughout the spring economists have voiced disappointment in the U.S. economy. Recovery from the recession appears to have been losing steam. The Dow Jones barometer of the stock market has lost 500 points over the past month. The S&P has also
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Many people come to the conclusion that there’s a virtue in persevering through the afternoon grogginess. After trying out many different solutions, I imagine they feel it’s a situation they have to live with. But with everything that needs to be accomplished in a work day, there isn’t much room for ineffectiveness.
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At the White House today, President Barack Obama met in the Oval Office with the seven U.S. recipients of the 2010 Kavli Prizes to recognize and honor their seminal contributions to the three fields for which the Prizes are awarded -- astrophysics, n
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We probably all have things that we say to ourselves when we are trying to push toward something new or different. Some of mine are: “Enough is enough,” “Wake up,” and “Aw, what the heck, do it anyhow.”
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In a perfect laboratory managers would accept staff members for taking calculated risks even if the outcome isn’t successful. Coworkers wouldn’t steal others ideas and credit would be given where it is due. Sadly, in reality some managers
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Women have lower career expectations than men. They expect lower salaries and longer periods between promotions than their male counterparts according to a new study from business professors Linda Schweitzer, Ed Ng and Sean Lyons of Carleton Universi
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I once had a manager who equated managing his research group to being the father of a large, unruly family. Such was his personal tact that he often brought this up in group meetings. However, the analogy has some truth to it. As children mature and
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