Hannah Cook, a third-year PhD student in the Entomology Department at Washington State University, is on a mission to uncover the hidden diversity of bees. Supported by the Seattle ARCS Chapter, Cook’s research focuses on the vast array of bee species beyond the well-known honeybee, aiming to improve taxonomic methods... Read more
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the best-known solution to mitigating the impacts of climate change. Climate geoengineering may be needed to avoid the most catastrophic impacts. That is the research focus of ARCS Scholar Jessica Wan at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego.
University of California at Merced, the most recent university approved for ARCS Foundation collaboration, has been officially designated an R1 University by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
The "R1" classification, also known as "Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity," is the highest tier of research universities... Read more
Christina Veziris is a doctoral student in the joint clinical psychology program at San Diego State University and UC San Diego, and she is supported by the San Diego ARCS Chapter.
Veziris’s research focuses on prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and the disruptions it causes in development.
Sleep, and how it relates to your health, is what ARCS Scholar Alum Noah Milman studies in the Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience program at Oregon Health and Science University.
His research, using rodent species, focuses on the relationship between early life, sleep and social behavior.
Anusha Bishop is a Northern California ARCS Scholar pursuing her PhD in Environmental Science Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. She is passionate about studying genetic diversity to see how it might inform the scientific community about the challenges that California species face. Her research is already making an impact... Read more
Emma Glass’s parents both work in the STEM field, with her father being a doctor and her mother having a PhD in microbiology. She was surrounded by science from a very early age, but her preferred area of science leaned toward nature as a child.
On January 16, members of the Phoenix ARCS Chapter watched neurosurgeon Nader Sanai remove a tumor from a 71-year-old woman’s brain (with her prior permission, of course) ever so delicately over the course of an hour. We could see what the surgeon saw--we were able to look through the... Read more
Courtney Victor graduated with her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from Emory University in December 2024. The Atlanta ARCS Scholar is now a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University. During her graduate program, Victor’s research focused on understanding water quality's impact on children's health in low-resource settings.
February is National Heart Month, and one ARCS Scholar is researching a heart condition to develop a novel therapy to mitigate the risks.
Emily Cheung is a Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering at George Washington University, supported by the ARCS Metro Washington chapter. She grew up fascinated with science and... Read more
