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Monica Gerth was an ARCS Scholar at Emory University during the 2005-2007 academic years. Dr. Gerth is currently Principal Investigator with her own research group of graduate students at the University of Otago in Duneden, New Zealand. Her research involves engineering enzymes to do useful things (such as blocking biofilm formation)...

Jodell Linder Jackson was an ARCS Scholar at University of Georgia during the 2007-2009 academic years. Dr. Jackson is currently Health Information Systems Project Manager at the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research where she helps build bioinformatics tools used to address questions concerning patients electronic medical records, biological specimens...

Heather Patisaul was an ARCS Scholar at Emory University during the 2000-2001 academic year. Dr. Patisaul is currently Associate Professor of Biological Science at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Her research focus is neuroendocrine development and endocrine disruption.

She was named National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Outstanding New...

Jason Sello was an ARCS Scholar at Morehouse College during the 1996-1997 academic year. Dr. Sello is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Brown University. Prior to his appointment at Brown, Prof. Sello was a visiting scientist at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, England and a post-doctoral...

Lonnie Sullivan, II, was an ARCS Scholar at Morehouse College during the 2011-2013 academic years. Lonnie received his B.S. in Biology/Biological Sciences in 2013. He is currently a medical student at Duke University School of Medicine.

Mr. Sullivan says “Since graduation I have continued my pursuit of obtaining a higher...

Alexander Williams was an ARCS Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 2010-2011 academic year. He completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2011. Dr. Williams was recently named Alloy Engineering Project Manager for Apple Computer in the San Francisco Bay area.

Following graduation, Dr. Williams...

Jennifer Sorrells was an ARCS Scholar at Emory University during the 2006-2007 academic year. She completed her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at Emory University in 2008. Dr. Sorrells was recently named Research, Development & Engineering Manager for Nalco Champion an Ecolab Company in Houston, TX.

Following graduation, Dr. Sorrells completed a...

Debra A. Cooper was an ARCS Scholar at Emory University during the 2010-2013 academic years. After receiving her Ph.D., Dr. Cooper did a postdoc at the University of Texas Medical Branch for 1.5 years where she worked in the Center for Addiction Research focusing on a project studying how the serotonergic system...

Courtney Pollard, III, was an ARCS Scholar at Morehouse College during the 2005-2006 academic year. Dr. Pollard received his B.S. in Biology in 2006 then went on to receive his M.D./Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2014. He is currently an intern physician at MedStar Harbor Hospital in Baltimore and...

Christina Scherrer was an ARCS Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 2002-2003 and 2004-2005 academic years. While working to complete her Ph.D., Dr. Scherrer “took a break … for a year to teach math in an Atlanta public school.” She is currently an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering...