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Organizers of the annual ARCS® Foundation (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation, Inc.) conference in Washington, D.C., are excited to announce The Honorable Deborah L. Wince-Smith will deliver the keynote address. Ms. Wince-Smith is the president & CEO of the Council on Competitiveness, a coalition of CEOs, university presidents, labor leaders...

As enthusiasm builds for the 2018 All Members Conference, ARCS® Foundation is pleased to welcome Lockheed Martin as the presenting sponsor of the event. The annual AMC will be held April 25-28 at the historic Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security...

Wesley T. Fuhrman is an ARCS Metro Washington Chapter Scholar Alum who is pursuing his Ph.D. in physics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and expects to finish in May 2018. His work has produced a slew of new results, including the first experiment using the world’s most powerful magnet for inelastic...

For the past 60 years, ARCS Foundation has been a source of much-needed support for young American scientists poised to make important discoveries.  This year it celebrates 60 years of advancing science in America along with a number of milestone anniversaries at both the national and chapter levels. ARCS Foundation continues...

2018 Eagle Awardee: Charles O. Holliday Jr. 

Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell

Mr. Charles O. (Chad) Holliday Jr. was elected chairman of Royal Dutch Shell in May 2015. He previously served as Chairman of the Board of Bank of America, and as Chairman and CEO of DuPont, the company from which he...

Dorothy (Dottie) Lewis Simpson (11/27/1924 – 2/12/2018) was born in Bronxville, NY, to a family that strongly believed in the value of education. Her mother, Francis, graduated from Wellesley College in 1920 and her father, Harold, from West Point in 1918. Her parents knew that their two daughters were capable of...

We are delighted that ARCS MWC member Marie P. Carr will be leading a 30-minute tour of the iconic Willard Intercontinental Hotel on Friday, April 27 starting at 4:30 p.m. Not only will she share significant historical events that have taken place at the Willard, but also personal stories in this beautiful property. Marie and...

Many students can say they have a vision for their future. For ARCS Seattle Scholar Jacob Baudin, vision is at the heart of his current work at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Jacob’s research focuses on understanding the primate retina, which is the sheet of neural tissue in the back...

Growing up in the West, Aspen Anderson loved both the outdoors and science, but not until a high school class in environmental science did she decide to follow in the footsteps of her father, Steve Anderson, a geosciences professor.  After struggling financially through her first year at Colorado School of Mines...

Last month ARCS Foundation featured some of the great work done by Roche/ARCS Scholars in the past three years; this month ARCS Foundation is pleased to share the following updates on where these scholars are now, thanks in part to their Roche/ARCS Foundation Scholar Awards.

Elizabeth Annoni, Roche/ARCS Scholar in...