Benjamin Lesch’s path into science began with a moment of curiosity that never left him. As a middle school student, he first learned about genetic engineering and realized that the building blocks of life could be studied. “The moment that kick-started my journey into science was in middle school. I remember...
Disasters may come with some warning, but often not. That’s why Daniel Swain, PhD, keeps his schedule flexible. Swain is a science communicator who worked nonstop giving interviews and posting online during last winter’s widespread and disastrous fires in the Los Angeles area.
Anusha Bishop is a Northern California ARCS Scholar pursuing her PhD in Environmental Science Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. She is passionate about studying genetic diversity to see how it might inform the scientific community about the challenges that California species face. Her research is already making...
At our December 3, 2024 general membership meeting, we enjoyed a fascinating presentation from UCSF ARCS Scholar Christine Boutros, who talked about her research into San Joaquin Valley Fever, a disease that in a rare 1% of cases disseminates to the nervous system causing lifelong impacts. Christine, a California native, attended...
Arabi Seshappan is an ARCS Scholar in Physics at UC Merced whose current work in computational modeling could apply to solar cell construction and quantum computing. She is on her way to Paris this fall as one of only three U.S. students selected for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program's doctoral research awards...
There are an estimated 31,000 individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease that causes nerve cells to die. An unfortunate side effect is paralysis in the body, ranging from the inability to move limbs to not speaking. However, Tyler Singer-Clark, a Northern California Chapter Scholar at UC Davis, works...
What happens above ground in agroecosystem management impacts what transpires below ground. UC Santa Cruz ARCS Scholar Suzanne Lipton is focusing her PhD research on agroecology, which she explains is “how you could make agricultural systems more sustainable by relying on ecological processes rather than industrializing them.” “The biodiversity...
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...
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...
