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Fueling the growing momentum toward openness, transparency, and accessibility to publicly funded information, the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2010 (FRPAA) has been introduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) and a bi-partisan host of co-sponsors.
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Lab Manager Magazine's Academy: Communication from Lab Manager on Vimeo. If communication can be defined as the transition of information, thought or feeling so that it is satisfactorily understood, then dealing with difficult people is essen
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A researcher at North Carolina State University has helped to develop a new method for describing the binding of protons and neutrons within nuclei. This method may improve scientists ability to predict and understand astrophysical reactions within stars.
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Hastings Center Fellows Anita Allen, Christine Grady, and Daniel Sulmasy were appointed to President Barack Obama's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, the White House announced. Amy Gutmann, who was appointed Chair of the Commission last November, is also a Hastings Center Fellow.
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Purdue University has received $14.9 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to expand Discovery Park's Bindley Bioscience Center for growing its cancer and life sciences research.
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Two chemists at The Scripps Research Institute have synthesized a new nano-scale scientific tool -- a tiny molecular switch that turns itself on or off as it detects metallic ions in its immediate surroundings.
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The advent of high throughput techniques have had a profound effect on pharmaceutical companies and the drug discovery process worldwide. The numbers and types of compounds available for elucidation have increased by orders of magnitude.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced in March that it is providing the Scottish Metabolomics Facility (ScotMet) with cutting-edge technology to advance the field of metabolomics. ScotMet is funded by the Scottish Universities Life Science Alliance (SULSA) and is a state-of-the-art facility run jointly by the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde.
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energys Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new class of silver-based catalysts for the production of the industrially useful chemical propylene oxide that is both environmentally friendly and less expensive.
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JEOL USA and the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) jointly announced in March the Universitys acquisition of the new JEOL atomic resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM). The new ARM200F is an aberration-corrected TEM that achieves better than 1 Angstrom resolution in STEM and TEM and chemical analysis at the atomic level.
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A chemical once costing $100 a gram is now available for a tiny fraction of that price and in a more pure form thanks to a new manufacturing process pioneered by Battelle and St. Louis-based Ferratec, LLC.
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Berkeley Lab scientists have made the largest two-dimensional polymer crystal self-assembled in water to date. This entirely new material mirrors the structural complexity of biological systems with the durable architecture needed for membranes or integration into functional devices.
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The Eastern Analytical Symposium & Exhibition is still accepting abstracts for its 2010 Technical Program. Deadline - April 15, 2010
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Malvern Instruments Limited (Malvern, UK) has acquired certain assets of Swedish rheology company Reologica Instruments AB (Lund, Sweden), which went into administration on 23rd March 2010. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
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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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