What’s a polymer? According to the American Chemistry Council a polymer is a “useful chemical made of many repeating patterns.” And unless you’re a polymer scientist yourself or are otherwise well versed in what that actually implies, the word polymer is one we’ve likely all heard but don’t really understand. Molecularly Imprinted Polymers, on a … Continue reading Ligar: polymer development + securing intellectual property
A WeWork for scientific labs – maybe messy, definitely necessary
LabCentral is a launchpad for high potential, life science startups. Here, scientists share labs and equipment and coexist in the space. It sounds a lot like WeWork until you consider that the members all wear long white coats and aren't quarreling over phone booth bookings. Rather, these folks share centrifuges, fluorescent microscopes, expensive even corrosive … Continue reading A WeWork for scientific labs – maybe messy, definitely necessary
Ready made course content, at your fingertips
LabArchives is many, many things. It's an electronic notebook. It's a teaching tool, grade book, learning platform and now it's a one stop shop for course content too. Inside of Lab Builder, our new course content library, instructors can find and distribute everything they need for their course like lab manuals, assignments, projects, protocols and … Continue reading Ready made course content, at your fingertips
Adopting an ERN at Duke University
We caught up with Duke Office of Scientific Integrity - ASIST Team to learn more about why Duke decided to offer all institutional members access to LabArchives electronic research notebooks. Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Why did Duke want to use an ERN (electronic research notebook)? With the growing amount of digital data researchers … Continue reading Adopting an ERN at Duke University
Supporting digital notebook usage at UPENN
We caught up with Barak Zahavy at the University of Pennsylvania to find out more about how research offices can support adoption and usage of new digital technologies in professional research labs. Barak has over 20 years experience designing, implementing, and managing highly diversified technology platforms in the university space. He knows better than anyone that … Continue reading Supporting digital notebook usage at UPENN
STATION1: An Orchestra of Socially Minded Inquiry in Science and Technology
This summer we were happy to collaborate once more with Station1. What is Station1? We caught up with MIT professor, scientist and engineer, social entrepreneur and Station1 founder Christine Ortiz to learn a bit more about this new higher education institution and model of “socially-directed” scientific and technological research. Station1 mission The Station1 mission is … Continue reading STATION1: An Orchestra of Socially Minded Inquiry in Science and Technology
Preparing students for where the world is going…digital first
Working digitally has taken off in the education space. And in most spaces at this point. But what does a digital only learning environment actually provide? What’s the real value of switching up age old paper tradition? Just talk to Ines Rauschenbach and Ramaydalis Keddis from Rutgers University who have been in the digital only … Continue reading Preparing students for where the world is going…digital first
From the archives: research
Over the last year we've talked to many of our users about their successes, struggles, papers, research, labs and more. This week we're taking a trip back into the archives to pull out some of our favorite moments and conversations we had with our professional research user group over the last year. This archival journey … Continue reading From the archives: research
New members of our team!
We are growing fast at LabArchives and we are very excited to announce the addition of two new people to our global team. Our main offices are located in Carlsbad, CA and the D.C. metropolitan area, but LabArchives team members can be found scattered throughout the states and abroad. Spread across at least nine time zones at … Continue reading New members of our team!
Streaming STEM
August 2019 Streaming STEM is a monthly installment that brings you the most recent, important, wild and revolutionary news on all things STEM. From geo-engineering, to the largest number of pi, to marine biology, veterinary science and ancestral ghosts each Streaming STEM update is a birds eye view of what’s been going on in the … Continue reading Streaming STEM