~ Fun fact, possibly relevant to Lib-Lab negotiations: Both the Lib Dems' Nick Clegg and Labour's Ed Miliband Davidd's brother and cabinet colleague) were student interns at The Nation in New York.
"In the lab," agrees postdoc and negotiation team member Yi Qiao, "every postdoc is happy.
The decision appeared to be the result of negotiations between Watson and the lab's Board of Trustees, which suspended him from the chancellor's post last week.
Academic success is often defined by papers and funding, but these achievements are based on other skills such as time management, networking, negotiation, and the management of lab personnel.
In one study, participants were college students who were brought in the lab in pairs to do a mock negotiation.
Where Two Issues Stand 5 February 2010 Lab safety slowly advances, while University of California postdoc contract negotiations stall.
The objectives of this research are to design a lab prototype of a sales agent with persuasion and negotiation capabilities and to evaluate its effectiveness as a virtual clerk in an e-store.
Lab safety is now a heightened concern in the contract negotiations currently under way between the University of California and the new union representing the postdocs on its 10 campuses, including UCLA, says UC Berkeley postdoc Matthew Okii" O'Connor, a member of the union negotiation team.
Talks on a BWC protocol broke down last summer, when the U.S. delegation pulled out of negotiations due to concerns that enforcement measures--such as lab inspections--might compromise national security and threaten biotech companies (Science, 20 July, p. 414).
This knowledge isn't only for those in the corner office; even if you occupy just a small corner of the lab bench, studying the interpersonal relations that go on in a negotiation can be very rewarding.
