Hello, I’m Sarah, and I’m a 1st year PhD student in Food Science at Oregon State University and an ARCS Scholar. When I applied to OSU, I wanted to work on a project related to food engineering and... Read more
Earning an MD/PhD is a long road with many variables contributing towards one's end goal. ARCS Illinois Scholar Bakare Awakoaiye says research is full of twists and turns, both expected and unexpected, good and bad.
Awakoaiye is in his fifth year of pursuing his... Read more
Did you know that female mosquitos are responsible for those itchy red bumps you get in the summertime? If you attended the May ARCS Forward on “He Cells, She Cells, and T Cells: How Sex Affects Immune Response,” you would’ve learned that scientific tidbit from Caroline... Read more
Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) disorder affects five to twelve percent of the general adult population and is twice as common in women. A recent graduate from UC Davis in Integrative Pathobiology and ARCS Scholar Alum Carissa Garrity studied how to regenerate cartilage and TMJ as research for... Read more
There are an estimated 31,000 individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease causing nerve cells to die. An unfortunate side effect is paralysis in the body, ranging from the inability to move limbs to not speaking. However, Tyler Singer-Clark, a Northern California Chapter... Read more
Did you know when there are massive explosions in space, such as stars shredded apart by black holes, they make tiny subatomic particles called neutrinos? ARCS Illinois Scholar Scott Mackey is researching neutrinos in his Physics PhD to learn how the universe evolves.
An ARCS membership is a long-lasting reward throughout the generations. Atlanta Chapter Members, Patricia Leake and Pace Parsons, demonstrate their ARCS loyalty as mother and daughter.
Who Is Pace Parsons?
Pace Parsons was named as ARCS’s National first “ARCS Spark” in March... Read more
Naseeha (Nas) Cardwell plans to defend her PhD thesis in Chemical Engineering at Washington State University this fall. She is the first woman in her family to be college-educated, and the first to earn a PhD. She says every opportunity along her STEM path made a difference.
ARCS Metro Washington Scholar Sheila Iyer has always been fascinated with puzzles since she was a child, and to her, studying DNA is like piecing together a complicated puzzle with great ramifications for public health. She engages in research as a way to creatively unpack the hidden secrets... Read more
The world needs to reach net zero carbon emissions by the year 2050 for the global temperature to stop increasing. According to the World Resources Institute, the UN found that current climate policies will raise the temperature by 2.8 degrees Celsius by the end of the... Read more
