Astronomers are excited about the James Webb Space Telescope. “The Webb in its first five days already made discoveries that people have been waiting three decades for,” says Ori Fox PhD, an Instrument Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD.
In a nail-biting race to the very end, but when the clock struck midnight on June 1, 2022, the annual ARCS Chapter Challenge came to a close with ARCS Phoenix Chapter pulling out the victory and winning top prizes in two separate categories.
The chapter received a $2,500 Scholar... Read more
The members of the Atlanta ARCS chapter know their city and have planned the best learning experiences for visitors to the All Members Conference, October 10-13, 2022.
The Civil Rights Movement and the work of Martin Luther King Jr. are embedded in the history of the United States and... Read more
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.... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
