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  • 2016-2017 ARCS Foundation Phoenix Scholars

    ARCS FOUNDATION PHOENIX ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER

    Honoring ARCS Foundation Phoenix Scholars

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    Supporting ARCS Scholars in Arizona

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    Supporting ARCS Scholars in Arizona

Our Mission
ARCS Foundation, Inc. advances science and technology in the United States by providing financial awards to academically outstanding United States citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medical research. The ARCS Foundation Phoenix recipient universities are Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and University of Arizona.
Our Impact
Since the founding of the first ARCS Chapter in 1958 after the launch of Sputnik, Chapters nationwide have awarded in excess of $110 million to the brightest STEM scholars in the United States. ARCS Foundation Phoenix has awarded 1,089 scholar awards for a total of $6,940,250 to Arizona's three major state universities. Click to read ARCS Foundation National's 1999 Annual Report for our organizational impact.

ARCS Foundation Phoenix ASU Scholar Published in Prestigious Journal of Applied Physics

Posted on Thursday, August 22, 2019

ARCS Phoenix Scholar Stephen Schaefer, the current second-year Douglas Scholar in Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University, had his first first-author publication, "Molecular beam epitaxy and optical properties of InAsSbBi," published in the prestigious Journal of Applied Physics (August 2019, issue 126, page 083101). The paper is part of a... Read more

Phoenix ARCS 44th Annual Awards Dinner

Posted on Friday, April 26, 2019

The Phoenix Chapter of ARCS Foundation, Inc. held their 44th Annual Awards Dinner on April, 26, 2019 at the Camby Hotel.  Thirty-seven scholars were honored and each presented with an $8,500.00 award.  As is the Chapter's tradition, each scholar gave a poster presentation during the cocktail hour.  Dinner... Read more

Dr. Kathern Plenge

Dr. Kathern Plenge Named 2019 Phoenix Chapter ARCS Light

Posted on Tuesday, March 12, 2019

"ARCS Foundation has been a wonderful part of my life after retirement" states Kathey Plenge, the Phoenix ARCS Light of 2019.  A native of Tennessee, Kathey graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 1964 and did her Neurology Residency at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona... Read more