The scientific publishing process can be: Time consumingTediousStressfulFull of formatting woesVery slow LabArchives and Qeios have teamed up to take on this process. These two products streamline both parts of the equation (inquiry/analysis and publication) to empower researchers and put their findings to work faster. And the best part? You can use both platforms for … Continue reading Forget formatting fears and general publishing pain
Authentic learning: a study in pre-health curriculum
If there are any fields of study that prepare students to do ‘real world’ scientific work, you’d hope medicine would be one. Unfortunately, this isn't always the case. Authentic course experiences, however, equip students for practical, real-time situations in their respective fields. The good news? A recent study, published in the Journal of Chemical Education, … Continue reading Authentic learning: a study in pre-health curriculum
UNC HIV Cure Center: a collaborative approach
UNC’s HIV Cure Center was co-founded in 2015 by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and GlaxoSmithKline. In 2018, the partnership was transitioned to ViiV Healthcare. The center’s core mission? Leverage and align resources from the private sector and academia to accelerate HIV research and find a cure. UNC's HIV Cure Center The center … Continue reading UNC HIV Cure Center: a collaborative approach
Lab Builder course packs… check them out!
LabArchives is now releasing course packs within Lab Builder. Lab Builder is our content library full of high quality course content that instructors can pick and choose from to create custom lab courses. Course packs contain everything instructors need to teach a course including protocols, projects and assignments. LabArchives is now a one stop shop … Continue reading Lab Builder course packs… check them out!
Ligar: polymer development + securing intellectual property
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
LabCentral x LabAgenda
LabCentral is a launchpad for high potential life science startups. Think part incubator, part co-working space outfitted with functional life science labs that are shared between startups who coexist in the space. LabCentral is an interesting and complex concept and they’ve been using LabAgenda, LabArchives resource scheduling tool, for two years to keep the whole … Continue reading LabCentral x LabAgenda
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
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
