Kristin Watkins is the chapter's other recipient of the 2026 ARCS Foundation Oregon Presidential Award. She has been a steadfast champion of ARCS Oregon since 2015. She is vice president for donor engagement and chief marketing officer at the Oregon State University Foundation, where she leads communications and marketing, donor stewardship...
ARCS Foundation Oregon’s 2026 ARCS Light Honoree is Sheila Goodwin.
Sheila joined ARCS Foundation Oregon in 2012 and set to work growing the ARCS Oregon membership in the Corvallis area. She opened her home for a series of lunches to encourage others to join ARCS, and this work resulted in a...
Jamie Brown joined ARCS Oregon in 2018 and has served as an unofficial embedded development officer for ARCS Foundation Oregon since that time. She provided the search committees with wise counsel during each of three Executive Director searches. She leveraged her connections and expertise to provide ARCS Oregon with venues, speakers...
Vanessa uses ocean observations to study glacier ice-ocean interactions as a PhD student at Oregon State University.
During her undergraduate work, “I learned that I gravitate toward hands-on research where I can use physics as a tool to understand our changing planet, a topic I’m passionate about,” she says. “I decided...
ARCS Oregon members have the opportunity to meet Dawn J. Wright, author of Mapping the Deep on June 9th at the Sharon Hewitt Book Club via Zoom.
Dawn Jeannine Wright is an American geographer and oceanographer. She is a leading authority in the application of geographic information system (GIS) technology to...
A reception was hosted by Oregon State University to celebrate the partnership between the university, the OSU Foundation, and ARCS Foundation Oregon by recognizing ARCS donors whose philanthropy advances scientific research and supports the next generation of scientists at OSU.
ARCS Foundation Oregon has supported 229 OSU doctoral students since 2008...
Congratulations, Lara, for being honored with National's ARCS Sparks Award! The ARCS Sparks Award is meant to honor ARCS members who exhibit small, everyday acts of kindness or displays of leadership or commitment to ARCS Foundation within the chapter or at the National level.
"Lara has been the lead, working with Philanthropy...
Shanjida Khan’s PhD research at Oregon Health & Science University focused on building imagining systems that “allow us to see the front part of the human eye. The imaging systems use a noninvasive imaging technique, optical conference tomography, which is similar to ultrasound,” she explains. But instead of “using sound waves...
Emily and Jarvis Caffrey are ARCS Oregon scholar alums who both earned their PhDs at Oregon State University. Emily’s 2015 PhD focused on Radiation Health Physics, and Jarvis earned his PhD in nuclear engineering in 2016.
Emily was funded by the Wills Family and Jarvis received a Chapter Award. They now...
The Knight Cancer Institute, part of Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU), received a $2 billion commitment recently from Phil and Penny Knight. It is considered the largest single donation to a US university or academic health center to support future cancer care.
