Samantha Harker has many descriptors, including as an ARCS Scholar and PhD candidate in neuroscience at Arizona State University (ASU). She is also a recipient of two recent predoctoral fellowships – from the National Institute of Mental Health and the other from the Autism Science Foundation.
LaGrange, Georgia (December 4, 2024) – ARCS Foundation has released its 2024 Annual Report titled, “Impact Unleashed.” ARCS Foundation has greatly impacted science and technological innovation in the US over the past 65 years, and the report highlights several achievements that empower ARCS to meet its mission to propel scientific innovation... 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
Growing up under a pristine night sky far from city lights, one scholar’s fascination with the cosmos began early. Surrounded by stars and the Milky Way, Nicholas Saunders was captivated by the sheer magnitude of the universe. But his interest in exoplanets—planets orbiting stars outside our solar system—was... 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
With a punk rock metalhead background, ARCS Minnesota Scholar Daniel Mendez didn’t have the typical STEM background as he grew up surrounded by gang activity. He never planned on studying neuroscience. But after quitting his punk rock band before they toured and later learning about his... Read more
Everyone, including ARCS Foundation National leaders, knows the phrase, “A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.” The words were published in 1786 in Thomas Reid’s “Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man.”
ARCS National leaders are focusing this year on strengthening the leadership and... Read more
