2022 Newsletter Editions

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 […]

THE DOMINO EFFECT OF INFLATION It puts technology, and tech workers, in a very strong position Charles D. Morgan CEO of First Orion, and Chairman, ACDS THE WORD INFLATION is universally detested, because it means prices are shooting skyward for homemakers and business leaders alike. Right now in the U.S., we’re experiencing the most serious

Sacha McBain, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Trauma Prevention, Recovery, and Innovation University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences THESE ARE STRESSFUL times, and some of it comes from technology itself: hours and hours on Zoom, overflowing email in-boxes, always on the job, thanks to our many miracle devices. To try

YOU DON’T HAVE to be a poet to celebrate April as a time of renewal. All you have to do is look around you, at the greening trees, the bursting azaleas, the overflowing outdoor terraces. At ACDS, this April brings a special sense of new and better things in the offing for us and for

Networking is something you do, not something you sit back and wait for. IF YOU’RE BUILDING a career or are on-mission to impact professionals all over the world… You need to be on LinkedIn. Now reaching 800 million users, LinkedIn is where professionals hang out. It’s not solely a place for people looking for jobs

MEET AMBER BAUMANN Age: 28 Hometown: Highlands Ranch, CO Apprenticeship: Dentsu International MY BACK STORY Growing up, I was all over the place thinking what I wanted to do. At one point I thought I wanted to be a lawyer. At another point, in high school, I thought I wanted to be in the medical

Philip Dale Huff, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity and Director of Research, Trojan Cyber Arena, University of Arkansas Little Rock Photo: Brian Chilson DR. PHILIP HUFF is an educator and a research scientist. But it may come as a surprise to outsiders to know that, like many researchers, he’s also an entrepreneur. A couple of

TWO YEARS ON ZOOM Turns out nobody was ready for their close-up Compiled by Crystal Hartman IT’S ALWAYS ALL about us, isn’t it? It was bad enough having to put up with the body shaming mobs on social media, but at least no one was making us get on Instagram. So when March 2020 arrived

CALL IT A transformation, or a disruption, or an upgrade, but by any definition the process of scouting one’s future competition in basketball has evolved, thanks to technology. It used to be an assistant coach’s job to “scout” the competition by attending some of their games, to which the coach brought only his (or her)

Apprentices on Apprenticeships Insights and advice from members of the ‘Class of ’21’ WE DIDN’T SET out to make this the “training issue” of the ACDS newsletter. But once we settled on Dr. Donald Walker as this month’s Q & A, it just seemed natural to also include a handful of Registered Apprentices talking about