2018 ARCS Scholar of the YearChris Shuler gave the inaugural lecture on HaloCampus, a ground-breaking digital platform that streams 3D holograms of University of Hawai‘i faculty to American Samoa Community College classes in real-time. Chris, a Toby Lee ARCS Scholar in Earth Sciences, talked about... Read more
Honolulu life member Stephanie Laws and her husband Ed were featured in the University of Hawaii Foundation's 2018 annual report for establishing the Global Environmental Science Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship supports undergraduate students in the Global Enviornmental Science program in UH Manoa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology... Read more
The Honolulu Chapter and coral scientists around the world mourn the death of Dr. Ruth Gates, director of the Hawai‘i Institute for Marine Biology and president of the International Society for Reef Studies. Gates was named 2015 ARCS Honolulu Scientist of the Year for her groundbreaking research on... Read more
ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter’s 2017 Scientist of the Year Richard Yanagihara will discuss Hantaviruses: A Personal Journey of Discovery and New Begninnings at a free pauhana talk beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 14, 2017 in the Agricultural Sciences Building on the UH Manoa campus. Hantaviruses are a... Read more
1989 Honolulu ARCS Scholar Luke Flynn has been named the University of Hawai‘i System's Employee of the Year for 2017. As director of the univesity’s Hawai‘i Space Flight Laboratory and Hawai‘i Space Grant Consortium, he has overseen development and launch of the university of Hawai‘i at Manoa’s first rocket and... Read more
Two of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa’s top three graduate student researchers for 2017 are ARCS Scholars. William Best and Glen Chew are the latest doctoral candidates recognized by ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter to also receive the UH Manoa Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence in Research. Five ARCS Scholars have won the Chancellor's Award in the four years since it was established.Read more
The Honolulu Chapter’s annual Hearts of Gold fundraiser featured butterflies, damsels in distress and an ARCS Scholar alum who is coming to their aid. Dr. Will Haines, who received the 2006 Maybelle F. Roth Award in Conservation Biology, described his efforts to increase populations of rare and endangered Hawaiian insects... Read more
2014 Honolulu ARCS Scholar of the Year Ryan Gough has received additional recognition. Gough, pictured with University of Hawai‘i Regent Randolph Moore, left, and UH Manoa Chancellor Robert Bley-Vroman, received the university’s 2016 Student Excellence in Research Award, its top honor for student researchers, for making fundamental advances in electrical... Read more
An astronomy doctoral candidate whose software automated the search for small planets has been named the ARCS Foundation Honolulu 2016 Scholar of the Year. Benjamin “BJ” Fulton received the 2016 Columbia ARCS Award in Astronomy. He was one of 12 University... Read more
University of Hawai‘i scholar Jouran Posner attended the Keystone Symposium on B Cells at the Intersection of Innate and Adaptive Immunity over the summer, thanks to funding from her ARCS/Roche Foundation Award in Medicine. She was invited to give a short talk on her research in addition to her poster... Read more
