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At ARCS 2019 All Members Conference (AMC), experience the best Portland has to offer by exploring the city’s most exciting features and attractions in science and technology, nature, and arts and culture with seven scheduled tours and two optional weekend events.

Science and Technology | Three Tours

Advancing science and...

Artificial intelligence (AI) robots have gained wide popularity in the last few years, becoming more common in everyday life. While some praise the benefits that these devices provide, others worry they may hold too much power. Jennifer Leaf, ARCS Oregon Scholar, will discuss these issues and more during ARCS 2019 All...

Sunil Joshi received some exciting news that he has been named a 2019 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow.  The news was hightlighted in the New York Times on April 11, 2019. 

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants who are pursuing a...

ARCS is pleased to announce the approval of two interdisciplinary programs at existing academic partners, University of Washington (UW) and University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC).

These programs allow scholars to expand their field of research by merging ARCS-approved programs in hard sciences with social or clinical research sciences.

Through...

A major pioneer in the field of precision medicine, Dr. Brian Druker will speak at the Thursday night dinner at the 2019 ARCS All Members Conference (AMC). Dr. Druker is an internationally-recognized catalyst in the field of targeted therapeutic cancer treatment and, more specifically, for the treatment of chronic myeloid...

"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...

Spring is just around the corner and for ARCS® Foundation Seattle Scholar, Kelsey Maass, a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington, that means one thing: pysanky.

For those not familiar, pysanky are Ukrainian Easter eggs. They are made using a technique that...

 “I love that it is a complex and difficult instrument. I love a challenge,” said ARCS® Foundation Pittsburgh Scholar Alum, Michelle Heusser.

As a fourth-year PhD student in the Bioengineering Program at the University of Pittsburgh, it might seem like Heusser is referring to the devices she uses to study...

Leading biologist will explore cutting-edge science in Frontiers of Aging address 

LAGRANGE, GA, March 12, 2019 - ARCS® Foundation (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) is proud to announce Dr. Patrick Phillips will deliver the keynote address for the 2019 ARCS All Members Conference (AMC) in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, September 19...

Sue McGrath, Co-President for the Oregon ARCS Chapter, was awarded the Lifetime Trustee Award by the Oregon State University Foundation.  Sue is President of Vision Capital Management, a firm she co-founded with her daughter, Marina Johnson.  Using her finance passion, Sue served as an OSU Foundation Trustee from 1997 to 2013...