Growing up, University of Pittsburgh bioengineering student and ARCS Scholar Alexis Nolfi always considered herself to be a little different. And she never thought of that as a negative.
“My family members excelled in the fields of arts and music, but I was more content to be outside exploring in... Read more
If you’re going to study the uncharted depths of the world’s oceans, what better base of operations than Hawaii, which is literally in the middle of it all? It has been said that humans know more about Mars and the Moon than they know of the deep-sea ecosystems right here... Read more
It has been nearly four decades since Shannon Brownlee was an ARCS Scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1979. But the ensuing years have done nothing to diminish her passion for her industry. In 2015 Brownlee was inducted into the ARCS Alumni Hall of Fame for scientific writing... Read more
Thanks to decades of research, HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence, and people with the virus are living longer. But that increased longevity presents its own challenges, as people with HIV experience more health complications. Brooks Mitchell, a scientist at the University of Hawaii, has been studying those complications... Read more
When ARCS scholar Adam Marcinkowski says there’s nothing on Earth like the things he’s studying at the Colorado School of Mines, he means it quite literally.
Space mining, just as it implies, involves the extraction of resources from the Moon, Mars, and asteroids that would be necessary... Read more
Each year, millions of couples in the United States and around the world struggle with infertility. One ARCS Utah Scholar Alum is helping make important strides to end that struggle for many. Alex Jafek is part of a research team that has found that it may be possible to improve... Read more
The scientific world paused for a moment recently to reflect on the life of a titan, with the passing of famed physicist Stephen Hawking in March at the age of 76. Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, an ARCS Scholar Alum, received the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication last year,... Read more
Wesley T. Fuhrman is an ARCS Metro Washington Chapter Scholar Alum who is pursuing his Ph.D. in physics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and expects to finish in May 2018. His work has produced a slew of new results, including the first experiment using the world’s most powerful magnet for... Read more
Growing up in the West, Aspen Anderson loved both the outdoors and science, but not until a high school class in environmental science did she decide to follow in the footsteps of her father, Steve Anderson, a geosciences professor. After struggling financially through her first year at Colorado School of... Read more