STARKVILLE, Miss.—More than 120 Mississippi State faculty, staff and students listened to advice from the editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals Thursday [April 6]. Holden Thorp is a ...

Although attitudes towards lab safety have grown more positive over the years, some academic researchers still believe that safe lab practices hamper research productivity. The idea is that time spent ...

Ensuring student safety in undergraduate teaching laboratories is a critical component of the responsibilities of the Department of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S). It is very difficult for ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Each student will receive two copies of the "Laboratory Safety" and "Eye Safety and Medical Information" sheet (attached,. They must read the colored copy, sign it (indicating their planned compliance ...

What are Academic Lab Safety Teams? LSTs, or Laboratory Safety Teams, are student-led groups that play a pivotal role in promoting a strong safety culture within their respective laboratories, ...

Whenever London-based cell biologist Jennifer Rohn joins a new lab, she finds herself being ushered over to a cardboard box filled with an array of lab coats. It’s then that she’s given her first task ...

It is the responsibility of the RIT EH&S Department to help ensure faculty, staff, students, and visitors have a safe and healthy working and learning environment in all RIT owned and operated ...

The public’s view of the scientific endeavor often conjures up stereotypical imagery: a begoggled and lab-coated researcher sitting in a stark room operating ergonomically designed technology. But as ...

A safe space may look different for many people. For some it might be their room, a club on campus, a group they relate with, or even a class. For Derrick Banks Jr, the ILLEST Lab in the School of ...

Safe Science examines the culture of safety in research institutions and makes recommendations for university leadership, laboratory researchers, and environmental health and safety professionals to ...