Dear Chairs and Directors, As always, you are welcome to share the updates and reminders in this message with faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students who may find the information and links helpful. COVID-19 update As the COVID pandemic begins to trend in a better direction, employees who remained off-campus during the surge are now returning to the work arrangements they had planned for
Dear Chairs and Directors, Happy new year! We hope you found opportunities to rest and recharge over the winter closure. As always, you are welcome and encouraged to share the updates and reminders in this message with faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students who may find the information and links helpful. Transition announcement As announced in December, Kam Moler has been named transition
Dear Chairs and Directors, As always, you are welcome and encouraged to share these updates and reminders with faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students who may find the information and links helpful. Omicron variant Stanford is closely following updates about the new Omicron variant. While we are still learning about the variant’s severity and transmissibility, we urge all members of our
Dear Chairs and Directors, As always, you are welcome and encouraged to share these updates and reminders with faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students who may find the information and links helpful. We have no new policies or procedures related to research during the pandemic at this time. This note contains updates on a new research development to help with some proposals; sponsored
Dear Chairs and Directors, This academic year, we are broadening the scope of the chairs and directors research continuity update to include not only pandemic research recovery updates, but also other matters of interest to our research community. As always, you are welcome and encouraged to share these updates and reminders with faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students who may find the
Dear Chairs and Directors, With stage 3 of the research recovery well underway, we will be moving our chairs and directors memo to an approximately monthly cadence. As always, you are welcome and encouraged to share these updates and reminders with faculty, staff members, postdocs, and graduate students who may find the information and links helpful. Return to on-site work As more faculty and
June 25, 2021 Dear Chairs and Directors, Effective Saturday, June 26, when the restricted period ends for undergraduates traveling to campus for summer quarter, Stanford will implement new Cal/OSHA guidance. In alignment with updated guidance from Cal/OSHA, research activities at Stanford will move to Stage 3. In Stage 3, each academic department may adjust research activity levels depending on
June 9, 2021 Dear Chairs and Directors, As always, you are welcome and encouraged to share these updates and reminders with faculty, staff members, postdocs, and graduate students who may find the information and links helpful. Anticipated changes to health and safety protocols We’ve received a number of questions about when we will be able to loosen health and safety protocols in our research
May 21, 2021 Dear Chairs and Directors, As always, you are welcome and encouraged to share these updates and reminders with faculty, staff members, postdocs, and graduate students who may find the information and links helpful. Undergraduate research policies for summer quarter For summer quarter, undergraduates not living in residence but living in the local area (within 150 miles) may apply for
May 7, 2021 Dear Chairs and Directors, As always, you are welcome and encouraged to share these updates and reminders with faculty, staff members, postdocs, and graduate students who may find the information and links helpful. Testing program changes The university recently announced changes to the COVID-19 testing program for those living on or coming to campus. Beginning May 2, routine
