ARCS Phoenix Alumni Scholar, Dr. Karyn Sutton, is a PH.D graduate of Arizona State University in Mathematics. Last December, she started a tenure track position in the Math Department at the University of Louisiana. She stays in touch with her scholar award donor, Mrs. Ralph Mattueci, who sponsored her from... Read more
ARCS Foundation Phoenix NAU scholar alums are on the move around the world. The following NAU Scholar Alum updates submitted on October 9, 2012 are courtesy of Dr. James Allen, Professor and Executive Director, School of Forestry, College of Engineering, Forestry and Natural Sciences, Northern Arizona University
At the ARCS Awards Dinner attendees receive a great overview of how our scholars intend to push the frontiers of human knowledge. However, if you have the honor of attending a scholar’s dissertation defense, you understand how far they pushed the frontier. My husband and I had the... Read more
Within the last month, the first publication from my graduate research work, “Interacting Noise Sources Shape Patters of Arm Movement Variability in Three-Dimensional Space” was accepted to The Journal of Neurophysiology. Indeed, this was a great day for both me and my advisor/mentor, as we had been... Read more
Northern Arizona University doctoral student Jennifer Ginther has been appointed to Arizona Board of Regents, Gov. Jan Brewer announced last week. Ginther is a second year doctoral student in biology at NAU's Flagstaff campus,... Read more
ARCS Scholar, Michael Rutkowski, a doctoral student in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at ASU, has received a prestigious Fulbright Research Scholarship to continue his research on the compositions and ages of the stellar populations extant in distant early-type galaxies at Yonsei University in South Korea. Check out... Read more
Hello! It was so great to see everyone at the recent ARCS luncheon at ASU's University Club! I'd like to share with the ARCS community an amazing experience I had over the summer:
A little over a year ago, some of the leading researchers... Read more
ARCS Phoenix Scholar, Keith Morrison, from the Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration published a paper in the November 2013 journal of Environmental Geochemistry and Health on antibacterial clay research. The article was entitled “Mineralogical Variables that... Read more
A “behind the scenes” visit to the Mayo Clinic Hospital’s high tech training center marked the start of the Phoenix Chapter’s New Year. Michele Halyard, M.D., Vice Dean of the Mayo Medical School Arizona campus, greeted the visitors and spoke about their campaign to establish a four-year medical school