For Jacqueline Avila, the path to bioengineering began with both curiosity and loss. Now a Ph.D. student in bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, she is working to develop innovative solutions for one of the world’s leading causes of death: heart disease.
Avila conducts her research in the Soft Tissue Biomechanics...
Her passion for science wasn’t exactly love at first lab. The only science career Larissa Robinson-Cooper knew of was being a doctor, and that wasn’t her dream. Still, she enjoyed Mrs. Smith’s anatomy and chemistry classes in her rural Michigan high school enough to...
Members, guests and Scholars recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Colorado ARCS Chapter. Nancy Kellogg, Chapter President, put it in numbers:
“Since the chapter’s founding in 1976 by trailblazing women, thanks to volunteers, donors, family foundations, and endowments, we have provided $7,073,500 cumulatively for 1,354 Scholar Awards. In the...
The 2026 Eagle Award Celebration, attended by members of the ARCS® Metro Washington Chapter (ARCS MWC) and other ARCS chapters, donors, Scholars, Scholar Alums, and guests, was held on May 1 at The Army and Navy Club in Washington, DC.
The Honorable Deborah Wince-Smith, Founder and CEO of the Council on...
Astronomers eagerly tracked comet 3I/ATLAS once it was identified less than a year ago as only the third observed object to visit our solar system from interstellar space. 2026 Honolulu ARCS Scholar Willem Hoogendam, a National Science Foundation fellow and fourth-year PhD student in the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's Institute...
Georgia Life Sciences recently hosted commissioners and staff from the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) across several sites in Georgia as part of the Commission’s “Biotech Across America Roadshow.” The visit’s goal was for federal leaders to hear directly from industry executives, researchers, students, and state and local partners...
As Earth Day highlights the importance of protecting ecosystems around the world, research from ARCS Scholar Alum Anthony Donahue continues to shed light on how restoring natural habitats can support struggling wildlife populations.
Donahue recently completed his master’s degree in Marine and Estuarine Sciences at San Francisco State University’s Estuary &...
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about sexual and domestic violence and supporting survivors. For Araz Majnoonian, a PhD student in public health at the joint program between the University of California, San Diego, and San Diego State University, that mission is also the focus...
ARCS National has strengthened its focus on fund development with the hiring of Monica Mizzi. National leadership, including the Philanthropy Committee, created the Development Director position “to play a significant critical part in achieving annual fundraising goals and advancing the ARCS mission,” according to the job description.
West Lafayette, Indiana (March 30, 2026) — Purdue University and the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS®) Foundation have signed a memorandum of understanding establishing Purdue as a member of the ARCS National Scholar Award Program, which provides support to domestic doctoral scholars in high-impact scientific fields vital to U.S. innovation...
