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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 below in 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 from Arizona 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 is honored to present the 2011-2012 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...

Northern Arizona University doctoral student Jennifer Ginther has been appointed to Arizona Board of Regents, Gov. Jan Brewer announced last week. Ginther is a second year doctoral student in biology at NAU's Flagstaff campus, where she is also a research specialist for the university's Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics.  She...

Within the last month, the first publication from my graduate research work, “Interacting Noise Sources Shape Patters of Arm Movement Variability in Three-Dimensional Space” was accepted to The Journal of Neurophysiology. Indeed, this was a great day for both me and my advisor/mentor, as we had been working on this project...