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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

  • Taylor Mighell Presented with C.W. Cotterman Award
    Taylor Mighell, NGP Graduate Student, Presented with C.W. Cotterman Award
    Taylor Mighell, NGP graduate student in Brian O'Roak's lab, was presented with C.W. Cotterman Award at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in October. His donors are Susan and George Swindells.
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  • Nate Yoder's Paper Published in Nature
    Nate Yoder's Paper Published in Nature, International Journal of Science
    Congratulations to NGP student, Nate Yoder on his new paper in Nature! For the first time, researchers in the Vollum Institute have determined the atomic structure of an acid-sensing ion channel (ASIC) in a resting state at high pH. His donor is the Bechen Family Foundation.
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  • Elizabeth Holzenthal Receives Prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship
    Congratulations to OSU College of Engineering, ARCS scholar Elizabeth Holzenthal, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, coastal and ocean engineering. Elizabeth was recently named a recipient of an NSF Graduate Fellowship, (GRFP). Elizabeth, a first year scholar, is working on a project aimed at contributing to the development of a new generation of natural hazard engineering. Her donors are Diane and Dick Alexander.
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  • Kevin Watanabe-Smith Wins Statewide 3MT Competition
    ARCS Scholar Kevin Watanabe-Smith, who studies cancer biology in Dr. Brian Druker's lab, took first place at the state's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Kevin was sponsored by the Allan Price Memorial ARCS Award.
  • ARCS Scholar Danielle Robinson Awarded 2016 Mozilla Fellowship for Science
    Danielle Robinson, Ph.D. candidate in the OHSU School of Medicine Neuroscience Graduate Program, is one of four fellows selected worldwide to receive the Mozilla Fellowship for Science. Her donors are Ellen and Mark Richardson.