Your Contributions Go Further With $25,000 In Matching Funds!
Last month, trustees of the Maybelle Clark MacDonald Fund (MCMF) approved ARCS Foundation Oregon’s request for $25,000 in matching funds to support the Chapter’s efforts to implement new technology for its expanded operations. This means that we must raise $25,000... Read more
Congratulations to Toni Doolen, recipient of the Society of Women Engineers' 2023 Suzanne Jenniches Upward Mobility Award. Doolen is Dean of the Oregon State University Honors College, and an ARCS Oregon member.
The award honors a woman leader who has succeeded in rising in their organization to a significant management... Read more
Caron Ogg will take the stage on November 13th to accept the honor of “AFP Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year.” The Association of Fundraising Professionals each November salutes the great contributions of philanthropy and those people active in the philanthropic community.
Someone once said, “It takes a village,” and I have definitely felt the truth of that statement over the weeks since I assumed the presidency of ARCS Foundation Oregon on July 1.
I have so many people to thank for enabling a smooth transition for me from... Read more
Jayathi Y. Murthy, a national leader in higher education engineering teaching, research and service, began her service as Oregon State University’s 16th president on Sept. 9, 2022. She is the first female to lead the university, and the ARCS Chapter’s first university President as a member.
Michelle Ozaki is an ARCS scholar alum and ARCS Oregon member. Work to finalize her PhD in cancer biology at OHSU continues with a big boost, via a fellowship from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health. Ozaki has been awarded a F99/KOO fellowship that will... Read more
John Karl Scholz is the 19th president of the University of Oregon. He began his tenure on July 1, 2023, after the UO Board of Trustees unanimously selected him as president on March 13, 2023.
Prior to joining the UO, Scholz was the provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a... Read more
ARCS Oregon member Elise McClure joined Oregon State’s University’s Board of Trustees in July 2023, approved by the state legislature with five other new trustees. McClure earned her undergraduate degree in business at OSU and was inducted into OSU’s College of Business Hall of Fame in 2019.
Julie Branford has contributed her energy, leadership and organizational experience to the Oregon ARCS chapter since she joined in 2014. Julie became a member after attending an annual scholar luncheon and being wowed by the scholar speaker. (That scholar speaker was Julie Maxon, who now has her own lab at... Read more
Helena (Lena) Breuer, the Walsh Construction Co. Scholar, was presented with the University Transportation Centers’ Outstanding Student of the Year Award at the Transportation Research Board’s Annual Banquet in Washington D.C. This is an international conference that brings researchers from all over the world to the USA.
