The Minnesota Chapter celebrated the 9th annual Scholar Award Event at the newly re-opened Bell Museum of Natural History on the University of Minnesota campus.
It was a beautiful venue to celebrate this year's Scholars:
ARCS Foundation’s highest honor for volunteer work is given annually to a member from each chapter. This year the ARCS Light Awardee from the Minnesota Chapter is Judith L. Benham, Ph.D.
Judy served as President of ARCS Foundation Minnesota Chapter 2011-2014. She is being honored for her leadership as Vice President of University... Read more
Amanda Hayward, ARCS MN Scholar alum, was awarded the 2017 Award for Outstanding Performance as a Teaching Assistant for the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences. This award is a reflection of her exemplary effort towards fostering undergraduate education. Amanda says she is honored to receive this award because... Read more
When the NCAA promotes the notion of a student athlete, they do not immediately think of ARCS Minnesota Scholar Lizzy Crist as a poster child, but perhaps they should. Crist has already completed her undergraduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis, and was named the 2017 NCAA Woman of... Read more
Dr. Amy Hauck, Minnesota Roche/ARCS Scholar in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota, completed her Ph.D. in November 2017. She is settling into her NIH postdoctoral fellowship position at the University of Pennsylvania in the laboratory of Dr. Mitchell Lazar in the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, & Metabolism. Read more
Minnesota Chapter Scholar Award 2017-2018 Field of Study - Computer Science and Engineering
Kathryn (Kate) Jensen is a Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Computer Science. Kate works under the supervision of Dr. Zhi-Li Zhang, studying graphical networks and computational complexity. Kate is primarily... Read more
On October 26, 2017 the ARCS Minnesota Chapter Scholar Award event was held at the beautiful Bakken Museum. We gave ARCS Scholar awards to three new outstanding graduate students from the University of Minnesota: Lizzy Crist, Kate Jensen and Collette Rogers. Read more
Join us on October 26, 2017 for the ARCS Minnesota Chapter Scholar Award event at the Bakken Museum. Come meet the three new Minnesota Chapter Scholar Award Recipients from University of Minnesota departments of:
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Biophysics
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Science
Our keynote speaker is Dr. Robert Eichinger, a... Read more
Welcome to our new ARCS Foundation website and scholar database! The website project has been three years in the making and has taken many hours of time and commitment from our all-volunteer members. The process of migrating your scholar profile information to our new database has been... Read more
On October 26, 2017 the ARCS Minnesota Chapter Scholar Award event was held at the beautiful Bakken Museum. We gave ARCS Scholar awards to three new outstanding graduate students from the University of Minnesota: Lizzy Crist, Kate Jensen and Collette Rogers.