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The Washington Research Foundation (WRF) recently donated $1.65 million to support ARCS Foundation Seattle Chapter endowments held at University of Washington (UW) and Washington State University (WSU), with the intention to fund annual ARCS scholar awards at both universities in perpetuity. The foundation’s gift will support emerging scientists at two universities...

Nicholas Haynes embraces his study and practice of Industrial-Organizational Psychology. “I love how it combines math, science, and technology, while applying it to the work context – where most of us spend a large portion of our lives,” he explains.

The term “workaholism” covers a range of definitions. In fact...

Staci Amburgey isn't afraid of slithering serpentines— which works to her advantage since the "snake wrangler" must catch her prey in the dead of night, deep in the tropical forests of Guam.  Visits to the Pacific Island (a US territory) and ensnaring reptiles are a part of Amburgey’s postdoctoral research on the...

When you are working towards your PhD in Zoology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, you don’t need to travel to Belize for the beaches. ARCS Scholar Helen Sung goes to the Central American country for the crocodiles. Her research includes catching crocodiles to gather samples from them for...

As a Pilipina-American, ARCS Scholar Erica Principe Cruz knows the joy of celebrating traditional Pilipino culture—and the oppression, microaggressions, slurs, and other forms of cruelty for being “different”—a label dictated by the community around her.

As a teenager, she found happiness in learning traditional Pilipino folk dance. Whenever she was marginalized...

Paul Brown is co-founder and CEO of Inspire Brands, a multi-brand restaurant company. No doubt you know and have eaten at an Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Dunkin Donuts, Jimmy John’s, or a SONIC Drive-In restaurant. The company’s 2020 global sales of $27 billion prove its popularity. Brown will share a message of...

The nervousness of defending his dissertation was nothing compared to the product pitch ARCS Alumnus Jacob Sendowski and his wife Michelle made to the formidable panel of entrepreneurs on the TV show “Shark Tank.”

Almost two years after creating, producing, outsourcing, and selling silicone, cup-sized trays for freezing and storing soup...

Not many people can point to the one decision that altered the direction of their life, but Dr. Peter Kilpatrick can - and it was winning the ARCS Scholar award in 1974. 

“The ARCS scholarship made a difference in my education and in my life,” Kilpatrick says. 

As an undergraduate, Kilpatrick...

As pandemic mask requirements were lifted several months ago, three ARCS Chapter Oregon members invited their first-year scholars to lunch, to finally meet them in person. None of them expected the surprise that came next. The two scholars. both pursuing their PhDs at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), had...

This year the Phoenix chapter is proud and honored to congratulate Dawn Carson Senger as our 2022 ARCS Light recipient. We are most grateful for her loyal service, energy, and ardent commitment to ARCS!

 “My mother was an ARCS member in Phoenix and LA. She loved this organization so much and...