With a puff of smoke and a flash of fire from its tail, a Space Shuttle blasts off from its Florida launch pad as the Legacy of Florence Malouf and ARCS Foundation is illustrated in less than four minutes. The video, entitled “From Sputnik to Endeavor”, which premiered at ARCS... Read more
A lifelong love of science is one of the things driving Sarah Tucker’s vital involvement as a pillar of the next ARCS Foundation generation. As an example, when she ascended to president of the ARCS Illinois chapter, Tucker took a look at membership levels and saw there was work to... Read more
ARCS Scholar Alum Jed Brubaker is rapidly making a name for himself in the exploration of solutions to a problem that didn’t even exist a generation ago. As a founding member of the new Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Brubaker and his team... Read more
Dan Miller’s first interest in neuroscience came in high school after he read a book about theories of consciousness by a prominent neuropsychologist.
“I was fascinated that there were so many different psychological, neural, and philosophical approaches for explaining how the brain works, and was particularly drawn to theories that... Read more
ARCS® Foundation (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation, Inc.) has released its fiscal year 2018 Annual Report. The report presents the nationwide public report of investments and achievements by 15 regional ARCS chapters during the 2017-18 academic year.
Among the key facts and accomplishments noted in the report are:
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
An honorary emeritus member of ARCS San Diego, Betty Simm was one of the organization’s founders and in the past six decades has seen the amazing growth and impact of ARCS Foundation nation-wide.
“ARCS is the future based on the building blocks of its past,” she said recently, reflecting on... Read more
ARCS® Foundation (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation, Inc.) has released its fiscal year 2018 Annual Report. The report presents the nationwide public report of investments and achievements by 15 regional ARCS chapters during the 2017-18 academic year.
Among the key facts and accomplishments noted in the report... Read more
Putting science into practice is a great way to get more young people interested in STEM. This idea was demonstrated recently, when more than two dozen Girl Scouts from central Maryland participated in a competition to design and build a mini roller coaster. The troops met at the Homewood campus... Read more
