May 2021

MEET JODI-ANN CLOUGH Age: 34 Hometown: Kingston, Jamaica Apprenticeship: Arvest Bank MY BACK STORY I grew up in Jamaica, lived there for most of my adult life. My family was in the gaming industry, and I worked there growing up. In fact, I’m still on the board. I like to start out by telling people […]

IT’S GRADUATION TIME again, and that calls for congratulations across the board. After the challenges of COVID, the 2021 school year is finally culminating in our kindergartners being promoted to first graders, our middle school students becoming high schoolers, and our high school grads moving on to opportunities in Higher Ed. I have a personal

Sandra Leiterman, Managing Director, UA Little Rock’s Trojan Cyber Arena IF THE JOB is to spread the word about cybersecurity—both its personal dangers and its career opportunities—who better to head the mission than a teacher? And not just any teacher, but one whose chosen specialty is middle school. “Middle school is really when they make

I, ALGORITHMHow hidden computations dominate our lives Stephen R. Addison, Ph.D.,Professor of PhysicsDean, College of Natural Sciences and MathematicsUniversity of Central Arkansas IF YOU PERFORM a Google search for the word algorithm, you’ll be presented with many different results, the first of which is a dictionary definition that reads, “…a process or set of rules