The featured speaker at the Annual Membership meeting, held via Zoom on May 5th, 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...
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...
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 30th Anniversary Endowment Campaign.
2022 will mark the 30th 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 UniversityPhD student in epidemiology, is currently immersed in a study that proposes a...
The 29th 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...
