With global food demand expected to rise by seventy percent by 2050, researchers across the world are searching for innovative ways to increase food production. For Phoenix ARCS Scholar Xaimarie Hernandez Cruz, the answer lies in empowering small and novice farmers through better access to data-driven decision-making tools.
When Cade Jobe thinks about the impact of wildfire smoke, he starts with a simple image: a map of the western United States in August—and it’s on fire.
"Wildfire smoke is impacting lots of agricultural systems, especially in the West and Northwest," Jobe said. "My focus is on beer and... Read more
19 University of Hawai‘i at Manoa PhD students in botany, engineering and medicine were named 2025 Honolulu ARCS Scholars of the Year at the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Award Banquet held May 5. Allie Hall, who uses fungi to improve survival of endangered nānū trees, Ty Shitanaka who explores... 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.
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
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
