ARCS was delighted to welcome Dr. David Schaffer as a speaker at our recent Science Activities gathering. We are in a revolutionary age of discovering how scientists might bioengineer the human body, and Dr. Schaffer is one of the top scientists in this endeavor. His UC Berkeley laboratory’s research employs molecular...
Doreenwas the first Black woman to earn a BS in Cyber Security Engineering from George Mason University. Her research interests at UC Davis include firmware security, applications of machine learning in cyber security, securing the Internet of Things (IoT), and the design of cyber-resilient systems. As an active student...
Hope Hauptmann is this year’s Danaher Foundation ARCS Scholar. In the Department of Environmental Systems at the University of California, Merced, Hope’s focus is on clean drinking water for all. There are chemicals in California’s groundwater, and while cities have systems to treat the water, small rural communities and households using...
What an amazing year it has been at ARCS Northern California! We were thrilled to see so many members at the recent Annual Meeting at the Metropolitan Club on May 17th. It was a wonderful celebration of all our accomplishments this year.
Twenty-five ARCS NCC members attended a field trip to TomKat Ranch & Educational Foundation in Pescadero, an initiative supported by Tom Steyer and wife Kat Taylor’s Foundation to study, develop and amplify the practice of Regenerative Ranching and Agriculture. Members learned, walked the property, and enjoyed a delicious lunch prepared with all...
Those who attended ARCS NCC’s Annual Meeting heard Matthew give a fascinating presentation on his lab’s experiments with electrochemical stripping for nitrogen recovery from water polluted by pesticide run-off, using last year’s algal blooms and fish die-offs around the San Francisco Bay as examples. Matthew earned his B.S. in chemical engineering...
ARCS volunteers say they’d like to help more students like 2022-23 ARCS Foundation scholar Jon Aguiñaga, who is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the Population Biology graduate group at UC Davis.
Aguiñaga is a first-generation Mexican-American student who is the first in his family to graduate college, earn a master’s, and...
ARCS Northern California has an exciting year ahead! This year we are honored to support 83 ARCS Scholars at our seven partner universities, including our first cohort of scholars at new partner UC Merced. We were delighted to be able to meet Alauna Wheeler of UC Merced recently and hear about...
Alauna is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate and mother to a three-year-old, with a second child on the way. She and her husband are both grad students at the UC Merced. Alauna’s research interests include soft matter and self-assembly of biological systems. Her current projects include a...
On the evening of September 15, 2022 ARCS Northern California members were transported to the Earth’s solar system during a presentation by Dr. Raja Guha Thakurta, Professor/Astronomer & Department Chair of the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz for nearly three decades. Raja received his...
