News from 2016 | ARCS Foundation

President Brickner Reports on 2015-16 Results

Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2016

ARCS® Foundation begins its 2016-17 program year with a refreshed website and a reenergized focus on increasing our support of our ARCS scholars and continuing robust relationships with our academic partners. I especially congratulate and welcome our newest 2016-17 ARCS scholars who are reading our newsletter for the first time.... Read more

Good Reef! Scholar Alum-Member Focuses on Coral

Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Zoology Ph.D. candidate Cynthia Hunter’s pressing concern in 1987 was how to get to the shore to do dissertation research on coral reefs. She used a Honolulu ARCS Scholar award to buy a used car and has been on the move ever since, logging 900 scuba dives from American Samoa... Read more

ARCS Celebrates as Juno Reaches Jupiter

Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Mary Snitch (Atlanta Chapter) ensured that ARCS members had a front-row seat for the launch of the Juno spacecraft at 12:25pm EDT on August 5, 2011, at Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. About 20-30 enthusiastic members from various chapters attended, including Atlanta, Metro Washington, Northern California,... Read more

ARCS Adds University Departments

Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2016

ARCS chapters fulfill ARCS mission by supporting an ever-growing roster of higher education institutions and departments. The expansion reflects, in part, the increased number of fields of study and specialization as technology evolves. During 2015-16, the following departments of our outstanding universities were added to support future ARCS scholars:

ARCS Foundation Surpasses $100 Million in Awards To Promising Young U.S. Scientists

Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Prestigious cash award is recognized as a key element in ensuring continued robustness of the U.S. STEM pipeline

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, October 4, 2016 - ARCS® Foundation (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation, Inc.) announced that its cumulative total awards made since its founding has now exceeded $100 Million.... Read more

ARCS Foundation Surpasses $100 Million in Awards to ARCS Scholars

Posted on Thursday, September 29, 2016

ARCS Foundation issued its 2016 Annual Report at its National Board meeting held in Dallas and announced that 2015-2016 was a record-setting year on both a cumulative and annual basis. As of June 30, 2016, $100,986,274 has been awarded to 9,572 ARCS Scholars. As many ARCS Scholars receive funding... Read more

Honolulu Scholar Hunts Planets by Robot

Posted on Thursday, September 8, 2016

Benjamin “B.J.” Fulton, ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter’s 2016 Scholar of the Year, is surveying 51 nearby Sun-like stars in a search for planets smaller than Neptune using Lick Observatory’s Automated Planet Finder (APF) Telescope in California, which he operates remotely from the University of Hawai‘i’s (UH) Institute for Astronomy. “We... Read more

Alum Honored for Transformative Work in Computer Science

Posted on Thursday, September 8, 2016

Albert G. Greenberg’s (Computer Science (Ph.D.), University of Washington, 1983, Seattle Chapter) February 2016 election to the National Academy of Engineering—one of engineering’s highest awards—underscores the global importance of his groundbreaking contributions to computer science. Director of Azure Networking (Microsoft Corp.) and previously with Bell Labs and AT&T Labs Research,... Read more

Like ARCS, Bees Find Strength in Numbers

Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2016

Chelsea Cook (Colorado Chapter scholar alum; Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado – Boulder) is developing important information about crowd behaviors by studying bees. Individual bees act on available information such as temperature to optimize their colony’s conditions and protect their larvae. But Cook and her research team found... Read more

Planetary Geologist's Studies Illuminate Earth

Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Dr. Ellen Stofan (ARCS Metro Washington Chapter (MWC) Member; Chief Scientist, NASA) has steadily expanded the frontiers of U.S. science through her current role as science advisor to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden; her leadership roles at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in missions that explored Venus, Mars, Saturn's moon Titan, and Earth;... Read more

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