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A tool for the sciences and humanities
While they have very different roles, Courtney Kearney and Marcello Canuto both straddle the divide between hard sciences and humanities in their work at Tulane University. Courtney, the university’s Scholarly Engagement Librarian, works with faculty and students in...
Forget formatting fears and general publishing pain
The scientific publishing process can be time consuming, tedious, stressful, full of formatting woes and very slow. LabArchives and Qeios have teamed up to take on this process. These two products streamline both parts of the equation (inquiry/analysis and...
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...
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...
Polymer development + securing IP
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The switch to teaching digitally CAN be simple
K.I.S.S or 'Keep It Simple Stupid' is a rule to live by. It holds in almost every setting, including the classroom. STEM instructors have a lot to manage - TAs, students, labs, exams, grade books and their own research. With so much to juggle, simplifying wherever...
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...
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...
Peppy: VR for the classroom
We built LabArchives to help our users work more efficiently and achieve better outcomes in order to learn more. And a lot of our users are on that same mission. LabArchives users can be found on every continent (except Antarctica) and work in an array of disciplines....
Confessions of the Brown Lab: Staying Organized
Lab work isn't all serious. And we love it when our users embrace the fun side of things (while still following safety protocols, of course). We were excited to stumble upon this blog curated by a LabArchives lab. "Confessions of the Brown Lab Researchers" is written...
Streaming STEM
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...
Case study: helping kids through genetic research
Sally Moody, Lab Director and Department Chair of Anatomy and Cell Biology at George Washington University, is using developmental genetics to understand how the early nervous system forms. At the moment she is investigating new genes that may be linked to a birth...
Using technology at the bench
The Lab Bench The laboratory bench is a researcher's sacred space. The place where experimentation comes to life and fruitful learning emerges (hopefully). The bench is the essence of research itself. As physicist and Nobel laureate, Leon Lederman, once said........