This month, three teaching assistants in the college of science became the first at the University of Nevada, Reno to be formally recognized for their success in chemistry laboratory safety. These ...

When it comes to training students and postdoctoral researchers to work safely in academic laboratories, it is hard to overemphasize the importance of the head of the lab—the principal investigator ...

Recognizing it is typical in the world of chemistry-lab safety to point out what people are doing wrong, employees in Environmental Health & Safety set out to create a program to highlight what’s ...

A fire at one university that led to a researcher’s death and an explosion at another that seriously injured a graduate student are among several incidents in the past few years that have turned a ...

While artificial intelligence (AI) models have proved useful in some areas of science, like predicting 3D protein structures, ...

Within the aged labyrinth of the Molecular Sciences Building in South Campus, a painful memory still resonates ““ one that prompted revisions in laboratory safety at UCLA in recent years. Andrew Lech ...

Myriam Vidal Valero is a freelance journalist from Mexico. In August 2016, Margaret Braasch-Turi began her graduate studies in the department of chemistry at Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort ...

Jessica A. Martin, Ph.D. Product Manager, Online Learning & Training, ACS Publications Jessica is a Product Manager with ACS Publications focused developing lab safety courses in the online learning ...

Like this puzzle, chemical safety has several pieces that together create the whole picture for working with chemicals in a safe manner. At the center of this puzzle is you, the employee or student.

A 15-year-old student and teacher sustained burns when a fire erupted during a chemistry experiment at Brookline High School’s summer program on July 3. The incident highlights the need for laboratory ...

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 ...

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