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For most of her career as a planetary geologist, Ellen Stofan’s focus was far away – to Venus, Mars, and Saturn’s moon Titan. For twenty-five years she worked in key roles at space-related organizations, including NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was the first woman to be the John...

The names Ann Russell Miller and Sister Mary Joseph won’t soon be forgotten among members of ARCS Foundation – nor amid the nuns in the non-speaking Order of Discalced Carmelites with the Carmelite Monastery of St. Joseph in Des Plaines, Illinois.

Two very different groups were brought together by one extraordinary...

ARCS Alumnus Sanjay Srivatsan recently used his own dry-swab COVID-19 test after falling ill with flu-like symptoms. Fortunately, the test was negative – a result Sanjay believed since he and fellow scientists tweaked the molecular biology, which increased the sensitivity of the test and lowered false-negative rates.

After successfully defending his...

When the COVID-19 pandemic sent all of George Washington University Associate Professor Carly Jordan’s students’ home in 2020, she and fellow professors quickly had to create plans to teach their biology classes online and provide required research time in a lab, at home.

Using her partnership with the National Science Foundation...

Inequities in health care across cultures are something ARCS Scholar William Mundo understands very well.

As a child born in the United States to undocumented parents from Mexico, William and his family experienced disparities between their poverty-stricken Latin X community and access to health care from “big city” health clinics.

Now...

A modern-day Nancy Drew, ARCS Scholar and fifth-year graduate student at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Amanda McQuade is combining her love for crime novels and passion for neuroscience to solve the mystery of immune regulation and genetics in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease.  

McQuade is specifically studying...

LaGrange, Georgia (July 21, 2021) — ARCS® Foundation is pleased to announce Caron Ogg assumed the presidency of the organization’s National Board as of July 1, 2021.

Ogg hails from Portland, Oregon. According to Ogg, she joined the ARCS Oregon Chapter in 2005 after attending the chapter’s first-ever Scholar Awards...

Incoming ARCS National President Caron Ogg learned her work ethic and attention to detail from her father, a physician who worked every day of the year except for Christmas.  Her mother’s work schedule was the same. Her parents and all her grandparents earned college degrees, unusual in those decades. One grandmother earned...

In an annual fundraising campaign for ARCS Foundation, two area chapters received top grants for generating the most donations and the most individual participation.   

ARCS Atlanta Chapter was the dollar amount champion, raising the most funds for ARCS National during the 2020-2021 Chapter Challenge. “ARCS National enhances the visibility and...

ARCS National Board of Directors and Officers announced the new slate joining President Caron Ogg to uphold ARCS vital commitment to advance science and technology in the United States. 

Since its inception in 1958, ARCS has provided more than $120 million in academic achievement awards to more than 10,900 scholars to...