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Connecting and Collaborating to Protect Large, Carbon-Storing Trees

David Mildrexler and Logan Berner became friends as ARCS Scholars when they were both working toward doctoral degrees in Oregon State University’s College of Forestry. Now, despite living a thousand miles apart, the two ARCS Alumni have collaborated on research related to...

Low-elevation atoll islands are literally ground zero for considering impacts of climate change. So coastal geologist Haunani Kane developed a model to explain 5,000 years of geological processes in the Marshall Islands and assess the risk from future sea level rise to the sprawling Pacific island chain. Kane integrated fossil data...

Plant conservation champion Becky Barak tells her story.

Plants have been part of my story for as long as I’ve been a researcher, and I’ve spent the past 12 years (at least!) trying to uncover theirs. I was an ARCS Scholar as a master’s student in Northwestern University’s department of...

Andrew was worried. It was 2 a.m., and a storm had just cut electricity to the home he shared with his parents and brother, Henry, in Export, Pennsylvania.

Both young men are affected by spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a progressive neuromuscular disease similar to Stephen Hawking’s. Electricity powers not only their...

ARCS Scholar Lizzie Kumar has become a scientific sleuth at catching errors in artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.

Studying under Dr. Suresh Venkatasubramanian, a top computer scientist and leader in the AI field, the University of Utah PhD candidate is conducting research on new methods that make it possible for machines...

A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and patient race/ethnicity is still largely unaccounted for in the data of many states and cities across the nation.

ARCS Scholar Katie Labgold says Atlanta is no different. Labgold, an Emory University PhD student in epidemiology, is currently immersed in a study that proposes a...

Astronomer is recognized for his leadership and vision in the development of the Large Millimeter Telescope which was instrumental in capturing the first image of a black hole and confirmed Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.

LaGrange, GA. February 9, 2021 – At the January National Board Meeting. ARCS® Foundation Inc. announced...

Radio Astronomer F. Peter Schloerb, PhD, has earned his place in ARCS Foundation history. In February 2021, Dr. Schloerb became the twelfth member of ARCS Alumni Hall of Fame. “I am excited and humbled by this nomination,” Dr. Schloerb says. “I feel very proud to have been recognized in...

ARCS Member Cecelia (“Cece”) Foxley’s face is now immortalized in a mural alongside a building in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. Foxley was one of 268 women honored as Utah’s most influential women—past and present. 

The 5,000-square-foot, five-story art piece titled “Utah Women 2020” was created by artist Jann Haworth, known...

A winter hike through the icy Canadian mountains provided Dr. Jesse Salk the clarity he needed to crack the code in catching mutating cancer cells in their earliest stages. According to Salk, those frigid hikes gave him the space and time he needed to ponder ideas and theories.

And it worked. After...