Scholar News

The Science Coalition (TSC) announced Mea Songco-Casey, ARCS Scholar at the University of Oregon, as the winner of the Fund it Forward Student Video Challenge. Students currently enrolled at TSC member institutions were asked to create a video explaining their personal connection to fundamental research and why Congress should continue to...

ARCS Oregon first-year scholar Jordan Rodriguez was honored recently with a student presentation award at the 2022 National Diversity in STEM Conference put on by SACNAS – Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in STEM.  A PhD candidate in the Department of Biology at the University of Oregon...

ARCS scholar alum Dylan Anderson came back to Corvallis this fall to help celebrate the Oregon State University’s O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Lab.  He was happy to meet ARCS Oregon president Elizabeth Bell.  When Dylan was pursuing his PhD in engineering at OSU, Sally and Cecil Drinkward funded his ARCS scholar award...

The American Medical Student Association (AMSA)  and the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation partnered to launch the Building Trust Essay Contest. Medical students were asked to reflect on a time where they built, lost, or restored trust in a healthcare setting. This year AMSA and ABIM received essays that tackled...

Brooklyne (pronounced like the NYC borough) Thompson, a 3rd year Chapter Scholar, has had an unconventional PhD journey. She began her PhD (online because of the pandemic) in chemical engineering at Oregon State University, but midway into her 2nd year has been continuing OSU classes online, while living and doing her...

It’s always exciting when we receive news of an ARCS Oregon Scholar defending their dissertation. Daniel Elson, The Gretchen Sturm and Judy Lanfri/Cascadia Scholar from 2017–2020, sent good news of his scheduled November 29 dissertation defense, “The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) in cancer: tumor suppressive signaling, and identification of novel therapeutic...

As pandemic mask requirements were lifted several months ago, three ARCS Chapter Oregon members invited their first-year scholars to lunch, to finally meet them in person. None of them expected the surprise that came next. The two scholars. both pursuing their PhDs at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)...

Mollie Marr has been dreaming about being accepted to the Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program since 2019, so she returned to medical school as early as possible after she received her PhD degree just in case she was accepted. Her dream came true! To learn more about...