Congress Reconsiders Workforce Legislation
Congress is once again considering legislation to address workforce training and employment as a means of putting Americans back to work. Workforce legislation has typically been addressed through the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). Originally enacted in 1998, WIA serves as the preeminent federal employment service and job training law. Read more

For more than a decade, Kathryn “Kat” Milly West, MS, MT(ASCP), has been instilling a love of scientific inquiry in elementary and high school students with the hopes that they will become laboratory professionals one day. Read more

Karen Johnson, MD, worked in a rural clinic in southern Belize in February that had three examining rooms, a sparsely equipped lab, a pharmacy, and a couple of microscopes that local clinicians thought were broken. “The microscopes actually worked, but there was a lack of knowledge about how to use them,” says Dr. Johnson, a pathology resident at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., who received a $2,000 ASCP Resident Subspecialty Grant to work in the field of global health in Belize. Read more

When John Baci, MBA, CPM, began his career as a laboratory professional nearly 30 years ago, there were very few formal programs available to teach laboratory management skills as his career progressed. He learned from colleagues to develop budgets, measure laboratory productivity, and manage operations, staff, and existing laboratory procedures and protocols. Read more