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Events Highlights

Recent ARCS Events

The Oregon Chapter hosted the 2019 All Member Conference in Portland in September. 

  • Current president, Julie Branford (center) and past presidents, Joan Foley and Aletha Anderson welcome ARCS members to Oregon.

  • National President, Sherry Lundeen greets ARCS members.

  • Patrick Philips, Provost at UO, gives presentation about aging.

  • Robotics panel from OSU, including ARCS scholar, Jennifer Leaf.

  • ARCS Light recipients from various chapters. Joan Foley is Oregon's ARCS Light.

  • National Board members

  • Metro Washington members attending AMC

  • ARCS Oregon members attending AMC

  • Sherry Lundeen, national president, with Phoenix members 

  • Oregon members attending the opening reception

  • Dr. Brian Druker, told ARCS members of his development of Gleevec, a drug therapy that treats chronic myeloid leukemia. ARCS scholars, Sunil Joshi, Ted Braun and Julia Maxson who work with Dr. Druker joined the event.

  • Seattle Chapter members attending AMC

  • David Stone welcomes ARCS members to the OSU Food and Innovation Center

  • Product wall at the Food and Innovation Center

  • Wine Tour at Sokol Blosser Winery

  • Tasting wine in the barrel room

  • Oregon members enjoying the wine tour

  • ARCS scholar alum, Ted Braun, at Knight Cancer Research Institute tour

  • ARCS members and spouses enjoyed the Japanese Garden

  • Japanese Garden tour

  • Primate Center tour

  • ARCS Oregon president and past president photographed with Primate Center panel including ARCS scholar, Mariya Shapiro

  • ARCS members intently listen to Dr. Bruce Mate, director of the Whale Telemetry Group in the Marine Mammal Institute

  • Dr. Bruce Mate identified a gray whale close to shore

  • Whale watching at the Yaquina Head lighthouse

  • Sunil Joshi, ARCS Scholar at OHSU, Receives Soros Fellowship
    Sunil Joshi is the first at OHSU to receive the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship Award. The fellowship supports outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants who are pursuing a graduate education in the United States. Sunil's research interest covers intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms of drug resistance in the setting of acute myeloid leukemia. He works with Brian J. Druker, MD, a world-recognized expert in cancer.
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