See more of this week’s Movers & Shakers, and submit your own announcement at ArkansasBusiness.com/Movers-Shakers.
Education
Ed Childs has joined the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville as senior associate dean, clinical affairs. Loretto Glynn has joined as associate dean, clinical affairs, and Jessica Atrio will serve as associate dean, clinical research.
Hendrix College in Conway has appointed six new members to its board of trustees. They are Melissa Taulbee Brighton, owner of TargetSmart of Washington, D.C.; Margaret K. Dorman, former CFO of Smith International of Houston; Jeff Johnson, co-founder of Smith Industrial Construction of Houston; Nathan Kilbourne, senior pastor at Conway First United Methodist Church; Zach Roberts, superintendent of the northeast district of the Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church; and Jennie Williams, an ordained elder in the Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church.
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has selected six first-year students from Arkansas as recipients of Bodenhamer Fellowships, offering up to $80,000 each for education, research and study abroad. The recipients are Geethika Atluri of Little Rock, Miles Batson of Farmington, Ethan Gasaway of Alexander, Mackenzie Settlage of Fort Smith, Sylvia Smith of Fayetteville and Payton Woodruff of Bentonville.
Energy
Lisa Perry, director of utility partnerships-regulatory at Walmart Inc., has been elected chair of the Arkansas Advanced Energy Association of Little Rock. Gary Moody, program officer at Clean Grid Initiative, a project of Multiplier of San Francisco, will serve as vice chair. Elisabeth Bates, head of strategy at Pedal Steel Solar of Bentonville, will be secretary, and David Stitt, vice president of The Stitt Group of Rogers, will be treasurer.
Peter Nierengarten, environmental director of the city of Fayetteville, has been elected chair of the Arkansas Advanced Energy Foundation. Adam Fogleman, the Pulaski County attorney, will be vice chair. Wesley Prewett, program manager at Southern Bancorp of Arkadelphia, will be secretary, and Flint Richter, business development executive at Entegrity of Little Rock, will be treasurer.
Nonprofits
Tanya Cook, a registered nurse, has been elected president of the Northwest Arkansas Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Council of Fayetteville. Chris Seawood, corporate and institutional giving manager at TheatreSquared of Fayetteville, will serve as vice president. Ayanna Bledsoe, director of inclusion and belonging at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, will be secretary, and John L. Colbert, former superintendent of the Fayetteville School District, will be treasurer. Each of the officers will serve one-year terms.
Utilities
Brent Garren, a telecom maintenance senior foreman at Conway Corp., won first place overall for the third year in a row at the Cable Games hosted by the Razorback Chapter of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers. The competition featured cable and fiber splicing, meter reading, drop connections, time domain reflectometer readings and a telecom-themed “Jeopardy!” game. Chad Sayers has been promoted to telecom installer technician 2 after completing the broadband wireless specialist curriculum through the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers.
Colin Jackson has been promoted to supervisor for north-central Arkansas operations at Black Hills Energy of Rapid City, South Dakota. He has been with the company since 2013.
Molly McNulty has been named to the Little Rock Water Reclamation Commission. An adjunct professor at the Bowen School of Law in Little Rock, she sits on several nonprofit boards.
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