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Incoming ARCS National President Caron Ogg learned her work ethic and attention to detail from her father, a physician who worked every day of the year except for Christmas.  Her mother’s work schedule was the same. Her parents and all her grandparents earned college degrees, unusual in those decades. One grandmother earned...

Funds Development is Connecting Donors and Scholars in an Innovative Way

Every year, our donors share how much they love meeting their scholars.  Since we could not gather last year, Funds Development committed to connect them virtually!

We invited all 2020 half- and full- Scholar donors to participate.  We are pleased...

Leading the entire ARCS Foundation National organization is an awesome responsibility.  For the past two years, ARCS Atlanta Chapter has been honored to have Sherry Lundeen, one of our Atlanta members and a former Atlanta Chapter President, serve as our ARCS National President.

Sherry’s commitment to ARCS Foundation has been transformational...

ARCS Foundation is pleased to announce that Erin Dasher has been named President-Elect of the Atlanta Chapter.  Erin will serve as President of the Atlanta Chapter following Leslie Petter for 2022-2024.

Erin has been a member of ARCS Foundation Atlanta since 2016. She has served on the Board of Directors as...

The featured speaker at the Annual Membership meeting, held via Zoom on May 5^th, 2021, was Dr. Beth Cabrera.  Dr. Cabrera, formerly a college professor who moved into leadership development, is currently focused on well-being.  She is also an author, researcher, and motivational speaker. Copies of her book, Beyond...

Dear ARCS Atlanta Members,

Spring is one of the most rewarding and intriguing times of the ARCS year.  It is when we have our annual site visits with the universities and carefully set the stage for next year’s class of scholars.  Even a site visit over Zoom does not diminish the...

Since we could not yet meet in person, Kathryn Graves introduced us to Dr. Allison Chamberlain and facilitated an education event by zoom for ARCS members on March 1, 2021. We are very grateful to Kathryn and Emory University for the introduction and for managing the zoom event. A pracademic is someone...

Every spring ARCS conducts site visits with each of our academic partners.  For the lucky few who get to participate in these visits, it is a chance to work with the administrators who help us organize all the moving parts that make the year run smoothly.  It also gives us the...

We are delighted to announce that Mary O’Connor, the Founding President of our ARCS Atlanta Chapter, will serve as the Honorary Chair of our chapter’s 30^th Anniversary Endowment Campaign. 

2022 will mark the 30^th Anniversary of the founding of the Atlanta Chapter of ARCS Foundation.  The chapter began when...

A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and patient race/ethnicity is still largely unaccounted for in the data of many states and cities across the nation.

ARCS Scholar Katie Labgold says Atlanta is no different. Labgold, an Emory University PhD student in epidemiology, is currently immersed in a study that proposes a...