BeWell spoke with Carole Pertofsky, MEd, Stanford Director Emerita, Health Promotion Services and Lecturer, School of Medicine, and coach, on how we can shift our mindset to better handle disappointments and obstacles and what we can do to cultivate more joy and meaning in each day.
Message to postdocs announces new financial aid programs
Stacey F. Bent, Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs and Elizabeth Zacharias, Vice President for Human Resources provide information on new financial aid programs to assist Postdocs.
Joel Gonzalez, lauded as a ‘very creative thinker,’ wins a 2020 Amy J. Blue Award
Joel Gonzalez, a media technician in Event Services, will receive an Amy J. Blue Award on Feb. 11. The award honors staff members who are exceptionally dedicated, supportive of colleagues and passionate about their work.
Cindy Ng, a pillar of Stanford’s Asian American community, wins a 2020 Amy J. Blue Award
Cindy Ng, the Scott J.J. Hsu Director of the Asian American Activities Center, will receive an Amy J. Blue Award on Feb. 11. The award honors staff members who are exceptionally dedicated, supportive of colleagues and passionate about their work.
Arthel Coleman, Jr., ‘collaborator and peacemaker,’ wins an Amy J. Blue Award
Arthel Coleman, Jr., manager of student residential services at the Graduate School of Business, will receive an Amy J. Blue Award on Feb. 11. The award honors staff members who are exceptionally dedicated, supportive of colleagues and passionate about their work.
Melissa Fritchle, who teaches a Mindfulness in Relationships online course in the Healthy Living program, offers guidance on how to nurture healthy personal partnerships.
After gathering input from recent new hires and conducting external best practices research, the onboarding experience for newly hired staff has evolved from an all-day orientation event to a series of live virtual sessions spread out over the first month of employment.
Employees with an FSA can access their full unused balance from 2020
Stanford employees will not forfeit any unused money from their 2020 health care FSA or dependent day care FSA, and may change their current 2021 elections with this new information.
The awards honor the life and work of the late Amy J. Blue, associate vice president for administrative services and facilities, who was known as a woman of incisive intelligence, abundant energy and unrelenting honesty.
