National Achievements

ARCS National President Caron Ogg is pleased to announce that the Danaher Foundation has approved a grant for ARCS Foundation, Inc. in the amount of $100,000. This funding will support the Danaher National Impact Awards to five ARCS Chapters for implementation between January 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024. 

Danaher’s shared...

From creating art pieces about lizards as a child to now working to conserve those same environments for wildlife, Alejandro Grajal-Puche is making his mark in agriculture. Alejandro Grajal-Puche, Phoenix Chapter Scholar (2021-23), is using his PhD in Biology at Northern Arizona University to improve farming habitats with the data he...

Christian Moore, a current Atlanta Chapter ARCS Scholar, applied for an open position at the Morehouse College computer lab and it led to him making a digital tool that shows the impact of climate change. With the data visualization map he and his team created on Palantir’s website, the state of...

Noelle Brown, a second-year PhD student and Utah chapter ARCS Scholar, studies how people can best integrate ethical components into technical courses at University of Utah. Her first year led her to write a paper about how students think about an ethical problem when technical solutions make ethical consequences. The results led...

Ryan O’Hara, a Metro Washington Chapter ARCS Scholar, originally dreamt of becoming a medical doctor. Instead, he’s using a PhD in Biomedical Engineering to build models of the heart.

Ryan explains he studied Biomedical Engineering in preparation for medical school and its intensive curriculum, but his time as a research assistant...

ARCS recognizes alum for significant contributions to astronomy that enhanced our understanding of planetary science and the frontier of space.

“People would say to me, ‘I thought only smart people got into MIT.’” That comment echoed through the zoom meeting as Heidi B. Hammel, PhD, and nationally renowned astrophysicist recalled her...

ARCS Scholar Alumna 2013-14 and new Colorado Chapter member Erin Griggs is shooting for the Moon, figuratively and literally.

As a Senior Modeling and Simulation Engineer with Trusted Space, Inc., Erin designs missions to space. “I get to build space missions for all these different customers and analyze them and figure...

Octopuses are unusual creatures that can help us learn more about brains in general. They can also help advocate for federal funding of research. ARCS Scholar alum Mea Songo-Casey, who researches the octopus’ visual system, was honored as the winner of the Fund It Forward Student Video Challenge by The Science...

Last summer, the ARCS Colorado Chapter received the honor of being recognized as the Mines Foundation Partner of the Year. The award was presented by the Colorado School of Mines Foundation.

This is the first time the Mines Foundation award has been opened to an organization rather than an individual. According...

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 national...