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With global food demand expected to rise by seventy percent by 2050, researchers across the world are searching for innovative ways to increase food production. For Phoenix ARCS Scholar  Xaimarie Hernandez Cruz, the answer lies in empowering small and novice farmers through better access to data-driven decision-making tools.

"My research is...

ARCS Member Patricia Sparrell grew up in a small town.  

“There were more cows than people in the village and the surrounding area of Homer, New York,” Sparrell says.

She graduated from high school as a strong student in math and science. Since she graduated in the 1970s, she was...

Christina Veziris is a doctoral student in the joint clinical psychology program at San Diego State University and UC San Diego, and she is supported by the San Diego ARCS Chapter.

Veziris’s research focuses on prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and the disruptions it causes in development.

“My research has two parts...

Hannah Cook, a third-year PhD student in the Entomology Department at Washington State University, is on a mission to uncover the hidden diversity of bees. Supported by the Seattle ARCS Chapter, Cook’s research focuses on the vast array of bee species beyond the well-known honeybee, aiming to improve taxonomic methods and...

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the best-known solution to mitigating the impacts of climate change. Climate geoengineering may be needed to avoid the most catastrophic impacts. That is the research focus of ARCS Scholar Jessica Wan at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego.

Geoengineering was originally...

University of California at Merced, the most recent university approved for ARCS Foundation collaboration, has been officially designated an R1 University by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

The "R1" classification, also known as "Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity," is the highest tier of research universities in the...

On January 16, members of the Phoenix ARCS Chapter watched neurosurgeon Nader Sanai remove a tumor from a 71-year-old woman’s brain (with her prior permission, of course) ever so delicately over the course of an hour. We could see what the surgeon saw--we were able to look through the operating microscope...

Emma Glass’s parents both work in the STEM field, with her father being a doctor and her mother having a PhD in microbiology. She was surrounded by science from a very early age, but her preferred area of science leaned toward nature as a child.

Glass, a Metro Washington ARCS Scholar...

Anusha Bishop is a Northern California ARCS Scholar pursuing her PhD in Environmental Science Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. She is passionate about studying genetic diversity to see how it might inform the scientific community about the challenges that California species face. Her research is already making an impact by...

Sleep, and how it relates to your health, is what ARCS Scholar Alum Noah Milman studies in the Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience program at Oregon Health and Science University. 

His research, using rodent species, focuses on the relationship between early life, sleep and social behavior.

“In humans, babies sleep more than...