ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter kicks off our 50th Anniversary Celebration with a Fundraiser Luncheon on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024 at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. Special guest speaker is ARCS Scholar alumna and University of Hawai‘i at Manoa visiting marine scientist Dr. Philoméne Verlaan, speaking on "The Crucial Role of Scientists in Environmental Protection at Global Scale: Examples from Seabed Mining and Marine Geoengineering."Read more
ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter opens it's 50th anniversary year with a trip to Moku o Lo‘e, the island where the chapter was first proposed. In the half century since, it has provided more than $2.4 million in ARCS Scholar grants to 600+ outstanding UH Manoa graduate students.Read more
No worries! You can watch the recorded program at your leisure. The 1980s Honolulu ARCS Scholar and 2023 ARCS Scholar Hall of Fame inductee talks about how she got interested in astronomy, why a high school chorus class was critical to her success, and the emotions accompanying the... Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Patrick Drupp on his promotion to director of climate policy for Sierra Club. The 2014 Honolulu ARCS Scholar joined the environmental non-profit in 2021 as deputy legislative director for climate and clean air. He studied marine geochemistry—focusing on the effects of climate change and ocean acidification on coral... Read more
We are relieved to report that ARCS Honolulu member and Maui resident Alanna Bodenstab and her husband are safe in the wake of devastating wildfies on Maui Island. Two homes in Alanna's Kula neighborhood burned in the Upcountry Maui fire (over an hour's drive from the horrific blaze that leveled... Read more
Congratulations to the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa for a second consecutive year of record-setting research funding. The UH System received $516 million in extramural funding during FY2023—a $10 million jump over the previous year. The largest portion, nearly $343 million, was secured by the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa,... Read more
Dr. Nicholas Krueger received the 2023 University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. The 2018 Honolulu ARCS Scholar (pictured with UH Hilo Chancellor Bonnie Irwin) is an instructor in the university's College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management, with experiise in tropical agronomy, tropical soils, and... Read more
Honolulu ARCS Scholar and 2023 ARCS Alumni Hall of Fame inductee Heidi Hammel was among the scientists interviewed for a PBS NewsHour story marking the first anniversary of observations by the James Webb Space Telescope. View the interview on YouTube.
Congratulations to the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's Dr. Ryuzo Yanagimachi, who received the prestigious 2023 Kyoto prize for biotechnology and medical technology. The professor emeritus of anatomy and reproductive deveoped pioneering invitro fertilization techniques that have enabled millions of people worldwide to bear children and directed the laboraory that... Read more
2023 Scholar of the Year Sefa Muñoz was on Guam to do her research on green sea turtles when Typhoon Mawar struck. She has no power and extremely spotty internet after the strongest storm to hit the U.S. territory in two decades, but is thankful to have running... Read more
