Congratulations goes to Mack Cullison, the first ARCS Scholar supported by the Jill Josselyn Endowment, who was invited to submit his paper to the Cambridge University Press. Cullison is in the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering at Oregon State University. The findings from this research have potential impacts on... Read more
Debb Glosser, ARCS Scholar at OSU, works mainly with cementitious materials. For her dissertation, she worked on improving ways to model the reaction pathways and products in cements containing fly ash. Fly ash is a waste product from coal combustion/electricity generation that we can remove from the waste stream and... Read more
Oregon State researchers have developed a new way of building computer models to help better understand coastal flooding. ARCS Scholar, Kai Parker, a civil engineering doctoral student, was lead author on the study which also included David Hill, professor of coastal and ocean engineering, Peter Ruggiero, professor of geology and geophysics, and Katherine... Read more
Sunil Joshi received some exciting news that he has been named a 2019 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. The news was hightlighted in the New York Times on April 11, 2019.
According to the co-authored paper published by ARCS scholar Daniel Elson, despite new cancer therapeutics that are discovered at a rapid pace, lack of effective means of delivery thwart many promising therapeutics. Cancer treatment is often accompanied by unacceptable side-effects such as that seen in chemotherapy. These adverse effects result... Read more
Emily Caffrey is a member of a small niche of specialists that predict the fate and transport of radionuclides in the environment in order to help safeguard the health of future generations.
This is just one area where she is having an impact. As a consultant with South Carolina-based Risk... Read more
ARCS Oregon scholar Mollie Marr received the inaugural "Women In Academic Medicine Health Professional In-training Award" on January 29 at OHSU. Congratulations to Mollie!
The Health Professional In-training Award recognizes a student, resident, fellow, or postdoc who has made significant contributions in research, clinical care, education, service, or policy while... Read more
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. Each September, the editorial board of The American Journal of Human Genetics selects two articles published in the journal in the previous year that best... Read more
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. ASICs are expressed in neurons throughout the nervous system and contribute... Read more
Holly Corbitt came to Oregon with dreams of being a professional snowboarder or a pediatrician. But along the way, Holly discovered a passion for biosceince that has taken her life in a different direction.
On December 11, Holly presented her dissertation defense at OHSU: "Clinical and genetic advances for aortopathy... Read more
