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After months of work with a professional consultant and the input from our membership, donors, and academic partners, our chapter developed a comprehensive 3-year strategic plan, and last January, that plan was approved by our membership. Nearly a year into the plan, we have made substantial in-roads on all four strategic...

The 29^th ARCS Foundation Atlanta Chapter Scholar Awards Celebration on November 19th was a milestone. It was decided in February that the yearly face to face gathering should become a virtual one.  With a leap of faith, the committee hit the ground and started running. It took nine months of...

Growing up exploring the outdoors, catching frogs, identifying plants and insects, ARCS Scholar Elizabeth Sajewski was fascinated by the world around her, and even more by how it all worked and fit together – solving puzzles in her own backyard. As a PhD candidate studying environmental health science at Emory University’s...

The January General Membership Meeting was held via Zoom on January 13, 2021 following the Board Meeting. We were thrilled to have one of our current scholars as our speaker. Kantwon Rogers, a BlackRock Scholar, working on his PhD in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, shared a very interesting and engaging...

Congratulations to our 2021 Atlanta ARCS Light, Frances Swensson!  Frances has been a member of ARCS since 2007 and, among many other responsibilities, has served as Chair and Chair-Elect of the Scholar Awards Luncheon, Internal Communications Chair, VP Administration, and VP Membership.  In addition, she has served on, or is serving...

As the new year begins, I write to not only wish you all a happy and healthy 2021 but to ask you to think of how we can continue to support ARCS.  Two areas come immediately to mind. 

First, Membership Renewal. You can easily renew your membership online and pay either...

2020 Hindsight and the Miracle of 2021

As with most hard times, when we look at them in the rearview mirror, we realize that they were full of lessons.  In 2020, we learned things we never realized we needed to know, and now they seem indispensable.  Technology and science saved the...