Earning an MD/PhD is a long road with many variables contributing towards one's end goal. ARCS Illinois Scholar Bakare Awakoaiye says research is full of twists and turns, both expected and unexpected, good and bad.
Awakoaiye is in his fifth year of pursuing his MD/PhD in Microbiology and Immunology at Northwestern...
Hello, I’m Sarah, and I’m a 1st year PhD student in Food Science at Oregon State University and an ARCS Scholar. When I applied to OSU, I wanted to work on a project related to food engineering and agricultural sustainability. After admission, I found...
When do you listen to podcasts? On long drives, during your daily walk or treadmill session, slowing down in the evening, or relaxing at the beach? Relax this summer and learn something new with these science podcast recommendations.
1. June is "Ocean Month." The National Ocean and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) has...
An ARCS membership is a long-lasting reward throughout the generations. Atlanta Chapter Members, Patricia Leake and Pace Parsons, demonstrate their ARCS loyalty as mother and daughter.
Who Is Pace Parsons?
Pace Parsons was named as ARCS’s National first “ARCS Spark” in March 2024. ARCS Spark is a new initiative to...
Did you know when there are massive explosions in space, such as stars shredded apart by black holes, they make tiny subatomic particles called neutrinos? ARCS Illinois Scholar Scott Mackey is researching neutrinos in his Physics PhD to learn how the universe evolves.
There are an estimated 31,000 individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease causing nerve cells to die. An unfortunate side effect is paralysis in the body, ranging from the inability to move limbs to not speaking. However, Tyler Singer-Clark, a Northern California Chapter Scholar at UC Davis, works to give...
Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) disorder affects five to twelve percent of the general adult population and is twice as common in women. A recent graduate from UC Davis in Integrative Pathobiology and ARCS Scholar Alum Carissa Garrity studied how to regenerate cartilage and TMJ as research for her PhD.
The world needs to reach net zero carbon emissions by the year 2050 for the global temperature to stop increasing. According to the World Resources Institute, the UN found that current climate policies will raise the temperature by 2.8 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. However, Northern California...
ARCS Metro Washington Scholar Sheila Iyer has always been fascinated with puzzles since she was a child, and to her, studying DNA is like piecing together a complicated puzzle with great ramifications for public health. She engages in research as a way to creatively unpack the hidden secrets of the human...
What happens above ground in agroecosystem management impacts what transpires below ground. ARCS Scholar Suzanne Lipton is focusing her PhD research on agroecology, which she explains is “how you could make agricultural systems more sustainable by relying on ecological processes rather than industrializing them.” Lipton is a Northern California Chapter...
