Lab Manager Magazine helps provide a forum and a framework to help lab professionals hire and supervise staff, establish a laboratory, and plan a coherent research program, while keeping the goals of good science and scientific discovery at the forefront.

Most lab managers, by education and experience, are thoroughly capable of handling the technical aspects of their jobs, but their managerial skills are often obtained haphazardly.

Lab Manager Magazine is written with those managers in mind and has the distinct editorial mission of providing practical information on business, strategy, leadership and staffing as well as the industry and technology news needed to effectively manage today's lab.

Managerial skills for most lab managers are often obtained haphazardly.

Lab Manager Magazine is written with those managers in mind and has the distinct editorial mission of providing practical information on business,  leadership and staffing as well as the industry and technology news needed to effectively manage today's lab.

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Download Lab Manager Magazine, April 2009

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Investment Confidence
Highlights of our 2009 Investment Confidence Survey provide a glimpse into the investment decisions being made by laboratory management in staffing, outsourcing, facility improvement and new technologies—taking the pulse of confidence in economic security in these uncertain times.

Energy Efficiency
Instituting economical ways to save electricity could save about threequarters of the electricity consumed in the U.S. at an average cost of about one cent per kilowatt-hour, according to Amory Lovins, chairman and chief scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute. What does this mean for laboratory managers and their employers?

LEADERSHIP & STAFFING
20 “Scientist” Stereotype:
Is It Working For or Against You?
The reality is that most scientists are pretty normal people, at least outside the laboratory setting. There are some unique characteristics that may be more prevalent in the scientific community, and most of those characteristics can contribute positively to the organization.

TECHNOLOGY & OPERATIONS
24 Greening Cold Storage
With the aim of increasing sample integrity, designers have looked at cold storage energy sinks, associated components and subsystems to increase system efficiency. As a result, a new breed of cold storage provides greater sample protection while being kinder to the environment.

LAB DESIGN & FURNISHINGS
28 Energy-Saving Exhaust Systems
An energy savings of 15 percent or more is available through the use of VAV laboratory exhaust ventilation systems. When properly designed, a VAV system can provide these savings without adversely impacting the air quality at downwind air intake locations or sensitive locations.

BUSINESS & FINANCE
42 Integrating Laboratory Automation
Regardless of what stage your lab is in, planning is essential to the successful application of automation and information technologies.

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“April is the cruellest month...”
begins the first line of The Waste Land, the signature modernist poem by T.S. Eliot (1922). With the economy being what it is, 401K investments being what they are, taxes due April 15th, and other grim realities, April might, in fact, feel a bit cruel.

Apropos of those realities, Lab Manager Magazine this month looks at the issue of confidence in this current financial malaise. Before the stimulus package but after Wall Street’s slide, we asked nearly 500 of you what your upcoming budgets looked like and where you expected your laboratory investment dollars to go. We were somewhat surprised by the guarded confidence and dogged optimism many of you shared, highlights of which are presented in our feature article on page 10. ...

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