Scholar News

Growing up exploring the outdoors, catching frogs, identifying plants and insects, ARCS Scholar Elizabeth Sajewski was fascinated by the world around her, and even more by how it all worked and fit together – solving puzzles in her own backyard. As a PhD candidate studying environmental health science at Emory University’s...

The January General Membership Meeting was held via Zoom on January 13, 2021 following the Board Meeting. We were thrilled to have one of our current scholars as our speaker. Kantwon Rogers, a BlackRock Scholar, working on his PhD in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, shared a very interesting and engaging...

Deborah Kilpatrick, PhD, a member of the inaugural class of Atlanta ARCS Scholars (1992-1993), continues to use her skills, interests, and talents to address the pressing needs of our times.  Dr. Kilpatrick was last highlighted in the December 2014 Scholar Spotlight when she became CEO of Evidation Health. She is now...

When it comes to matters of the heart, ARCS Scholar Alumnus Michael Davis is one of the top biomedical engineers in the world.

His revolutionary research, which focuses on human tissue engineering inside the heart, has been recognized in March 2020 by the American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE).

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Even from an early age, ARCS Scholar Nathan Brown had a strong desire to understand the world around him. Now as a PhD student studying aerospace engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Nathan is more curious about what lies beyond Earth, or rather, how we can get there more efficiently...

Kari Mattison is a PhD candidate in Genetics and Molecular Biology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where her research involves the discovery of new genes that contribute to or cause epilepsy.  After receiving her degree, Kari plans to continue her research, as well as participate in educating the next...

Meet Ashley Rasys, ARCS Scholar and DVM/PhD candidate at the University of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine and Department of Cellular Biology. In early 2019, Ashley took part in a study that resulted in the creation of the world’s first-ever gene-edited lizards. Even more interesting, the first lizard to hatch...

The increase in everyday toxin exposure has gained national attention but how do these contaminants affect pregnancy? Christian Andersen, ARCS Atlanta Chapter Scholar, is determined to find out. Recently accepted into the prestigious 2019 Frontiers in Reproduction (FIR) Course, Andersen will use this experience to expand his research in reproductive...

Our membership was educated and impressed by ARCS Foundation Scholar Elizabeth Sajewski during the January Membership Meeting.  Elizabeth’s research work in Environmental Health Science at Emory University centers on the intersection of water infrastructure and infectious disease, with particular interest in using mathematical models to simulate enteric disease dynamics.  According to...

Sarah Eisenstein (PhD in Neuroscience at University of Georgia, 2008) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.  She uses MRI and PET neuroimaging techniques to study the roles of white matter integrity and different neurotransmitter systems in diseases of...