The Washington Post and Abbott Laboratories presented a 90-minute virtual program recently on Diversity in STEM Education. What could be more timely as ARCS takes a hard look at this topic through the lens of the new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Standing Committee? Linda Burke, DEI Committee Chair, and other... Read more
ARCS Scholar Tony Wang and a team of students may change the future of neurosurgery and cancer treatment with a device barely visible to the naked eye.
A fourth-year PhD student at Georgia Tech, Wang is studying electrical and computer engineering with a focus on creating micro-robotics... Read more
ARCS Chapter Atlanta members planning the October All Members Conference in their city had one immediate goal – to show fellow ARCS members firsthand “Southern hospitality.”
According to Debbie Liss, ARCS Chapter Atlanta member and AMC committee member, “We wanted to foster a way for members to get to know... Read more
A top-notch gymnast as a young girl, it was the athletic art of pole vaulting that captured Michelle Karabin’s attention as a teenager—and helped her become a sports champion while an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University.
“It was the best feeling ever when you clear the bar, especially during... Read more
Astronomers are excited about the James Webb Space Telescope. “The Webb in its first five days already made discoveries that people have been waiting three decades for,” says Ori Fox PhD, an Instrument Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD.
In a nail-biting race to the very end, but when the clock struck midnight on June 1, 2022, the annual ARCS Chapter Challenge came to a close with ARCS Phoenix Chapter pulling out the victory and winning top prizes in two separate categories.
The chapter received a $2,500 Scholar... Read more
The members of the Atlanta ARCS chapter know their city and have planned the best learning experiences for visitors to the All Members Conference, October 10-13, 2022.
The Civil Rights Movement and the work of Martin Luther King Jr. are embedded in the history of the United States and... Read more
As a Pilipina-American, ARCS Scholar Erica Principe Cruz knows the joy of celebrating traditional Pilipino culture—and the oppression, microaggressions, slurs, and other forms of cruelty for being “different”—a label dictated by the community around her.
As a teenager, she found happiness in learning traditional Pilipino folk dance. Whenever she was... Read more
