A midweek roundup includes a meeting about fair housing in Rogers, an expansion for a Fayetteville food franchise, and new vehicles for Ozark Regional Transit.
Bentonville High School student Deerthi Karthik earned first place at the Women in Technology Northwest Arkansas Gala for her prototype “Evergreen,” an AI-powered waste-sorting system designed to make sustainability fun and engaging for students.
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Lauryn Higgins, known for her work covering COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine for The New York Times, has joined the University of Arkansas School of Journalism and Strategic Media as an adjunct professor.