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The “groundbreaking” research of ARCS Scholar Alumna Dr. Barbara Bekins has caught the eye of several prestigious organizations, most recently the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

In February 2020, Bekins was elected as a Fellow into NAE, one of the highest professional honors that a scientist can receive.

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ARCS Foundation member and infectious disease expert Dr. Rhea Coler has joined in the global effort to find a vaccine for COVID-19. An investigator in the National Institutes of Health’s Infectious Disease Clinical Research Consortium (IDCRC), she and a team of researchers are responsible for blood processing and clinical immunology assays...

A $500,000 gift from a woman who never lost her love of learning will generate ARCS Scholar Awards in perpetuity in oceanography and other fields at University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter established the George Orton Elmore and Mona Marie Elmore Scholarship endowment at the University of...

Highest honor for volunteer work given annually to a member from each ARCS Foundation chapter

LaGrange, Georgia (July 2, 2020) — ARCS^® Foundation is pleased to announce that it is honoring 15 ARCS volunteers for their work in promoting science, engineering, and medical research. The annual ARCS Light Award is...

Sanjay Srivatsan is a fourth-year ARCS Scholar in the MD/PhD Genome Sciences graduate program at University of Washington. His PhD research work has focused primarily on developing new sequencing technologies to uncover how individual cells behave in both development and disease. One such technology—a high-throughput drug-screening platform using DNA sequencing—is...

Alexandra (Sasha) Perebikovsky is an ARCS Scholar Alumna who received her PhD in Chemical and Materials Physics at University of California, Irvine in May 2020. She and two other colleagues have developed a low-cost ventilator that can be produced for $100 or less—that’s tens of thousands of dollars less than the...

Melanie MacMullan is a third-year ARCS Scholar pursuing her PhD in Chemical Engineering at University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering. Her research focuses on developing a better understanding of the immune system by studying protein interactions in immune cells. In a unique arrangement with USC, Melanie has joined a...

For Dr. Jeff Dlott, a career in scientific discovery started in a peach field thirty years ago.  Then a third-year ARCS Scholar and PhD candidate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California Berkeley, Dlott spent a summer working side by side with farmers...

ARCS Scholar Alexandra (“Alex”) McInturf has shared the same water with many large carnivorous shark species. A PhD candidate in Animal Behavior at University of California Davis, Alex wants to help reverse the cultural image of sharks as “mindless man-eaters” and instead inspire curiosity about their diverse roles in the...

LaGrange, GA—May 12, 2020. ARCS® Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of University of Oregon’s Department of Human Physiology to its approved departments for funding.

During ARCS January 2020 National Board Meeting in Tempe, Arizona, the National University Relations Committee approved adding this cutting-edge graduate program to the departments already...