The Council on Competitiveness has called on President Trump and Members of Congress to back A Renewed Call to Action to ignite a new Golden Age of American innovation. (ARCS Foundation is a member of the Council; more on how ARCS Stands with Science.)
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
On January 16, members of the Phoenix ARCS Chapter watched neurosurgeon Nader Sanai remove a tumor from a 71-year-old woman’s brain (with her prior permission, of course) ever so delicately over the course of an hour. We could see what the surgeon saw--we were able to look through the... Read more
Sharon Ponce, newly named Phoenix ARCS Light, has been a member of the Chapter since 2017. She joined after attending a few events at the invitation of Adele Ponce, her daughter-in-law. She has served as the Website Administrator for most of her time with the Chapter and has been instrumental... Read more
Honolulu ARCS Scholar Lindsay Young is vice president for research for the National Geographic Society's Pristine Seas Program. She heads an eight-member research team that works with conservationists, filmmakers, and communication and policy experts to help protect the world’s oceans. Young is also an affiliate graduate faculty member... Read more
Congratulations to the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's Dr. Tomoaki Miura, inducted as an American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Fellow in September. Dr. Miura is professor and chair of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, one of five College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources departments supported with Honolulu... Read more
Honolulu ARCS Scholar Katie C.Y. Lee has demonstrated the importance of an energy regulating enzyme in heart health. “We discovered that your heart can't really be healthy without PKM2,” she says.
Building on research that Pyruvate kinase M2 plays a key role in glucose metabolism and energy expenditure, Katie demonstrated... Read more
This year, ARCS National made the Chapter Challenge competitive by offering all fifteen chapters four chances to win. The challenge will have first—and second-place winners for each grant.
All fifteen of ARCS Foundation’s regional chapters are challenged each year by ARCS National to raise funds for... Read more
Historically, #GivingTuesday is the last Tuesday of November. It’s a global movement meant to inspire radical generosity worldwide, and ARCS Foundation felt that generosity this year. We started our #GivingTuesday campaign at the end of October, and by the end of 2023, we had exceeded our... Read more
