National Achievements

When the COVID-19 pandemic sent all of George Washington University Associate Professor Carly Jordan’s students’ home in 2020, she and fellow professors quickly had to create plans to teach their biology classes online and provide required research time in a lab, at home.

Using her partnership with the National Science Foundation...

For most of her career as a planetary geologist, Ellen Stofan’s focus was far away – to Venus, Mars, and Saturn’s moon Titan. For twenty-five years she worked in key roles at space-related organizations, including NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was the first woman to be the John...

ARCS Alumnus Sanjay Srivatsan recently used his own dry-swab COVID-19 test after falling ill with flu-like symptoms. Fortunately, the test was negative – a result Sanjay believed since he and fellow scientists tweaked the molecular biology, which increased the sensitivity of the test and lowered false-negative rates.

After successfully defending his...

The names Ann Russell Miller and Sister Mary Joseph won’t soon be forgotten among members of ARCS Foundation – nor amid the nuns in the non-speaking Order of Discalced Carmelites with the Carmelite Monastery of St. Joseph in Des Plaines, Illinois.

Two very different groups were brought together by one extraordinary...

Inequities in health care across cultures are something ARCS Scholar William Mundo understands very well.

As a child born in the United States to undocumented parents from Mexico, William and his family experienced disparities between their poverty-stricken Latin X community and access to health care from “big city” health clinics.

Now...

A modern-day Nancy Drew, ARCS Scholar and fifth-year graduate student at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Amanda McQuade is combining her love for crime novels and passion for neuroscience to solve the mystery of immune regulation and genetics in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease.  

McQuade is specifically studying...

In an annual fundraising campaign for ARCS Foundation, two area chapters received top grants for generating the most donations and the most individual participation.   

ARCS Atlanta Chapter was the dollar amount champion, raising the most funds for ARCS National during the 2020-2021 Chapter Challenge. “ARCS National enhances the visibility and...

ARCS National Board of Directors and Officers announced the new slate joining President Caron Ogg to uphold ARCS vital commitment to advance science and technology in the United States. 

Since its inception in 1958, ARCS has provided more than $120 million in academic achievement awards to more than 10,900 scholars to...

Incoming ARCS National President Caron Ogg learned her work ethic and attention to detail from her father, a physician who worked every day of the year except for Christmas.  Her mother’s work schedule was the same. Her parents and all her grandparents earned college degrees, unusual in those decades. One grandmother earned...

Dear ARCS Friends,

As my two-year term as President of ARCS Foundation draws to a close, I want to take a moment to share some of my observations from these years and to thank you for the many ways that each of you has contributed to advancing science in America. I...