Motivated by the fear of possible new federal regulations, university leaders gathered in Washington on Wednesday as part of a national study commission seeking strategies to improve lab-safety conditions. It was the third straight year a commission has convened to scrutinize the issue, motivated by a series of high-profile accidents that illustrated the much poorer safety record of university labs compared with their corporate counterparts. This year’s panel, assembled by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, will emphasize ways of expanding upon and carrying out some of the ideas raised by the previous two commissions, its leaders said.

May 7, 2015 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education