Glen M. Chew’s research has identified a way to “release the brakes” and reverse defects in viral-specific immune cells that keep them from killing HIV-infected cells. Chew received the Honolulu Chapter’s 2016 Koenig Award in Medicine.
First hypothesized in 1933, dark matter is believed to make up a little more than a quarter of all the matter in the universe. It cannot be seen, but its presence is inferred from the gravitational affect it has on the smaller quantity of visible matter. A promising candidate for... Read more
Expansion of the Universe may be accelerating, but so is our understanding, thanks to R. Brent Tully, ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter’s 2016 Scientist of the Year. Tully is considered a father of modern observational cosmology for 40 years of doing “cosmology up close” at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa’s... Read more
ARCS Scholar Richard Ordonez was among the inaugural group of faculty members and graduate students recently inducted into the University of Hawai‘i chapter of the National Academy of Inventors. The organization honors investigtors who have obtained patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Ordonez received ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter’s... Read more
ARCS Foundation Honolulu is hosting a free workshop on Oct. 28 to help graduate students their scholarly work in ways that engage the lay audience.
The program features award winning science blogger (and 2013 ARCS Scholar) Christie Wilcox on using social media, public education specialist Judy Lemus on creating... Read more
Preconditioning to increased ocean temperature and acidification might buy corals time in the race to survive climate change, ARCS Scholar Alumna Hollie Putnam reported in the August 2015 Journal of Experimental Biology. The University of Hawai‘i integrative biologist demonstrated that adult... Read more
Preconditioning to increased ocean temperature and acidification might buy corals time in the race to survive climate change, ARCS Scholar Alumna Hollie Putnam reported in the August 2015 Journal of Experimental Biology. The University of Hawai‘i integrative biologist... Read more
ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter presented 11 scholar awards during its annual awards banquet at the Outrigger Canoe Club in May. Meet the scholars. Recipients included Scholar of the Year Ruthsenne Perron, who is part of a... Read more
ARCS Scholar H. Jabran Zahid has received the Robert J. Trumpler Award, given by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific to recognize a recent PhD thesis considered unusually important to astronomy.
Zahid’s thesis work measured the chemical evolution... Read more
Honolulu Chapter President Cheryl Ernst, fourth from left, was among the guests at recent the University of Hawai‘i Foundation Scholarship Celebration bringing donors together with the University of Hawai‘i students who benefit from their gifts.
The theme for the evening was on the sciences,... Read more
Glen M. Chew’s research has identified a way to “release the brakes” and reverse defects in viral-specific immune cells that keep them from killing HIV-infected cells. Chew received the Honolulu Chapter’s 2016 Koenig Award in Medicine.
Preconditioning to increased ocean temperature and acidification might buy corals time in the race to survive climate change, ARCS Scholar Alumna 
ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter presented 11 scholar awards during its annual awards banquet at the Outrigger Canoe Club in May. 
Zahid’s thesis work measured the chemical evolution... 