The 2018 ARCS Foundation All Member Conference (AMC), SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION FOR THE NEXT GENERATION, was held in Washington DC April 25-28. Eighteen members of the Phoenix Chapter attended. The keynote speaker was Dr. Deborah Wince-Smith, President and CEO of The Council on Competitiveness, a coalition of CEO’s, university presidents, labor... Read more
Jennapher Lingo VanGilder, an ARCS Foundation Phoenix Scholar, was recently honored for her science advocacy efforts from the Graduate and Professional Student Association at Arizona State University. Inspired by her previous research experiences with animals, Jennapher helped cofound the Research Animal Retirement Foundation (rarfoundation.org), a non-profit organization that aims to raise... Read more
Members of the Phoenix ARCS Chapter recently toured the City of Phoenix recycle center. The tour included viewing the dumping, sorting and bundling of all recyclable materials brought to the facility. Our tour guides, Amy Clow and Diana Felix, educated the group on which items the center accepts and more... Read more
Smiling eyes, sparkle, energy, friendly, are words that can easily describe Terry Wilhoit. Terry, a long-time member of Phoenix ARCS since 1998 and the 2015 ARCS Light, is a native Arizonan, born in 1933 at the old St. Joseph’s Hospital located in downtown Phoenix. Her grandfather came to Bisbee in... Read more
Peter Firth, a 2016/2017 ARCS scholar and 3rd year PhD student, was recently recognized as one of ASU’s top student entrepreneurs when he was named as a finalist for ASU’s Innovation Open, a new technology venture acceleration competition. Firth’s company, Swift Coat, was one of four companies selected to present... Read more
ARCS Foundation Phoenix members visited the facility of Varitec Solutions and Climatec Building Technology Group (BTG) on January 9, 2017. The facility is a large, functioning office and showcase of the technologies being utilized to construct sustainable energy efficient buildings that meet today's sophisticated requirements in industries such as health... Read more
Dr. Michael Berens, Professor of Brain Tumor Research at T-Gen and husband of Phoenix Chapter member Patty Berens, gifted our members with an enlightening presentation regarding the medical breakthroughs taking place at T-Gen. T-Gen's goals are to keep at the cutting edge of technology by integrating new data systems and... Read more
Louis N. Shoettle V, ARCS ASU Scholar (2013-2016), pictured below was one of only 2 ARCS Roche Foundation Scholars to be invited to participate in the Roche Symposium, “Increasing Drug Development Success: Understanding Drug-Disease Interactions Through Quantitative Pharmacology." Louis is currently a fourth year Ph.D. student at Arizona State University. Louis and his father... Read more
