National Achievements

When it comes to matters of the heart, ARCS Scholar Alumnus Michael Davis is one of the top biomedical engineers in the world.

His revolutionary research, which focuses on human tissue engineering inside the heart, has been recognized in March 2020 by the American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE).

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High school students from the Achievement Institute of Scientific Studies (AISS) in Orange County, California, amplified their passion for STEM studies after virtually attending ARCS Foundation National’s ARCS Scholar COVID-19 Panel in June 2020. The online panel included four outstanding ARCS Scholars and Scholar Alums who each described how they are...

Pittsburgh Chapter founding member Cecile Springer has always had a passion for service.  

Her spunk, tenacity, and zeal for volunteerism and charitable contributions was recognized when she was presented with the Special Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals Western Pennsylvania Chapter. This award recognizes individuals who serve as...

How and when US public schools open their doors may depend on the research work of ARCS Scholar Alumnus Fred Streitz, a liaison between the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Analytics Taskforce. The taskforce was created to aid the federal government’s COVID-19...

According to climate experts, the western United States could be heading into a “mega-drought.” ARCS Scholar Alumnus Daniel Swain is using his research to determine when it will happen—and why.

As a well-known climate scientist and research fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Swain is recognized among fellow...

A $500,000 gift from a woman who never lost her love of learning will generate ARCS Scholar Awards in perpetuity in oceanography and other fields at University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter established the George Orton Elmore and Mona Marie Elmore Scholarship endowment at the University of...

ARCS Foundation member and infectious disease expert Dr. Rhea Coler has joined in the global effort to find a vaccine for COVID-19. An investigator in the National Institutes of Health’s Infectious Disease Clinical Research Consortium (IDCRC), she and a team of researchers are responsible for blood processing and clinical immunology assays...

The “groundbreaking” research of ARCS Scholar Alumna Dr. Barbara Bekins has caught the eye of several prestigious organizations, most recently the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

In February 2020, Bekins was elected as a Fellow into NAE, one of the highest professional honors that a scientist can receive.

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For Dr. Jeff Dlott, a career in scientific discovery started in a peach field thirty years ago.  Then a third-year ARCS Scholar and PhD candidate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California Berkeley, Dlott spent a summer working side by side with farmers...

ARCS Scholar Alexandra (“Alex”) McInturf has shared the same water with many large carnivorous shark species. A PhD candidate in Animal Behavior at University of California Davis, Alex wants to help reverse the cultural image of sharks as “mindless man-eaters” and instead inspire curiosity about their diverse roles in the...