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 California and Arizona. It’s...

March 1, 2021 Board Meeting Re-cap

We had about 20 people join our March Board meeting via Zoom.  We will Zoom again in April and plan to meet outdoors in May.  Details forthcoming. 

Jill announced that Carol Browner will continue as Parliamentarian and Sydney Fox will continue as Endowments Chair.  All other...

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...

February 1, 2021  Board Meeting Re-cap

We had thirty people join our February Board meeting via Zoom.  It was great to see so many faces with some wearing hats in honor of our February Tea.

After asking the group to please remain on mute unless speaking so we would not hear...

ARCS Foundation Phoenix Chapter site visit to NAU

ARCS Foundation Phoenix Chapter members made a very successful site visit to Northern Arizona University on November 5, 2020. We were greeted by President Rita Cheng, Provost Diane Stearns, and Dean Maribeth Watwood. The scholars gave very interesting and impressive presentations of their...

Dear ARCS Phoenix Members,

We are fortunate to have so many member donors who have supported our mission for years and years.  Our annual letter to these donors has just gone out seeking Named Scholar Awards for 2021-2022.  I hope that we will get the same incredible response as we did last...

ASU Virtual Visit
October 14, 2020

In a sign of the times, ARCS Phoenix Chapter had a virtual visit via Zoom with our 17 scholars from Arizona State University on Wednesday, October 14, 2020.

One of the highlights of our fall ARCS calendar is our site visits to each of our...

NIH Award Helps ARCS Scholar Research a Defense Against Prostate Cancer Spread

Posted on Tuesday, September 8, 2020

ARCS Scholar Kendra Marr is hoping to stop prostate cancer in its tracks.  

After two long years of hard work and determination, Marr received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein...

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 that it was amazing to spend lots of time...

"ARCS Foundation has been a wonderful part of my life after retirement" states Kathey Plenge, the Phoenix ARCS Light of 2019.  A native of Tennessee, Kathey graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 1964 and did her Neurology Residency at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona where...