Lab Culture
Many laboratory professionals reaching traditional retirement age are finding creative ways of staying in the workforce. What they are doing is often more than just working full-time past age sixty-five. This is occurring even as many mid-career and
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The Laboratory Products Association (LPA) will hold its 2010 Annual Meeting November 7-9 at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, CA. Attendees will be able to take advantage of extensive networking opportunities, education for both personal enrichmen
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Results from our fourth annual Salary & Job Satisfaction survey
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Noted actor and long-time host of PBS Scientific American Frontiers, Alan Alda, will go head-to-head with world-renowned physicist Brian Greene in a conversation entitled, "Why Communicating Science Matters," to commemorate the establishment of the C
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According to a quarterly Associated Press survey of 42 leading economists, economic growth will slow from 3.5% to 3.0% in the next 18 months (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38457713/ns/business-economy_at_a_crossroads). The primary reasons are slow hiri
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The September issue is en route to all our subscribers and the feature this month is Social Science. Is climate change real or the hysterical imaginings of environmentalists? Is seafood from the Gulf of Mexico safe to eat? Are organophosphate pestic
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Staffing companies are able to recruit scientists with detailed skill sets and established career goals within the scientific community for a specific position.
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The best single way for lab managers to promote outstanding effective technical service is to take care of the lab people who take care of customers. When the people who work for you feel valued, they will make your firms customers feel valued.
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In America, the autumn season means two things -- back to school and back to football. To celebrate both events, NBC News' educational arm, NBC Learn, is teaming up with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Football League (NFL) to
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Microscopy and Imaging are often hidden within the meetings of other, more general sciences. In addition, over the past several years there has been a resounding collision between microscopy and spectroscopy.
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The Alan T. Waterman Award is the highest honor awarded by the National Science Foundation. Since 1975, when Congress established the award to honor the agencys first director, the annual award has been bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated
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Before you were a manager, what bothered you in the workplace more than anything? For me, it was the habitual complainers or those took no pride in their work. Even your most devoted and motivated employees can get ticked off, and many times manageme
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