State OSHA investigations of a fatal fire at UCLA point to changes needed to
make academic labs safer
Building a Culture of Safety 5 June 2009 State OSHA investigations of a fatal fire at UCLA point to changes needed to
make academic labs safer.
Not exact matches
Learning Machine is working with MIT Media
Lab to build Blockcerts which
makes it easy to store retrieve, and verify
academic credentials on Blockchain.
Amaro's work illustrates how a handful of
academic labs and small companies are
making progress with a fresh approach to targeting p53: rescuing it when it's sick.
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.
If a manager (say, the PI of an
academic biomedical research
lab) assumes that they're more qualified to judge their employees» performance than they really are, what management errors do they typically
make?
Progress on
Academic Lab Safety 02 October 2013 The University of California system has taken a series of encouraging steps to
make its
labs safer.
Identifying and Evaluating Hazards in Research Laboratories, the new ACS report issued in September at the organization's national meeting in Indianapolis, is the society's response to a request the U.S. Chemical Safety Board
made in its landmark 2011 report on
academic lab safety.
The new report also
makes a fine addition to the already groaning shelf of excellent investigations into serious
academic lab disasters.
Scalability — or
making advanced materials in commercially relevant amounts for devices — has been the defining challenge for many of the new, two - dimensional materials being developed in
academic labs.
Using this elegant technological fix, they achieved some of the highest density, highest performance CNTs ever
made — especially given that they did this in an
academic lab with less sophisticated equipment than a commercial fabrication plant.
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.
Researchers, she adds, need to look not just in front of them on the
academic path but also all around them at the job options in other sectors,
making the best choice for themselves rather than the best choice for their
labs.
She says she sees companies as the entities that translate the discoveries
made in
academic labs into the solutions that, in Tengion's case, could solve the donor - organ shortage by allowing patients to regenerate their own organs without using embryonic stem cells.
SBIR awards are
made to small businesses, often in collaboration with
academic labs.
Each makerspace «pops up» in either a classroom, computer
lab, commons area, or the cafeteria during the school's Smart Block, an open period for eating lunch, attending
academic sessions, practicing sports and music — and now for
making things.
But,
academic work like assignment and
lab writing work
makes it a tough task to manage time for studies.
No matter whether they're pursuing medical breakthroughs, refashioning energy technologies,
making computers more useful, or engineering cooler electronic devices — and regardless of whether they are heading startups, working in big companies, or doing research in
academic labs — they all are poised to be leaders in their fields.