Lab Culture
The Eastern Analytical Symposium & Exhibition is still accepting abstracts for its 2010 Technical Program. Deadline - April 15, 2010
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If youve ever been on a mismanaged team, you can tell that some team members, perhaps yourself included, didnt always feel like putting forth their best effort. Theres always something missing on a mediocre team, a sort of disconnect. The passion you instill your employees, or lack thereof, might be directly related to the way you manage differences. As an employee yourself, have you ever felt that your skills and qualities were not utilized or valued?
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As effective team memebers, scientists can help their organizations and laboratories continue to do the important research necessary to improve lives well into the future.
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In his inaugural address, President Barack Obama promised to restore science to its rightful place in U.S. society. But where is that place? How do we find it in an ever more complex, uncertain, and politically, socially and culturally diverse world?
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The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation has donated $100,000 to The Scripps Research Institute that will be used to jump start a new philanthropic drive to expand the graduate school program at Scripps Florida.
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General economic conditions have many lab employees concerned about their continued employment. This is particularly the case if their laboratory has undergone a staff reduction. Some big pharmaceutical companies even have closed entire large laborat
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The Biotechnology Study Center of NYU School of Medicine will hold its annual awards symposium on April 5, 2010, to honor three outstanding leaders in biomedical research.
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Barbara Royce, an employee of the U.S. Department of Energys Brookhaven National Laboratory since 1980, will be honored for her dedicated community service work at the Town of Brookhavens 24th Annual Womens Recognition Night on March 25 at Town Hall in Farmingville.
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For the past 18 months, the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) and the Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) have been strategizing a merger to unite their complementary missions within the context of one inclusive organizationthe Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS).
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Burlington Laboratories Inc. recently made a $50,000 challenge grant to commemorate Lund Family Center's 120 years of strengthening families by helping children survive.
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The work force is aging as baby boomer move toward retirement. Gen X managers need to learn how to motivate and manage this talent pool of older workers. Both generations have very different views of the other and will need to learn how the other generation operates. It is up to the managers, Gen X or otherwise, to take the lead and create the climate in which older workers will remain engaged and productive.
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These awards honor the best and most innovative new products at Pittcon.
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