Lab Culture
For most of the past two years, the leaders of the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) and the Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) have been strategizing a merger to unite their scientific societies as one inclusive organizationthe Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS). As of Wednesday, May 5, both memberships officially authorized the merger with more than 95% of the votes cast in favor.
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Some people are more naturally open to change, while others are more entrenched in their routines and resistant to new things. Either way, the secret to bringing about meaningful change is allowing your employees to be actively involved in creating their transformation.
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Do you look forward to Monday morning? Are you raring to go back to work? Or are you a TGIF (Thank God it's Friday) kind of person who can't wait to get away from the job for a couple of days? You spend at least 8 hours a day at the job. That is almost 25% of your week. If you are a TGIF person you are missing something really important in your work life—passion.
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Even if your laboratory is not allowed to hire many new employees, the long-tem unemployed – chemists, other scientists, engineers and lab technicians unemployed for six months or more – can offer a valuable resource of you can persuade your budget p
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Eppendorf North America has committed to donate over $1,000,000 worth of liquid handling equipment (pipettes and tips) and other Eppendorf products to help educate and inspire young scientists.
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Analtech, Inc., the only U.S. manufacturer of thin layer chromatography plates and equipment, marks one year of operating on a four-day work schedule this week.
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The Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) announced April 30 the top ten poster winners of the SBS 2010 Conference and Exhibition. Posters were on display in the exhibit hall at the conference, which took place at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, April 11 15.
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A generous grant from the National Science Foundation will provide participation support through a limited number of travel scholarships for students to attend the 14th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference in downtown Washington, DC, June 21-23, 2010.
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The Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) announced April 27 that University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) graduate student, Sam Hasson was awarded the JBS Academic Excellence Award for his presentation Developing New Chemical Tools to Study Mitachondrial Protein Translocation.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making it easier to find chemical information online. EPA is releasing a database, called ToxRefDB, which allows scientists and the interested public to search and download thousands of toxicity testing results on hundreds of chemicals.
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The American Chemical Society (ACS) today released a package of seven podcasts in observation of Earth Day 2010 (April 22), the 40th anniversary of this landmark event.
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The University of Nebraska on Tuesday announced a $50 million founding gift commitment from the Robert B. Daugherty Charitable Foundation to support a global Water for Food Institute.
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