College can be an amazing experience, with tons of new friends, new activities, and new foods to try. At the same time, it can be overwhelming trying to balance a busy schedule and a healthy lifestyle. Healthy eating habits are important throughout your life, but especially during college when late-night cramming sessions and a full calendar can easily cause you to deviate from a balanced plan. Here are some tips to maintain a healthy diet.

In this world of hybrid and remote work, the ongoing pandemic, and the great resignation, work can be a stressful place. It certainly looks very different than it did a year ago, and many of your elders might not even recognize the workplace as you know it today. In the modern workplace, it’s easy to become stressed, and hard to find your work-life balance. If this is the case, look to your Native traditions to help ground you, and bring some calm back into your life.
 
Connect with Mother Earth

As working professionals, we’ve all received performance reviews. Some may have been helpful; others may have felt cursory or lackluster. It’s a manager’s responsibility to ensure that direct reports are receiving honest, appropriate, and timely feedback. But the performance review process can be daunting, especially if you have to deliver an unpleasant message. Here are some tips to help deliver performance reviews that resonate with your employees.
 
Provide Feedback on a Consistent Basis

Going to college may be the first time that you are spending a significant amount of time away from your family. It can be hard adjusting to this new normal, where everything is different. Between new schedules, friends, classes, and extracurriculars, college can be overwhelming. Being away can also make it hard to follow your Native traditions. But don’t let this new world keep you from staying connected to your culture. Here are a few ways to follow your Native traditions at college.
 
Choose a School that Supports Your Native Identity

In his job as director of weapons stockpile management at Sandia National Laboratories, Chris O’Gorman manages and leads a diverse team of 400-plus scientists, engineers, and technologists. It’s an important and complex job: O’Gorman is tasked with ensuring the reliability and safety of America’s nuclear weapons stockpile. 

For years Jim Leatham wondered why he looked at the world and behaved in ways that were so different from other people. It’s not as though Leatham wasn’t flourishing. He obtained an undergraduate mechanical engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in electrical engineering/electrophysics from the University of Southern California. 

Deneen Hernandez had an early introduction to criminal justice as well as anatomy and physiology because babysitters were scarce. Her mother, a marshal for the Seneca Nation in New York, pursued a degree in criminal justice and had no choice but to take little Deneen with her to class. “I helped her study criminal justice, like constitutional law and Miranda rights,” says Hernandez, this year’s winner of the Professional of the Year Award.

When Dr. Sonia Ibarra approaches a research project, her first concern is something many scientists don’t even consider: the need to build the trust, relationships, and support of the community where her work will take place.

When Rachel Yellowhair was growing up in the Navajo Nation in Arizona, she didn’t have role models who could paint a picture of what a career in medicine, engineering, or some other STEM field could look like. Still, there were teachers and employees at the coal mine where her father worked whom Yellowhair noticed. “Those are all careers to be commended,” Yellowhair says. “But they were the only role models when I was growing up. I didn’t have a doctor or an engineer or an architect who could say, ‘I’m a Navajo and you can do this too.’”

When Angela Teeple was in middle school in Virginia, she enrolled in Project Lead the Way (PLTW) classes designed to get young people interested in STEM. In her class were Teeple’s best friend — a girl — and a roomful of boys.