As my two-year term ends, I want to thank the National Board, committee chairs, and committee members for the many ways they devoted their time and talent to ARCS Foundation. I am proud of the work that our chapters’ leaders and National Board members have accomplished to...
Summer reading should include science and technology topics. Here are a few suggestions, but we encourage you to share your recommendations with the larger ARCS community. Tell us the title, author, and brief input on why you suggest it. Email your recommendation to newsletter@arcsfoundation.org
Virtual and augmented reality are more than tools for a fun video game experience. This revolutionary technology is now used for training in medical fields and workforces. But there’s only one problem: about fifty percent of the world’s population gets motion sickness. Women who use VR are more prone to motion...
Judee Sharon scholar, scientist, entrepreneur – is leading the charge on cancer detection through a new method of biocomputing. It is called TRUMPET (Transcriptional RNA Universal Multi-Purpose gate platform). TRUMPET combines the simplicity and robustness of in vitro biocomputing methods and...
Butterflies are more beautiful and unique than we know. Sofia Sheikh, an ARCS Illinois Scholar, knows this firsthand and it’s why she studies them for her PhD in ecology and evolution.
At the University of Chicago, Sheikh performs genetic manipulations on butterflies as she hunts for the reasoning behind gene co-option...
If you are planting your vegetable garden this month, your goal may be enough tomatoes for a yummy sauce, or extra beans to freeze. But the scientists at Inari, based in Massachusetts, think more globally about seeds. ARCS Scholar alumna Kali Brandt, a scientist in plant cell biology at Inari...
Advances in science are personal to ARCS member Linda Burke. She has learned firsthand since second grade that unless a hearing problem is correctly identified, you can’t fix it. But years later, when you can finally hear on a more normal level, medical and technological advances are “pretty amazing.”
Saliva is the key to digestion. It moistens the mouth and protects the gums and teeth. Perhaps the most interesting thing it does, however, is contain the essence of a person’s genetics. Paul Maier, a population geneticist at FamilyTreeDNA and former ARCS San Diego Scholar, says a small sample of saliva...
Aniruddha Deshpande, a second-year ARCS Atlanta Scholar, is a student of epidemiology at Emory University working to discover the health impacts of climate change. As the Earth gets warmer, it’s more than melting glaciers and untamed wildfires. It’s also about the future of our society’s health. Ani is building quantitative models...
“If you can’t smell anything, that’s the best” is a saying that circulates the atmospheric science community. Coty Jen, ARCS Minnesota Chapter Scholar Alumni and current professor at Carnegie Mellon University, joined this community once she chose to use her degrees in chemical and mechanical engineering to study atmospheric particles. What...
