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... Read more
Professor Donald Falk became interested in fire “because I saw fire as a big, powerful, scary process. If we get that wrong, we end up with a lot of degraded habitats,” he explains. His career started with studying rare plant species but has evolved to a... Read more
Christian Moore, a current Atlanta Chapter ARCS Scholar, applied for an open position at the Morehouse College computer lab and it led to him making a digital tool that shows the impact of climate change. With the data visualization map he and his team created on Palantir’s website,... Read more
From creating art pieces about lizards as a child to now working to conserve those same environments for wildlife, Alejandro Grajal-Puche is making his mark in agriculture. Alejandro Grajal-Puche, Phoenix Chapter Scholar (2021-23), is using his PhD in Biology at Northern Arizona University to improve farming habitats with... Read more
ARCS National President Caron Ogg is pleased to announce that the Danaher Foundation has approved a grant for ARCS Foundation, Inc. in the amount of $100,000. This funding will support the Danaher National Impact Awards to five ARCS Chapters for implementation between January 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024.
Julie Drinkward has been an ARCS Oregon member for 16 years. She and her husband Wayne have funded multiple scholar awards and hosted events at their home. Julie has served on the Board and several committees and has been honored with the chapter’s ARCS Light award. But Julie says that... Read more
Danaher Investment Aids ARCS in Building a Diverse STEM-Ready Workforce
LaGrange, GA: The Danaher Foundation, a science and technology family of companies that drive meaningful innovation, recently awarded Achievement Rewards for Collegiate Scientists Foundation® Inc. with a $100,000 grant. This award will fund five new Danaher National Impact... Read more
ARCS Scholar Alumna 2013-14 and new Colorado Chapter member Erin Griggs is shooting for the Moon, figuratively and literally.
As a Senior Modeling and Simulation Engineer with Trusted Space, Inc., Erin designs missions to space. “I get to build space missions for all these different customers and analyze them and... Read more
ARCS recognizes alum for significant contributions to astronomy that enhanced our understanding of planetary science and the frontier of space.
“People would say to me, ‘I thought only smart people got into MIT.’” That comment echoed through the zoom meeting as Heidi B. Hammel, PhD, and nationally renowned astrophysicist recalled... Read more
Ryan O’Hara, a Metro Washington Chapter ARCS Scholar, originally dreamt of becoming a medical doctor. Instead, he’s using a PhD in Biomedical Engineering to build models of the heart.
Ryan explains he studied Biomedical Engineering in preparation for medical school and its intensive curriculum, but his time as a research... Read more
