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
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
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... Read more
2002 Honolulu Scholar Kelly Benoit-Bird has been named a PopTech! Fellow and received a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award" grant for developing accoustic equipment to study marine mammals and the open ocean ecosystem.Read more
2011 ARCS Honolulu Scholar Yuriy Mikhaylov conducts research on the impact tsunami forces on coastal structures—a subject of obvious interest in the wake of the tsunami damage resulting from this year’s earthquake in Japan.
Using computer simulation models, Mikhaylov applies eight... Read more