Congratulations to Heather Skeen, an ARCS Illinois Scholar alumna from The University of Chicago! Heather is the first author on a new scientific paper published in the journal "Molecular Ecology," on the changing diet of migratory birds.
Heather says, "This study was funded in large part by the ARCS Award, including... Read more
The ARCS Foundation Illinois Chapter has decided to switch our October Scholar Award Event to be a virtual event.
Please save the date of Thursday October 21, 2021!
The ARCS Foundation Illinois Chapter is tremendously grateful to our February 2021 donors! From February 1 through February 24, 2021, we ran an online 75/25 raffle that culiminated into a science talk by ARCS Illinois member Dr. Tracey Wszalek, who is the Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at... Read more
One of our newest ARCS Illinois Scholars from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign wrote us a wonderful thank you note in appreciation of our support for his research.
Dear ARCS Illinois community,
I'm writing to thank you for awarding me the honor of being an ARCS scholar. The acknowledgement and financial support that this... Read more
On June 13, we hosted our Annual Meeting at The Fortnightly in Chicago. Members and guests enjoyed a presentation by ARCS Illinois scholar Jessica Saw, who described her research at University of Illinois and the impact her award has had on both her work and her personal life.
Great news from ARCS Illinois scholar Ivan Lepetic!
A paper he wrote on his research has just been published in Physical Review D.
“The ArgoNeuT collaboration … [provides] a kind of first chapter in the guidebook on what to look for when a supernova neutrino meets argon. Its... Read more
A news release from the University of Illinois just came out on a paper our ARCS Illinois Scholar, Jessica Saw, published about her reserach involving kidney stone composition.
ARCS® Illinois WON the chapter challenge at the ARCS® Foundation All Members Conference (AMC) in Washington, DC! Our chapter had the highest percentage of members (guests included) who made the trip to Washington to learn more about the organization at the National level and meet many impressive women from all of our... Read more
ARCS Foundation’s highest honor for volunteer work given annually to a member from each chapter
ARCS® Foundation honored 14 of its members for their work on behalf of the mission to promote academically outstanding students in the areas of science, engineering, and medical research at an awards ceremony in Washington,... Read more
ARCS Illinois IIT scholar, Katherine Asztalos, attended the 2017 C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium at MIT to participate in the poster session. She presented part of her work entitled "Unsteady Aerodynamic Theory in BEM Model of VAWT". This work focuses on the implementation of a linear unsteady aerodynamic model... Read more
