Joshua Arens

Joshua is a Fulbright and Truman Scholar and a senior at the University of South Dakota. He is studying chemistry with minors in mathematics and Spanish. Outside of class, he is an amateur pianist, a volunteer at the Vermillion Food Pantry, a volunteer coach for the YHS debate team, a Student Government Association senator, and the mentor program coordinator for Honors Association. During the summer, he enjoys traveling: in 2014, he spent the summer in England through a Fulbright Summer Program, and in 2015, he participated in chemistry research at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR. Last year, he conducted polymer research at the University of California, Berkeley. He plans to complete his bachelor’s degree by May 2017, and then investigate renewable energies at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia in Tarragona, Spain through a Fulbright research award.