Honolulu ARCS Scholar and University of Hawai‘i alumna Heidi Hammel has been inducted into the national ARCS Alumni Hall of Fame. Vice President for Science at the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), a consortium that operates NASA and National Science Foundation observatories, Dr. Hammel served as Interdisciplinary... Read more
2020 Honolulu ARCS Scholar Tristan McKenzie is co-author on a research paper suggesting that more than half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change. The list, which includes dengue, hepatitis, pneumonia, malaria and Zika, was published August 8 in Nature Climate Change. The team of University... Read more
2022 ARCS Scholar T.J. Corrigan's research on a devastating 2018 supercell thunderstorm over Kaua‘i was featured in The Honolulu Star Advertiser. The storm shattered a 40-year U.S. record for most rainfall during a 24-hour period and caused extensive flooding. Corrigan and his advisor, Dr. Steven Businger of the... Read more
Honolulu ARCS Scholar Dr. Anthony Amendhas demonstrated that an easily and inexpensively produced smoothie can reduce damage from ‘Ohia rust in critically endangered native Hawaiian nioi plants. Amend, an associate professor of botany at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, used a blender to make a slurry... Read more
2019 ARCS Honolulu Scholar Shayle Matsuda has received a 2021 David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship, one of the nation’s premier postdoctoral programs in conservation science. Awarded by the Society for Conservation Biology and the Cedar Tree Foundation, the Smith Fellowship identifies and supports early-career scientists who will shape the... Read more
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... Read more
The orangeblack Hawaiian damselfly, once thought to be extinct on O‘ahu, may be closer to a comeback thanks to the efforts of 2006 ARCS Scholar Will Haines. The Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources research entomologist successfully reintroduced a population of the once ubiquitous endemic insect that play a... Read more
Planets, like people, shrink with age. A team of astronomers led by Honolulu ARCS Scholar Travis Berger found that an intriguing class of Neptune-sized planets, especially those that receive more than 150 times the light that Earth receives from our Sun, lose their atmospheres over a billion years as they... Read more
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.
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
