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
ARCS NAU Scholar Alumni, J. Judson “Jut” Wynne, recently completed his Ph.D. in the biological sciences. As a conservation biologist with the Colorado Plateau Research Station, he published “Reign of the Red Queen” in The Explorers Journal. Wynne discusses the crisis of white-nose syndrome affecting bat populations around North America and... Read more
ASU ARCS Scholar, Keith Morrison, noted that NSF recently published a highlight of his research on natural clay deposits with antibacterial properties on their website. For more information... Read more
Gray F. Moore, Ph.D. and ARCS Scholar Alum, recently accepted a faculty position at Arizona State University in Tempe. His new position as Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry represents advancement in his scientific career and research direction. Dr. Moore... Read more
Danielle Buck, a dotoral candidate in the University of Arizona's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, has shown for the first time that genetic mutations in the titin gene can cause skeletal muscle myopathy, a disease in which muscle fibers do not function properly, resulting in muscle weakness. Myopathic disease... 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 Control the Antibacterial Effectiveness of a Natural Clay Deposit.” Keith... 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:
Since my time as a PhD Student at the University of Arizona, during which time I was funded by ARCS Phoenix from 2005 to 2008, I moved onto a postdoctoral position at Washington State University. After a couple of years, I moved