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The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics recently recognized ARCS MWC Member Mary L. Snitch with the AIAA Distinguished Service Award for her distinguished service to the Institute over a period of years ranging from tireless advocacy for funding to national and international influence on aerospace policy. Mary L. Snitch currently holds the...

Urinary stone disease is a sensitive but extremely common affliction which affects nearly 1 in 10 Americans at some point in their lifetime. Jessica Saw has dedicated her studies, first as a M.D. at the Mayo Medical School in Minnesota and later as a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois...

When she was an first-year student at the College of William and Mary, Ellen Stofan got her first dream job, as an intern in the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian’s popular National Air and Space Museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C. A few decades later, in...

Thanks to decades of research, HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence, and people with the virus are living longer. But that increased longevity presents its own challenges, as people with HIV experience more health complications. Brooks Mitchell, a scientist at the University of Hawaii, has been studying those complications in...

When ARCS scholar Adam Marcinkowski says there’s nothing on Earth like the things he’s studying at the Colorado School of Mines, he means it quite literally.
 
Space mining, just as it implies, involves the extraction of resources from the Moon, Mars, and asteroids that would be necessary to support extra-terrestrial...

This white paper discusses the topics and points made during a panel discussion, Future innovations in Biomedical Science, at the ARCS Foundation 2018 All Members Conference: Scientific Innovation for the Next Generation in Washington, D.C. Held at the Willard Hotel, the panel featured thought leaders and experts in a discussion of...

ARCS Foundation is pleased to announce that it has added four approved programs at three of its existing academic partner universities that are now eligible for funding through ARCS Scholar Awards. ARCS Foundation’s strategy to impact scientific advancement by supporting STEM candidates requires an effective partnership with universities across the nation...

Portland, OR – An ARCS member honored ARCS Foundation Oregon with a $1.5 million bequest to support its signature scholar awards program in perpetuity. This is the largest gift to date for the Oregon Chapter and significantly increases the Chapter’s ability to sustain its mission at a new level.

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Each year, millions of couples in the United States and around the world struggle with infertility. One ARCS Utah Scholar Alum is helping make important strides to end that struggle for many. Alex Jafek is part of a research team that has found that it may be possible to improve the...

ARCS members and guests had an “out-of-this-world” experience when they toured the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) during the AMC. The highlight for many was two NASM Docents—Mark Jones and Elli Nesbitt (ARCS Metro Washington Chapter)—giving tours of some of NASM’s iconic space artifacts. Among them is a replica of...