From pesticides to psychosocial stress, the environments we experience before birth may influence our health for years to come, and Atlanta ARCS Scholar Sarina Abrishamcar is working to uncover exactly how.
At Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, Abrishamcar is investigating how prenatal environmental and psychosocial exposures affect child... Read more
ARCS Foundation was saddened to learn that one of our Hall of Fame honorees passed away unexpectedly in August 2025. David Mangelsdorf, PhD, will always be honored by ARCS for his research and contributions to science.
Mangelsdorf was an ARCS Scholar in 1985 while at the University of... Read more
David Baker was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He celebrated the one-year anniversary of that honor by giving the keynote speech at the annual fundraising event for ARCS Seattle Chapter, aptly called “A Night to Ignite Science.”
In early 2025, a sub-group of the ARCS National Scholar Relations Committee came together to plan the first networking event for ARCS Scholar Alumni at the Biomedical Engineering Society - BMES Conference, held October 8–12, 2025, in San Diego.
San Diego Chapter members Kathe Albrecht and Ingrid Benirschke-Perkins... Read more
The ARCS Metro Washington Chapter’s (ARCS MWC) 2025 Scholar Awards Reception on October 23, 2025, was a wonderful and inspiring evening, combining celebration, connection, and conviviality. Held at the beautiful National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, the event brought together 141 attendees, the largest turnout since the pandemic, including... Read more
As a major food staple throughout the Pacific Islands and around the Pacific Rim, breadfruit an essential agrosecurity crop. Its biggest advocate may well be ARCS Scholar alumna Diane Ragone, who is credited with creating and curating the largest and most diverse breadfruit conservation collection in the world. On Nov.... Read more
When it rains in cities, where does all the water go?
For Kian Bagheri, an ARCS Foundation Scholar supported by the San Diego ARCS Chapter, that question has become the focus of his doctoral research at San Diego State University and UC San Diego.
ARCS Foundation’s statistics are impressive. In sixty-five years, our women-led nonprofit has awarded $142 million in funding to more than 12,000 college and graduate students working towards degrees in science-related fields. These students represent fifty US research universities.
Our scholars and university partners have demonstrated that growth and innovation are... Read more
Arianna Bunnell is pursuing her PhD in computer science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, with an appointment at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center. Her research utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance breast imaging—specifically, mammography and ultrasound—with the goal of expanding access to early cancer detection.
Being a biologist is both a curse and a blessing, according to Dr. Anurag Agrawal, the most recent addition to the ARCS National Hall of Fame. Biology is “wildly diverse” with two million known species, but each species has rules onto itself, he says. “Ecology is complicated,” he explained... Read more
