May 2022

ROAD TRIP! Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines IT’S THAT TIME of year…not to mention that moment in our two-year pent-up existence when we’re all terminally weary of staying home and climbing the walls. All that, plus the governor’s goal of making Arkansas a global leader in next-generation mobility (see This Month’s Q & A), […]

Alan Mantooth, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, The Twenty-First Century Research Leadership Chair in Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas WE AMERICANS HAVE always been a restless lot, yearning for stability while we dream of the road. Cars equal freedom, and what’s more American than that? Now, today, Governor Asa Hutchinson has set the goal

MEET DAWN HICKS Age: 33 Hometown: Fordyce, AR Apprenticeship: PeopleShores MY BACK STORY Fordyce was very much a small town, in a very rural area. And I knew my whole life that I wanted to get out and get to a bigger city, because if you stick around there you had a very limited idea

THESE ARE EXCITING times in Arkansas. As you’ve probably heard, the governor has set our state the goal of becoming a leader in next-generation mobility by the year 2030. Read this month’s Q & A with University of Arkansas research professor Dr. Alan Mantooth, and you’ll get a sense of the scope of this ambitious