Cover Story | Volume 17 - Issue 6 | July/August 2022
Creating a Culture of Innovation
Build the environment that can sustain the innovation journey
Sections
Management Tips
Three Keys to Getting Better Ideas
How to improve idea generation in the lab
Leadership and Staffing
Creating a Culture of Innovation
Build the environment that can sustain the innovation journey
Characteristics of an Innovative Mindset
How individual traits and qualities can be an asset to the innovation process
Stories from the Most Innovative School in the US
Learn how three engineers innovate and spur it in others
Gauging the Weather, the Anna Mani Way
The weather woman of India, Anna Mani, was a pioneer and renowned physicist who made significant contributions to the study of solar radiation and meteorological instrumentation
This Trailblazer Shattered Barriers to Deep-Sea Exploration
Sylvia Earle, PhD, left an indelible mark on oceanography and deep-sea research by pushing the limits of possibility
A Collaborative Approach to Integrative Physiology
Bengt Saltin was a distinguished scholar and mentor in the field of exercise physiology
Business Management
Identifying and Addressing Efficiency Gaps in the Lab
Driving change through incremental innovation
Lab Design and Furnishings
Innovative Lab Design for Collaborative Researchers
Caltech Chen Neuroscience Research Building wins Excellence in Innovation prize in 2022 Design Excellence Awards
INSIGHTS
Homage to the Heroines of Scientific History
Stories and controversies of the women who spurred innovation but were spurned
Finding Inspiration in Nature and Biomimicry
Studying biological organisms to find material and structural solutions
Ask the Expert
How Collaborations with Non-Scientists Can Lead to Innovation in Science
Tina Phillips, PhD, discusses how citizen scientists can contribute to new scientific tools and discoveries
Surveys
Lab Manager Reader Survey: Innovation
Our readers share their thoughts on innovation in the workplace