Perseverance
A slow growing plant that is a symbol of steady, patient growth over time
Tree
An organization can avoid this by defining and limiting gifts and exchanges.
Bribery
"With great power comes great _____"
Responsibility
The annual week-long event at DCLS that brings staff together through food, games, themed dress-up days, and helps build connection throughout the building.
Lab Week
This Frozen character shows empathy by building an entire ice palace so she can process her feelings in peace, an introvert's dream.
Elsa
A phrase used to remind someone about determination: "If at first you don't succeed..."
"Try, try again"
An insider who exposes illegal, unethical, or dangerous practices within an organization to authorities, the media, or upper management.
Whistleblower
The national volunteer organization founded in 1881 that is known for disaster relied and blood drive donations.
The American Red Cross
This trait is the opposite of empathy and is defined as a lack of concern for others’ feelings or well-being.
Apathy
Replication of results that is required in a DCLS validation or verification.
Repeatability/Reproducibility
A foundational set of principles, values, and rules designed to guide the behavior and decisions of individuals within an organization.
Code of Conduct/Ethics
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization known worldwide for building affordable housing through volunteer labor.
Habitat for Humanity
This Nobel Peace Prize winner, formerly imprisoned in South Africa for 27 years, modeled extraordinary compassion by choosing reconciliation and forgiveness over revenge.
Nelson Mandela
The research method where the same variable is measured over an extended period of time.
Longitudinal study
Any person, group, or organization that has an interest in an organization or project and can affect or be affected by its actions, objectives, or policies.
Stakeholder
The annual celebration, first observed in 1970, that encourages communities to protect and improve the environment.
Earth Day
Serving as an early pioneer of modern nursing, this "Lady with the Lamp" displayed deep compassion by tending to wounded soldiers during the Crimean War.
Florence Nightingale
An iterative quality process where a team keeps adjusting protocol, refining methods, and increasing accuracy.
Continuous improvement
The adherence to professional practices, ethical behavior, and the principles of honesty and objectivity when conducting, managing, using the results of, and communicating about science and scientific activities.
Scientific Integrity
The idea that helping someone today may inspire them to help someone else tomorrow.
Paying it forward
This term is defined as the deep feeling of sorrow or pity for another's misfortune, often accompanied by an urge to help.
Compassion