Sentences with phrase «academic labs often»

I think part of the reason is that discoveries found in academic labs often have industrial applications.

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«The joie de vivre, the sense of enthusiasm among founders and employees, is much higher than you often see in the halls of an academic lab,» he says.

In particular, «small customers» (those from academic and small company labs, as opposed to big multinationals) often love to talk to you about their research, which makes the job very interesting, and you build up the customer's trust based on your knowledge.

Roughly 1200 of these are research labs, which are often housed at major academic centers or run by government agencies themselves, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But unlike other professions where work is often restricted to business hours, «lab sciences can be 24/7,» says Cathy Trower, research director of Harvard University's Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education.

Through decisions made haphazardly 60 years ago, «we chose as a country to staff our labs primarily with graduate students and postdocs and a few non-tenured staff people, while other countries have permanent ways of staffing their labs,» often with PhD staff scientists in career positions, says Georgia State University economist Paula Stephan, an authority on the academic labor force.

Many university labs operate as quasi-independent «fiefdoms,» according to the report; lab chiefs have great authority to observe or ignore safety standards and often see outside safety checks as «infringing upon their academic freedom.»

SBIR awards are made to small businesses, often in collaboration with academic labs.

In my seminars, I often describe an accomplishment using «we» to show the members of my academic audience how little it does to help their cases: «In the Smith lab, we do work in the blah - blah field, and we've published, in several high - impact journals, a series of papers showing that blah - blah and blah - blah are interrelated.»

He said cheating often occurs because researchers are under intense pressure to publish, win awards, and raise more money each year just to keep their labs going, employ research assistants and provide their academic institutions with 40 - 50 % of each grant for «overhead.»