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Recent ARCS Events

Honolulu's 2023 ARCS Scholar Awards were presented in May at Outrigger Canoe Club in Waikiki.

  • Corrisa Hayes with award certificate
  • Matthew Nakamura with certificate
  • Corrisa Hayes, Matthew Nakamura, Shunagh Robbins
  • Holden Jones with certificate
  • Shane Goettl with certificate
  • Leon Tran with certificate
  • Katherine Ackerman with certificate
  • Gabrielle Stedman with certificate
  • Evan Kelly with certificate
  • Anna Payne with certificate
  • Connor Auge with certificate
  • Nina Allan with certificate
  • Lance Nunes with certificate
  • Troy Odo with certificate
  • Lauren Braley with certificate
  • Tyler Goodearly with certificate
  • Katherine Ackerman with Jacqueline Maly

To Quote a Scholar: Alexandru Sasuclark

Alexandru Sasuclark headshot“My research, if successful, would add a new diagnostic toolset for medical professionals to assess risk for those already at a high risk for developing neuropsychiatric disorders.”

Honolulu ARCS Scholar Alexandru Sasuclark received Best Poster Presentation at the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s 2021 Annual Biomedical Sciences and Health Disparities Symposium. The George and Virginia Starbuck ARCS Award receipient studies the role of selenium in development of particular neurons in the brain and the perineuronal net structures that surround them. Disruption in their development is characteristic of many neurodevelopmental diseases. A University of Hawai‘i at Manoa PhD candidate in Cell and Molecular Biology, Alexandru aspires to a career in industry pursuing treatments for neurological ailments.

Read about his inspiration or watch his video

Scholar Update: Indigenous Scientist Haunani Kane

Haunani Kane headshot

“Climate issues are large global issues, but the solutions are really going to need to be locally based, driven by communities: community needs, and their vision for the future, as well as looking at our native people and the way that they have sustainably managed lands and their coastal resources,”

2017 Toby Lee ARCS Scholar Dr. Haunani Kane combines indigenous knowledge and modern scientific techniques in her work as Univrsity of Hawai‘i at Manoa assistant professor of earth sciences. Read more

Scholar Update: Marine Biologist Shayle Matsuda

Shayle Matsuda at ocean overlook“The increasing frequency and severity of global coral bleaching events, the devastation to reef ecosystems and the communities who rely on them led to my dedication to coral reef conservation.”

As a University of Hawai‘i at Manoa doctoral candidate, 2019 Honolulu ARCS Scholar Shayle Matsuda pioneered new molecular techniques to study symbioses between coral, algae and bacteria. He continues that work as part of an international coral reef restoration project under a 2021 David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship—a premier postdoctoral program in conservation science that supports early-career scientists and seeks solutions to the most pressing conservation challenges.