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In 2015, Joan Evangelou, charter member of ARCS San Diego Chapter, was gearing up for a courageous fight against stage IV ovarian cancer. She had had surgery and countless rounds of chemotherapy, but after a brief remission, the cancer had grown back.

So she decided it was time to try a...

When ARCS Scholar Alumna Jaclyn Cañas-Carrell was working in the lab during her graduate years at Texas Tech University (TTU), she met the future vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion. “He asked me how many Latina toxicologists I thought there were in the nation,” she remembers. “I responded, ‘Probably hundreds.’...

ARCS Foundation celebrates more than $120 million in awards to STEM scholars.

LaGrange, GA.  November 10, 2020 – ARCS Foundation, Inc. recently released its fiscal-year 2020 Annual Report— “Defining the Future of Science.” ARCS Foundation Scholar Awards are nationally recognized for their impact contributing to the strength of the...

The internet of the future is here, opening a world of possibilities in communication, innovation, and technology.

On July 23, 2020, the US Department of Energy (DOE) unveiled a strategy at The University of Chicago to build a national quantum internet, known as the “unhackable” network. This initiative not...

Tara McIntyre is making her voice heard on gender equality in the workplace, specifically for women working in STEM fields.

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) graduate student realized there were few women in leadership and mentoring positions within the immunology branch of biology. So she and two fellow scholars...

In a world filled with scientific misinformation and sophisticated rhetoric, ARCS Scholar Alumnus Jevin West is on a mission to find the truth. In fact, he’s calling “bullsh*t” on the whole thing!

West, associate professor of information science at University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, and his colleague Carl Bergstrom, professor...

ARCS Foundation’s 2020 Annual Report, “Defining the Future of Science,” distinctly outlines the broad impact ARCS has had on graduate students in the STEM pipeline. The report, set to be released in November, presents the nationwide investments and achievements of the organization’s fifteen regional chapters during the 2019–20 academic year. ...

ARCS Scholar Kendra Marr is hoping to stop prostate cancer in its tracks.  

After two long years of hard work and determination, Marr received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award of almost $175,000 through the National Cancer Institute. Now Marr’s work into...

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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ARCS member Marilyn Schutz’s entrepreneurial spirit, support of female empowerment, and long-lasting success in the education and technology sectors led her to be named one of FOLIO: magazine’s 2020 Top Women in Media.

According to the magazine, Schutz was specifically chosen for her “persistence, perspicacity, and ingenuity in the...