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It’s Official – Video Games Are Good For You!

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Damian Davini |

Research that we have waited our whole lives to be released, has made it official: video games are good for young people. What we have been telling our parents for years has finally hit the headlines in an article by…

Jon Stewart is not quite “Roundup Ready” when it comes to Intellectual Property Law

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Jeffrey Waldin |

I usually appreciate how Jon Stewart and the staff at The Daily Show carefully “cultivate” and “harvest” their subjects. There is something that appeals to my sense of integrity when bad behavior is “weeded” out, and his commentary is subversively…

USDA Annual Reports

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Matthew Tanner |

The USDA through APHIS has released an electronic version of the USDA Annual Report form (7023), which Animal Facilities are required to file annually. Their brief announcement reads: “In an effort to streamline the process and make things easier and…

Sequestration Countermeasures

Posted on September 16, 2013 by admin |

No, not that King James…LeBron James, King of the Hardcourt. Listen, if you want to succeed in the midst of sequestration, you have no choice but to take your game to a whole new level. Just like LeBron James did…

Losing In The Trenches

Posted on September 16, 2013 by admin |

Stop bickering and start working together…please! Episode 8 of a 12 part series where Edward Johnson Jr. (a.k.a. Eddie) sits down with Sandra Nordahl, President, Society of Research Administrators International (SRA), to discuss the mission of SRA and the effects…

Sequestration-1-2-3-Punch

Posted on September 6, 2013 by admin |

Just what we need — More budget meetings…Thanks sequestration! Episode 7 of a 12 part series where Edward Johnson Jr. (a.k.a. Eddie) sits down with Sandra Nordahl, President, Society of Research Administrators International (SRA), to discuss the mission of SRA…

Information Breach – Beware the Photocopier Hard Drive

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Jeffrey Waldin |

One health plan provider learned an expensive lesson. Affinity Health Plan, Inc. returned multiple photocopiers to leasing agents without erasing the data contained on the copier hard drives. As a result, the private health information of up to 344,579 individuals…

How Sequestration Killed Bunnies

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Roger Wood |

Recently, the Huffington Post looked in-depth at how sequestration’s budget cuts were affecting scientific research. In 2013, $1.7 billion will be trimmed from the NIH budget due to sequestration. The impact of those cuts are being felt in many ways…

Round Wheel And A Square Hole

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Eddie Johnson Jr. |

We have just come off of another great conference, NCURA 2013. We have always done well at these conferences, even more so in the past few years. Last year when considering our success at these conferences, I wrote an article…

What’s going on with STEM Education in the US?

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Roger Wood |

In April, as part of the Obama Administration’s 2014 budget request, President Obama proposed reorganizing how we would spend roughly $3.1 billion in STEM education programs. The stated goal of this reorganization is to “make disciplined choices to reorganize and…