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 honor of supporting Daniel...
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 can...
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...
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 in synthetic biology decided to start a...
Thank you again for your 2012-2013 support of my dissertation research! See my photo belowin Poza Azules, Cuatro Ciénegas, México. During the summer, we (grad student Jorge Ramos and Dr. Zarraz Lee, pictured, and myself) often worked directly with land managers, like Roger Villalobos from ProNatura, to show them...
ARCS® Foundation Phoenix was honored to present the 2013-2014 Scholar Awards to these outstanding Ph.D. candidates fromArizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and University of Arizona. The ARCS Foundation Scholar Award is $7,000 per fiscal year. All scholars must apply through their universities on an...
ARCS® Foundation Phoenix was honored to present the 2012-2013 Scholar Awards to these outstanding Ph.D. candidates from Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and University of Arizona. The ARCS Foundation Scholar Award is $7,000 per year. All scholars must apply through their universities on an annual basis...
ARCS Phoenix Alumni Scholar, Dr. Kristen Ward, finished requirements for her Ph.D. in December 2012. While working towards her doctorate at the University of Arizona, Kristen was in the field of earthquake engineering, specifically in seismic structural design of steel. After graduation, Kristen accepted a position at ANSYS, a computer aided...
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 2006-2007...
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
A little over a year ago, some of the leading researchers in synthetic biology decided to start a...