On Wednesday, November 12th, the 2025 ARCS Atlanta Scholar Awards Celebration (SAC) showcased the best of scientific scholarship in the beautiful ballroom of the Piedmont Driving Club. The 2025 SAC was a networking reception and light lunch at which members, donors, and guests chatted informally with the scholars. All scholars exhibited poster displays and guests were eager to learn about their research.
ARCS Atlanta President Frances Swensson welcomed the scholars and guests and recognized Georgia-Pacific and Northside Hospital for their many years of support to ARCS Atlanta and our scholars. Georgia Pacific has supported ARCS Atlanta and our scholars for 20 years and Northside Hospital has supported us 10 years. A scholar representing each of our schools spoke briefly about what the ARCS Awards have meant to them, after which Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs and Dean of the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies at Emory University, Dr. Kimberly Jacob Arriola spoke to donors and scholars thanking them for their support of science.
In 2025, ARCS Atlanta gave awards to 53 scholars in many different science disciplines from Emory, Georgia Tech, Morehouse, and UGA.
Over 100 spectacular photos from the 2025 Scholar Awards Celebration are rotating below. To see all the photos from the 2025 Scholar Awards Celebration, you may use this link:
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Thanks from Alum Eliot Quon, Postdoctoral Researcher at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
ARCS Foundation has been a highlight of my academic career thus far, thank you for the support!
Thanks from Scholar Natale Sciolino
"Thank you dearly for your generous contribution to my scientific development. Your contribution has had a profound impact on me at both a personal and professional level. It is a privilege to be an ARCS Scholar, and with this support I will continue to pursue research that aims to advance Neuroscience."
Thanks from Scholar Kevin Yehl
"I was very fortunate to be selected as one of this year's ARCS scholars... I plan to pursue an academic career in chemistry... Your support will allow me to continue my biomedical research in developing novel strateigies to treat drug resistant cancers and cardiovascular diseases... Again, thank you so much for your support of the sciences and post graduate education, both of which are very important in keeping America competitive..."