m Hadia Choudhary of Searcy High School and Ahilan Eraniyan of Haas Hall Academy Bentonville were selected after an extensive application and interview process to represent the state of Arkansas in the U.S. Senate Youth Program. In addition to meeting with Arkansas Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton, as well as a host of other officials, Choudhary and Eraniyan have been awarded a $10,000 scholarship from the Hearst Foundation to a college of their choice.
History professor Trish Starks book, Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR, which melds her historical research in medicine with Russia, is one of six books being considered for the Pushkin Prize.