Steel production accounts for eight-to-nine percent of all CO² emissions. ARCS Alumnus Daniel Bregante hopes to mitigate those emissions by decarbonizing the steel industry through groundbreaking research at Boston Metal.
Bregante began his work as a Research and Development (R&D) scientist at the Boston Metal company in June 2021,... Read more
A summer backpack trip through the lush forests of the Great Smoky Mountains made such a profound impact on ARCS Scholar Connor Crouch that he changed his career course.
A then-undergraduate studying Journalism at the University of Missouri, Crouch witnessed widespread mortality of the Fraser fir resulting from an encroaching... Read more
An ARCS Member is leading NSF’s Polar Programs, overseeing a wide range of research projects, including melting ice sheets that confirm a warming planet. The polar regions hold a vast array of science – even inside the ice itself.
The two poles of Earth – the Arctic and Antarctica –... Read more
Significant and extreme weather events linked to global warming in 2021 took climate scientists, like ARCS Alumnus Daniel Swain, by surprise—not because they occurred, but because scientists predicted it would be decades before the US would see those devastating effects.
With a click of a button, ARCS Scholar Nick Heller is helping radiologists identify and analyze kidney tumors within a patient’s body.
Heller is a PhD student conducting computer science research at University of Minnesota. His research focuses on using computer technology to enhance medical imaging, like a CT... Read more
To say ARCS Scholar Samuel Buckner is passionate about aerospace engineering is an understatement.
As a boy, he was fascinated by space. But his professional pursuit grew exponentially when private companies, such as SpaceX and Blue Origin, began building their own vehicles with the intent of strengthening America’s... Read more
The tenth campus, and newest of the University of California system, UC Merced has proven itself as a leading STEM research university. Founded in 2005, the campus was unanimously approved by the ARCS Foundation Board of Directors for scholar award funding. Three departments were approved by ARCS –... Read more
A bicycle country road tour in France was an opportunity for ARCS member Sheila Grinell to practice her French, a language learned decades earlier while she taught in Toulon on a Fulbright grant. More than that, the trip and the 125 miles she pedaled in five days were about “celebrating... Read more
Becoming a mother in the mid-1980’s was an exciting time for Dr. Nancy Haigwood. But the time also highlighted a huge health crisis—infants born HIV positive from mothers who knowingly or unknowingly carried the virus.
