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Usibelli honored as UAF business leader of year

The University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Management will honor Joe Usibelli Jr. as its 44th Business Leader of the Year during a sold-out dinner and award ceremony at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 18, in the Westmark Fairbanks Hotel's Gold Room.


Training: Mental Health Awareness for Leaders

This course covers ways employees may present their distress and offers insights and strategies on forging supportive empathic alliances within the role of manager. Participants are also given information on how to refer employees to the Employee Assistance Program. Please visit myUA for more information and to sign up to attend this webinar on Friday, Nov. 18 from 10 a.m. to noon.


Winter Wellness: Adventuring in our winter wonderland

This is the final week of the Winter Wellness campaign in MBS! Students can stop by the Student Health and Counseling table in the MBS between noon and 2 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 18 to chat and gather ideas and resources for getting out and about and exploring their surroundings this winter. They can also pick up a Save the Date reminder for the Winter Wellness Party taking place Dec. 2, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in Hess Rec.


Photo of Kristin Denryter standing in the Alaskan tundra with caribou during the summer.IAB Life Sciences seminar Nov. 18

The IAB Life Sciences Seminars continue through a combined format, in-person and via Zoom. This week, Kristin Denryter, Ph.D., wildlife physiologist and director of the Foraging Ecology & Wildlife Nutritional Analysis Lab, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, will present "Straight from the caribou's mouth: tame animals reveal nutritional value of plant communities varies widely during summer." For more information, please visit the IAB website about this seminar.


Fellowships available for education students

Education students can create a series of STEM lessons and earn $2,500! Students must be an elementary or secondary teacher education student doing a classroom practicum. Students are encouraged to incorporate NASA education materials in all classrooms, including visual and performing arts, social studies, health and physical education, and the humanities. Applications for the 2023 spring semester are due Dec. 1, 2022.

Deadlines and reminders


Book adoptions for spring 2023 due ASAP

Though our initial deadline for book adoptions has passed (Oct. 28), we are still accepting book adoptions so materials are available for students in time to prepare for spring classes! If you have any questions about the book adoption process, please don't hesitate to contact Karissa Noragon, the UAF Bookstore manager, or call the store at 907-474-6858.


UAF Fairbanks Flutists Ensemble. Photo by Kes Woodward.Music and More Series with the Fairbanks Flutists

Support six of our flute students in the Music and More Series with the Fairbanks Flutists this Sunday, Nov. 20 from 3-4:30 p.m. in the First United Methodist Church located at 915 2nd Ave, Fairbanks, AK 99701. Admission is free!


UAF staff member Sarah Garcia's Christmas tree.

Combat the winter with Staff Council

The University Advocacy Committee is starting a conversation about what staff members do or experience during the winter times that helps them stay healthy and happy. We will be posting some questions for staff (faculty can join in too), and we will collect responses and photos for over a few weeks then send out another post such as this with a new link to the next week or two's questions and some of the responses we received from the previous questions.


About Cornerstone

The Cornerstone employee newsletter is produced by University Relations and emailed to all UAF staff and faculty. You can submit news items here.

 

UAF is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, educational institution and provider and prohibits illegal discrimination against any individual: www.alaska.edu/nondiscrimination/.