National Achievements

When you register for the All Members Conference in October, please select the tours you’d like to take so group transportation can be ready for you.

Tuesday, October 11

The Civil Rights Movement and the work of Martin Luther King Jr. are embedded in the history of the United States and...

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 systems or...

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.

Fox says astronomers expect a few big...

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 an...

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 each...

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 were...

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 Award Champion...

The Washington Research Foundation (WRF) recently donated $1.65 million to support ARCS Foundation Seattle Chapter endowments held at University of Washington (UW) and Washington State University (WSU), with the intention to fund annual ARCS scholar awards at both universities in perpetuity. The foundation’s gift will support emerging scientists at two universities...

Staci Amburgey isn't afraid of slithering serpentines— which works to her advantage since the "snake wrangler" must catch her prey in the dead of night, deep in the tropical forests of Guam.  Visits to the Pacific Island (a US territory) and ensnaring reptiles are a part of Amburgey’s postdoctoral research on the...

When you are working towards your PhD in Zoology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, you don’t need to travel to Belize for the beaches. ARCS Scholar Helen Sung goes to the Central American country for the crocodiles. Her research includes catching crocodiles to gather samples from them for...