The AALAS Board of Trustees Summer Business Session will be held June 20 and 22 in Memphis, Tennessee. Members are encouraged to contact their district trustees if they have any issues they want addressed. Board meetings, except for closed sessions, are open to AALAS members. AALAS does not reimburse expenses for attending the meeting.
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
The Cost of Caring: Recognizing Human Emotions in the Care of Laboratory Animals brochure assists all members of the research team in providing suggestions and resources for managing human emotions in the care of laboratory animals.
The brochure describes some of the emotions that may be felt by staff members, discusses ways staff members may express grief, and provides suggestions for coping strategies that may be helpful in dealing with the grief.
This PDF brochure is available from the Free Downloads section of the AALAS website: www.aalas.org/bookstore/downloads.asp.
The brochure describes some of the emotions that may be felt by staff members, discusses ways staff members may express grief, and provides suggestions for coping strategies that may be helpful in dealing with the grief.
This PDF brochure is available from the Free Downloads section of the AALAS website: www.aalas.org/bookstore/downloads.asp.
AALAS is pleased to announce that Nobel Prize-winning scientist Oliver Smithies will serve as keynote speaker for the National Meeting in Indianapolis. On October 8, 2007, Smithies was announced as co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Mario Capecchi of the University of Utah and Martin Evans of Cardiff University for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells.Tuesday, 4 March 2008
The deadline for AALAS National Meeting topic submissions is March 15. You may view the requirements on the National Meeting website at http://nationalmeeting.aalas.org/callforabs.asp.
All topic submissions--Seminars, Special Topic Lectures, Panel Discussions (formerly Round Table Discussions), Workshops, Technical Trade Presentations--can be submitted through AALAS Abstract Central at http://aalas.abstractcentral.com/.
If you need assistance with the site, please contact Betty Cartwright (betty.cartwright@aalas.org), Carolyn Simonton (carolyn.simonton@aalas.org), or John Farrar (john.farrar@aalas.org).
All topic submissions--Seminars, Special Topic Lectures, Panel Discussions (formerly Round Table Discussions), Workshops, Technical Trade Presentations--can be submitted through AALAS Abstract Central at http://aalas.abstractcentral.com/.
If you need assistance with the site, please contact Betty Cartwright (betty.cartwright@aalas.org), Carolyn Simonton (carolyn.simonton@aalas.org), or John Farrar (john.farrar@aalas.org).
Monday, 11 February 2008
AALAS' 2008 Laboratory Animal Facility Compensation Survey has been extended to March 1.
Friday, 8 February 2008
Dr. K. B. Patel of Zydus Research Center in Ahmedabad, India, provided these photos of India's first International Tech Week celebration. Dr. Patel said there was involvement from top management, and the "animal care people were very happy to have this type of celebration, recognition, and some new learning, too."
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
AALAS President Chris Newcomer (left) recounts that "Twenty years ago, as a young director, I successfully recruited Ms. Hant-Yut Chin ("Sam") Wong to work as an animal technician at Tufts University. She was awarded the Assistant Laboratory Animal Technician /Cagewasher Award, a honor she highly deserved for decades of inexhaustible dedication, perfect execution on the job, and an ever-sunny demeanor."Sam is shown bracketed by her first and current (Scott Perkins) directors and the 2008 and 2009 AALAS Presidents. I personally find there are few moments in my professional life that bring as much joy as this. I have often reminded my staff that in our line of service, in order to be considered competent, we need to deliver better animal care services and research assistance on our worst day, than our clients would deliver for themselves on their best day. Sam was the kind of employee that reliably and commendably met that standard, and in terms of my own career development (and achievements) it's fair to say that Sam, and other talented and dedicated folks like her, held the ladder so I could do the climbing."
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