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...
ARCS Foundation Phoenix welcomed Thomas Sadvary, CEO of the Scottsdale Lincoln Health Network, as he presented a thoughtful view of today’s healthcare industry at its May luncheon. “In the last 20 years developments in research and technology have brought big changes,” he said. New drugs have appeared, and Americans are spending...
ARCS Foundation Phoenix honored thirty-seven outstanding science Ph.D. candidates from Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and University of Arizona on April 25, 2014 at the Arizona Biltmore. Their fields included engineering, computer science, neuroscience, applied mathematics, cancer biology, pathogen genomics, ecology, environmental science, physiology, optical science and more. They share...
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...
Congratulations on your selection as a 2014-2015 ARCS Foundation Phoenix Scholar. A Scholar Awards Dinner in your honor will be held at the Arizona Biltmore on Friday, April 25, 2014.
You and one guest are complimentary. Additional guests are $150 per person. Before clicking on the registration link below, be sure...
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...
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...
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 
thoughtful view of today’s healthcare industry at its May luncheon. “In the last 20 years developments in research and technology have brought big changes,” he said. New drugs have appeared, and Americans are spending...
A little over a year ago, some of the leading researchers in synthetic biology decided to start a...