According to family lore, 2-year-old Emily Levesque insisted on tagging along when her older brother went outside for a school assignment to watch Haley’s Comet pass near earth. She grew fussy, as toddlers do, until her parents pointed her toward the night sky. She was mesmerized.
Honolulu Chapter life member Dr. Jacquie Maly was featured in the University of Hawai‘i Foundation’s Kupono magazine for her career and contributions to Windward Community College.
A summer enrichment program for high school science teachers brought her to Hawai‘i, where she was an integral founding faculty member of Windward's science faculty.... Read more
2011 Honolulu ARCS Scholar Jason Higa received the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's 2020 Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Recipient of the Ellen M. Koenig Award in Medicine and the Honolulu Chapter's 2011 Scholar of the Year, Jason is an assistant professor in the Department of Anatomy, Biochemistry and... Read more
A $500,000 gift from a woman who never lost her love of learning will generate ARCS Scholar Awards in perpetuity in oceanography and other fields at University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
Sergey Negrashov is an ARCS Scholar at University of Hawaii at Manoa, who graduated in May 2020 with a PhD in Information and Computer Science. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Hawaii, Sergey became aware of the severe shortage of protective masks available to healthcare workers and first responders in... Read more
ARCS Scholar Alumni Dr. Lindsay Young and Dr. Eric VanderWerf first connected over similar areas of research. Now married, the two continue to foster their shared interest through the mission of the Pacific Rim Conservation(PRC), a research-based nonprofit organization that maintains and restores native bird populations and ecosystems... Read more
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
