Earlier this month, Next Wave's Career Development Center for Postdocs and Junior Faculty presented Part 1 of From Science Fair to Science Fare, in which Mike McClure, of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, compared a university laboratory to a store in a shopping mall. The overhead on your grants, he said, is equivalent to the rent for your laboratory space. Management will ...
Each year universities, government agencies, and private philanthropies invest billions of dollars in scientific research. Yet little is done to help scientists prepare for managing this money, or the laboratory it pays for. Why is there such a dearth of lab-management resources out there? The culture of modern research is still, in large part, set in an era of science that has now passed, the er...
