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Invite to Ignite Celebrates Membership Growth
ARCS Foundation’s Invite to Ignite challenge celebrated chapters making significant strides in growing their membership. The annual challenge recognizes the three chapters with the highest percentage increase in dues-paying members and awards funds to support future recruitment, retention, and member appreciation efforts.

This year, ARCS...

For Nicole Quintus, the prevalence of treatment-resistant depression raises an important scientific question: What if there is more to the story?

Quintus, an ARCS Scholar supported by the ARCS Minnesota Chapter, is pursuing her PhD in neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. Her research examines the endogenous opioid system, the natural...

Phil and Penny Knight have committed $1 billion—the largest gift ever given to a comprehensive public university—to the University of Oregon, with the intention of establishing a college of engineering located at the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact.

The recent announcement is the latest philanthropic gift from...

This summer, ARCS Foundation San Diego voted to add Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute to its family of educational partners. The ARCS Foundation will fund two ARCS Scholars at the Institute for the 2026-27 academic year, each receiving a $12,500 award to support their research.

“We are extremely grateful and...

LaGrange, GA (Sept. 3, 2026) — ARCS® Foundation celebrated the inaugural class of ARCS Purdue Scholars today during the ARCS National Scholar Award Celebration at Purdue Memorial Union, marking the first Scholar celebration under the ARCS National Scholar Award Program and the launch of ARCS Foundation's inaugural National Academic Partnership with...

For Stephanie Hachey, PhD, receiving an ARCS Foundation Scholar award during the final two years of her doctoral studies at the University of California, Irvine, marked the beginning of a lasting relationship with ARCS.

Today, Hachey is an assistant project scientist at UC Irvine and CEO of ImmunoTarget Therapeutics. She conducts...

For ARCS Phoenix Scholar Laura Lee, preparing for the future of space exploration means thinking about everything from the cameras traveling to Mars to the food astronauts may one day grow there.

Lee, a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Planetary Science at Northern Arizona University, focuses her research on preparing for...

ARCS Hall of Fame honoree Jessica Meir continues upward in her career with NASA . . . literally.

Meir has been the commander of the International Space Station since February 2026.  She participated days ago in a spacewalk. On August 1, Meir and flight engineer Sophie Adenot of the European Space...

"It is our pleasure to nominate Chris Simpson Brent for a National ARCS Spark Award on behalf of the members of the Scholar Relations Committee.

Chris recognized early on the importance of engaging ARCS Scholar Alumni as a distinct and valuable constituency and took the...

When most people think of parasites, they imagine something harmful. But for ARCS Atlanta Scholar Jordan Argrett, a Ph.D. candidate in Ecology at the University of Georgia's Odum School of Ecology, parasitic plants tell a much more complex story—one that could reshape how scientists understand ecosystems and conservation. 

Argrett studies the...