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 says, "I remain thankful for the early support I received...
ARCS Foundation Phoenix Scholar, Mac Gifford, was recently honored with a prestigious research fellowship from the US
Environmental Protection Agency called the EPA STAR. Mac noted that the Fellowship and ARCS Scholar Award enable him to pursue research recently featured in ASU's online newspaper available at http://fullcircle.asu.edu/2014/09/10972/. Mac said, "The...
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 click on:
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...
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 is...