Last month, the NAU site visit was held on Zoom. Four Scholars, three administrators, and the head of the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science talked with 10 Chapter members gathered at the home of Lynn Sonntag, along with several other members online. Beatrice Bock, a Woodrow Endowment and Temple... Read more
Briana Ondatje, a PhD student and neuroscience trainee at Barrow, received the 2024-2025 ARCS Scholar Award from the ARCS Foundation, Phoenix Chapter, to support her education. Briana is researching amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) under the mentorship of Barrow professor, Rita Sattler, MSc, PhD. ... Read more
Our fall was a busy time for ARCS. We had a successful scholar social that was enjoyed by both the scholars and the members. Thanks go to Sydney Fox for coordinating at PVCC. We had a fun field trip to Creighton... Read more
Congratulations to Tyler Sypherd! "Yesterday, I received notification that our paper, "Being Properly Improper" https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09920 which is coauthored with ASU Professor Lalitha Sankar (my PhD advisor) and Google researcher Richard Nock, was accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) https://icml.cc/. Our paper is about making machine... Read more
ARCS Foundation Phoenix Chapter Field Trip to Northern Arizona University March 8, 2021 How Heather Mead Joined the Fight Against COVID by Sheila Grinell Biologist Heather Mead studies the pathogen that causes Valley Fever, an often debilitating disease endemic to the US Southwest but most common in... Read more
We wanted to let you know that a Phoenix Chapter scholar, David Knoff, will be the Featured Scholar on ARCS Foundation National’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram pages. #ScholarFeatureFriday
Phoenix Chapter ARCS Scholar, David Knoff from University of Arizona Biomedical Engineering PhD program is developing novel protein-based biomaterials for advanced... Read more
After successfully defending their Ph.D.’s in Biology at Northern Arizona University, Rachel Rubin and Molly Schuman Goodier took the summer off to clear their heads and hiked 260 miles of the Colorado Trail for three weeks with their dog, Juniper.
Rachel noted...