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Hello, I’m Sarah Caballero and I’m a 1st year PhD student in Food Science at Oregon State University. This past summer, I road tripped from Southern California, where I grew up and completed my B.S. and M.S. at Cal Poly Pomona. When I applied to OSU, I wanted to work on...

Dear ARCS Community!

I have great news. January 1, we launched a pilot program to attract new members. (For more specifics, click here) I am excited to share that in the first two months, we have eleven new members! Three are current scholars and two are alumni. We all have...

Hola, My name is Ana Lucia Fonseca, and in this piece, I open my heart to tell who I am and what drives me.

Introducing myself through this narrative, I aim to unfold the layers of my identity, beliefs, and passions that drive me. My journey is not just a tale...

ARCS Alum Tracks Human Social Science to Inform Change.

Scientific advances depend on more than research in a lab. Innovation also depends on people and their behaviors. Gretchen Engbring PhD is a Sustainability Social Scientist for Stanford University.  “While we often think about scientific advancements as biophysical and technological, (such as...

I recently spent a lovely evening at the offices of Vernier Science Education, where founders Christine and David Vernier hosted an evening with Ira Flatow, the host of NPR’s popular "Science Friday" program. Ira interviews scientists, authors, and experts about their latest research and discoveries in a live format which features...

Oregon is the only state with a law designed to return taxpayer dollars every two years when there is a surplus of revenue. This year, Oregon’s kicker will send back over $5.6 billion to individual taxpayers. It is estimated that the median taxpayer will receive a credit of just under $1,000...

We need your help to turn a $25,000 matching grant into $50,000 for our Chapter!

The Maybelle Clark MacDonald Fund (MCMF) approved ARCS Foundation Oregon’s grant request for $25,000 in matching funds. This means we must raise $25,000 to receive the full amount of the grant. To date we have received...

As Past President and Treasurer, I welcome the opportunity to work with Anne Jarvis, Ellen Richardson, Gretchen Sturm, and Lori Slaughter on the Financial Health & Sustainability Subcommittee of our Chapter’s Strategic Planning Committee.  Three years ago, Anne and I developed financial projections for the M.J. Murdock Trust Grant proposal, which...

Dear Friends,

I hope that 2024 is off to a great start for all of you. I also hope that those of you in the Pacific Northwest have survived our recent weather woes.   

I am pleased to report that ARCS Foundation Oregon finished the first half of our 2023-24 fiscal year on...

Deborah Purcell, MD

Deborah attended Stanford University and earned a BS in Biology. She then earned her MD and did her pediatric residency at OHSU. Deborah is board certified in pediatrics and a current member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She founded Westside Pediatric Clinic in 1983 and was the...