What would the world be like without people to care and help others in their time of need?
Some situations take us beyond our circle of family and friends and into the realm of relying on strangers to provide guidance and support. This arena is where...
In 2015, Joan Evangelou, charter member of ARCS San Diego Chapter, was gearing up for a courageous fight against stage IV ovarian cancer. She had had surgery and countless rounds of chemotherapy, but after a brief remission, the cancer had grown back.
When ARCS Scholar Alumna Jaclyn Cañas-Carrell was working in the lab during her graduate years at Texas Tech University (TTU), she met the future vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion. “He asked me how many Latina toxicologists I thought there were in the nation,” she remembers. “I responded, ‘Probably hundreds.’...
ARCS Foundation celebrates more than $120 million in awards to STEM scholars.
LaGrange, GA. November 10, 2020 – ARCS Foundation, Inc. recently released its fiscal-year 2020 Annual Report— “Defining the Future of Science.” ARCS Foundation Scholar Awards are nationally recognized for their impact contributing to the strength of the...
In a world filled with scientific misinformation and sophisticated rhetoric, ARCS Scholar Alumnus Jevin West is on a mission to find the truth. In fact, he’s calling “bullsh*t” on the whole thing!
West, associate professor of information science at University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, and his colleague Carl Bergstrom, professor...
Tara McIntyre is making her voice heard on gender equality in the workplace, specifically for women working in STEM fields.
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) graduate student realized there were few women in leadership and mentoring positions within the immunology branch of biology. So she and two fellow scholars...
ARCS Foundation’s 2020 Annual Report, “Defining the Future of Science,” distinctly outlines the broad impact ARCS has had on graduate students in the STEM pipeline. The report, set to be released in November, presents the nationwide investments and achievements of the organization’s fifteen regional chapters during the 2019–20 academic year. ...
In July 2020, the Honorable Deborah Wince-Smith, CEO and President of the Council on Competitiveness (CoC) and member of ARCS Metro Washington Chapter, spoke on behalf of the CoC during a virtual hearing before legislators on the United States House Committee on the Budget.
