As a major food staple throughout the Pacific Islands and around the Pacific Rim, breadfruit an essential agrosecurity crop. Its biggest advocate may well be ARCS Scholar alumna Diane Ragone, who is credited with creating and curating the largest and most diverse breadfruit conservation collection in the world. On Nov. 14...

Arianna Bunnell is pursuing her PhD in computer science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, with an appointment at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center. Her research utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance breast imaging—specifically, mammography and ultrasound—with the goal of expanding access to early cancer detection.

“At the highest...

Join seabird ecologist Beth Flint and marine journalist Susan Scott for a trip through the natural and unnatural histories of Johnston and Palmyra Atolls in a free hybrid talk hosted by ARCS Honolulu Chapter on Thursday, Oct. 16.

Some of the least visited sites on Earth, these islands, reefs, and pelagic...

Hawai‘i's congressional delegation and Governor Josh Green were on hand to cheer as the University of Hawai‘i announced its fourth consecutive year of record extramural funding. FY2025 saw a 19 percent increase to $734 million, with more than two thirds of that secured by UH Manoa, the UH System's flagship research...

ARCS Honolulu Scholar Alum Chris Lowe is one of the shark scientists inspired by Jaws who were interviewed for a New York Times article on the 50th anniversary of the film. The mechanical shark looked fake, but the marine biologist role was intriguing, the California State Long Beach researcher says of...

19 University of Hawai‘i at Manoa PhD students in botany, engineering and medicine were named 2025 Honolulu ARCS Scholars of the Year at the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Award Banquet held May 5. Allie Hall, who uses fungi to improve survival of endangered nānū trees, Ty Shitanaka who explores...

Honolulu ARCS Scholar Alum Anthony Amend will discuss "Fantastical Yeasts and Where to Find Them (in Hawaiʻi)" at the April 16 gathering of Honolulu Science Café. Dr. Amend is a professor in the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's Pacific Biosciences Research Center, where he heads the Amend Lab on Microbial Diversity...

Hawai‘i Public Radio's Bytemarks Cafe explored how Honolulu ARCS Scholar Awards support University of Hawai‘i graduate students during a recent broadcast. Honolulu Chapter Co-President Cheryl Ernst and robotics engineer Dr. Brenan Yamamoto, a scholar alum now on staff at UH's Applied Research Laboratory, were joined by 2024 Scholars Jordie Ho (Tropical...

2001-2002 Honolulu ARCS Scholar Jenifer Sunrise Winter discusse "The Role of Hardware in Responsible AI Governance" in a free hybrid pauhana program on Wednesday, March 12. Tune in online at 5 p.m. or join us por pupus at 4:30 p.m. on campus before the in-person presentatoin in AgSciences Room 219.

Register...

Shop ARCS Honolulu Chapter's Heart of Gold online auction through Feb. 24 for unique gifts—from a one-of-a-kind hand-woven lauhala hat and household items to books, games and baby itemsa. Proceeds benefit ARCS Scholar Awards. Visit Bidding Owl; email arcshonolulu@gmail.com for assistance or instructions in using Bidding Owl.

Dr. Khaldoon Ishmael is the latest ARCS Scholar featured in this year's Honolulu Science Café dinner speaker series. He will discuss "Revolutionizing Health Monitoring with Remote Bio-Radar Technology." He worked on application of Doppler Radar for non-invasive physiological monitoring as the 2021 Kresser ARCS Scholar in Electrical Engineering. Read more.

Western democracies are losing the technology competition and U.S. leadership is being challenged scientifically on the global stage, warns an editorial in Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The article, shared by Honolulu ARCS Scholar alumna and ScienceAdvisor newsletter editor Christie Wilson, cites Australian...

The John A. Burns School of Medicine honored Honolulu ARCS member Dr. Mariana Gerschenson for 12 years of remarkable service in the JABSOM dean's office. Mariana served as the inaugural associate dean after stints as director of research and director of graduate education for the University of Hawai‘i's medical school. She...

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Keaweʻaimoku Kaholokula, chair of Native Hawaiian Health at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's John A. Burns School of Medicine, on being one of 100 new members inducted into the National Academy of Medicine in 2024. He is the fist Native Hawaiian physician to be so honored....

In a salute to ARCS Honolulu Chapterʻs 50th anniversary, Honolulu Science Café will include two ARCS members and an ARCS Scientist of the Year in its fall schedule of monthly dinner speakers. Science Café brings together science enthusiasts from across O‘ahu for conversation and edification on the third Wednesday of the...

The University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center has received the maximum five-year renewal of its National Cancer Institute designation. The center received its best score in a decade and classification as an “outstanding” cancer center, placing it in the top 4 percent of all cancer centers in the country. Only 72 centers...

Congratulations to the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's Dr. Tomoaki Miura, inducted as an American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Fellow in September. Dr. Miura is professor and chair of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, one of five College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources departments supported with Honolulu ARCS...

Honolulu ARCS Scholar Katie C.Y. Lee has demonstrated the importance of an energy regulating enzyme in heart health. “We discovered that your heart can't really be healthy without PKM2,” she says.

Building on research that Pyruvate kinase M2 plays a key role in glucose metabolism and energy expenditure, Katie demonstrated that...

The University of Hawai‘i at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine's National Insititues of Health grant to train graduate students and postdocs in cardiovascular health research has been renewed for another fiove years. The T32 grant will provide $385,000 per year to JABSOM's Center fort Cardiovascular Research train scientists in...

Congratulations to 2024 ARCS Scholar Arianna Brunnell, elected president of Graduate Women in Science Hawai‘i. GWISH unites women, girls, non-binary and gender non-conforming people across all science discipline and from diverse backgrounds to provide networking, professional development, and community presence. Arianna previously served as development coordinator for the organization. A...

For the third consecutive year, the University of Hawai‘i has set a new record for extramural funding, again exceeding half a billion dollars. UH Manoa, the UH Systemʻs flagship campus and ARCS Honoluluʻs partner university, accounted for $464.9 million, including $13 million for community based projects to address health inequities and...

Veteran conservationist Suzanne Case will talk about "My Life in Conservation: From Nature Conservancy to the University of Hawaii‘i" in a free, hybrid pau hana event on August 29. Pupus will be provided from 5 p.m. for in-person participants at the Sinclair Honu Conference Room at UH Manoa, with the talk beginning...

Island visitors and crossword afficianados alike recognize the nēnē goose as Hawai‘i’s State Bird. But did you know that there were once three species—one flightless—that all evolved from Canadian geese which made it to the archipelago some 500 million years ago?

Honolulu ARCS Scholar Patrick Hart shares information about the nēnē...

Native Hawaiians exhibit higher rates of accelerated aging compared to white and Japanese Americans, the Honolulu Chapterʻs 2024 Scientist of the Year reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A leading epigeneticist, Dr. Alika Maunakea is a professor in the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa John A. Burns...

University of Hawai‘iʻs Sea Grant College Program has received a $68.5 million grant to work with government, community, and non-profit partners to bring indigenous knowledge and practices to bear on long-term climate resilience in the state. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration funding will support conservation efforts and build community governance...

The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Hawai‘i a major cyberinfrastructure grant, and its president has been been tapped for national information technology roles.

The five-year, $6.5 million NSF grant is intended to improve cyberinfrastructure in the Pacific. With partners from Chaminade University, University of Guam, and Texas Advanced Computing...

Honolulu ARCS Scholar Patrick Drupp has expressed caution about geoengineering research designed to artificially cool Earth. "We’re already running a massive chemical experiment on the planet, and now you’re talking about another massive experiment,” the director of climate policy for the Sierra Club told the New York Times. “I’m not...

The first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in geology from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Haunani Kane has never lost sight of her cultural roots in pursuing her science career.

Most recently, the 2017 Toby Lee ARCS Scholar was co-author on a PLOS One article reporting that culturally...

Honolulu associate member Mariana Gerschenson has secured $11.3 million in National Institute of Health funding for an additional five years of diabetes research in Hawai‘i, where nearly one in two people have the disease or live with pre-diabetes. Dr. Gerschenson is associate dean for research at the University of Hawai‘i at...

Welcome to Dr. Parwinder Grewal, new Dean of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoaʻs College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources—one of the Honolulu partner universityʻs six units supported with ARCS Scholar Awards.

“I want CTAHR to have a real impact on food security in Hawaiʻi and work collaboratively with the...

Honolulu ARCS Scholar Christopher Kang is lead author on the cover article of the February 2024 issue of the American Chemistry Societyʻs Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Chris uses simulation methodologies to study chemical properties and compounds related to permeability of medications — the passage of drugs from the gut through...

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Professor Alika Maunakea was named ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapterʻs ARCS Scientist of the Year in recognition of his groundbreaking work in epigenetics — gene-environment interactions that underlie disease development.

Funded by National Institutes of Health grants throughout his 20-plus year career, Dr. Maunakea has helped secure...

ARCS Honolulu welcomes Dr. Samuel "Sam" Shomaker, named dean of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoaʻs John A. Burns School of Medicine effective July 1.

A JABSOM alumnus who previously served as the schoolʻs vice dean and interim dean, Dr. Shomaker returns to Hawai‘i after serving as dean of the Austin...

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa PhD students in entomology and astronomy were named 2024 ARCS Scholars of the Year at the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Award Banquet held May 6. Mason Russo, who investigates hala scale and coconut rhinoceros beetles, and Nicholas Saunders, who has discovered more than...

Belated congratulations to veteran Hawai‘i astronomer Alan Tokunaga for being named a fellow of the Amerian Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Toknaga was recognized for achievements in teaching, research, adminstration and communication about science. He investigated the solar system and interstellar-medium as an astronomer at Honolulu partner University of...

ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter's 2024 ARCS Scholars will present their research in this free, open public symposium Saturday, April 20, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in POST Room 723 on the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa campus.

The interdisciplinary symposium will offer glimpses into a range of UH research—from use of...

Beyond the intrinsic value of understanding disease processes and seeking cures, biomedical research improves lives by stimulating the economy. Each dollar of research grant funding awarded by the National Institutes of Health in FY2023 generated $2.46 in economic activity, according to economic analysis by United for Medical Research. The $37.8 billion invested...

Christine Wilcox has always had an unbounded curiosity. At five years old, a teacher asked her what she liked to do for fun. Wilcox told her teacher, “I like to open the mouths of dead geckos to look at their tongues.”

“That is quintessentially me—I have always been a biologist,”...

Award-winning science communicator Dr. Christie Wilcox encourages fellow scientists to share their work with the general public, colleagues who might be doing similar experiments, and potential collaborators. “If you're not putting your science out there, how is anyone supposed to find it?" asks the 2012 Honolulu ARCS Scholar alumna, who has been...

Just moments after the National Board approved a new ARCS Sparks Award at its January meeting in Honolulu, ARCS National President Beth Wainwright bestowed the first one on Honolulu President Cheryl Ernst for organizing meeting sites and field trips for attendees.

The ARCS Sparks Award honors an ARCS member who exhibits...

The University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's Marine Biology PhD Program is the latest addition to ARCS Scholar Award programs. At its January 2024 meeting in Honolulu, the National Board okayed Marine Biology as an ARCS-approved discipline and approved UH's interdisciplinary program for ARCS Awards. They program is run jointly by UH...

In 1974, ARCS Foundation Los Angeles charter member Barbara Pauley invited prominent Honolulu women to the family's Honolulu property on the interior of Coconut Island in Kane‘ohe Bay to encourage establshment of a chapter in the islands. In keeping with ARCS' mission of advancine science, the family maintained close ties with...

Special guest speaker is ARCS Scholar alumna and University of Hawai‘i at Manoa visiting marine scientist Dr. Philoméne Verlaan, speaking on "The Crucial Role of Scientists in Environmental Protection at Global Scale: Examples from Seabed Mining and Marine Geoengineering." An oceanographer specializing in the biogeochemistry and ecology of deep-sea...

No worries! You can watch the recorded program at your leisure. The 1980s Honolulu ARCS Scholar and 2023 ARCS Scholar Hall of Fame inductee talks about how she got interested in astronomy, why a high school chorus class was critical to her success, and the emotions accompanying the James Webb Space...

Congratulations to Dr. Patrick Drupp on his promotion to director of climate policy for Sierra Club. The 2014 Honolulu ARCS Scholar joined the environmental non-profit in 2021 as deputy legislative director for climate and clean air. He studied marine geochemistry—focusing on the effects of climate change and ocean acidification on coral reef...

We are relieved to report that ARCS Honolulu member and Maui resident Alanna Bodenstab and her husband are safe in the wake of devastating wildfies on Maui Island. Two homes in Alanna's Kula neighborhood burned in the Upcountry Maui fire (over an hour's drive from the horrific blaze that leveled much...

Congratulations to the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa for a second consecutive year of record-setting research funding. The UH System received $516 million in extramural funding during FY2023—a $10 million jump over the previous year. The largest portion, nearly $343 million, was secured by the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, flagship...

Dr. Nicholas Krueger received the 2023 University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. The 2018 Honolulu ARCS Scholar (pictured with UH Hilo Chancellor Bonnie Irwin) is an instructor in the university's College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management, with experiise in tropical agronomy, tropical soils, and animal...

Honolulu ARCS Scholar and 2023 ARCS Alumni Hall of Fame inductee Heidi Hammel was among the scientists interviewed for a PBS NewsHour story marking the first anniversary of observations by the James Webb Space Telescope. View the interview on YouTube.

The telescope sees farther — by a few hundred million years...

Congratulations to the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's Dr. Ryuzo Yanagimachi, who received the prestigious 2023 Kyoto prize for biotechnology and medical technology. The professor emeritus of anatomy and reproductive deveoped pioneering invitro fertilization techniques that have enabled millions of people worldwide to bear children and directed the laboraory that produced...

2023 Scholar of the Year Sefa Muñoz was on Guam to do her research on green sea turtles when Typhoon Mawar struck. She has no power and extremely spotty internet after the strongest storm to hit the U.S. territory in two decades, but is thankful to have running water and minimal...

Congratulations to 2021 Maybelle F. Roth ARCS Scholar in Conservation Biology Manya Singh, who successfully defended her Botany PhD dissertation on Mechanisms and Mitigation of Soil Legacies in May. She has accepted a position with the US Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District as a biologist/study manager in the Environmental...

The University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's John A. Burns School of Medicine was ranked 16th in the nation by U.S. News and World Report for primary care. ARCS Honolulu Chapter supports the medical school with ARCS Awards for PhD students in Biomedical Sciences, Developmental and Reproductive Biology, and Tropical Medicine.

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University of Hawai‘i at Manoa PhD students in atmospheric sciences and marine biology were named 2023 ARCS Scholars of the Year at the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Award Banquet this month. Katherine Ackerman received the physical sciences honor for her studies of sea salt aerosols. Josefa Muñoz received he biological...

1996 ARCS Scholar Eric VanderWerf is relocating seabirds whose habitat lies just six feet above current sea level in a race against climate change. "Tern Island is washing away" as sea levels rise, the biologist told the Associated Press. Pacific Rim Conservation, the non-profit VanderWerf founded with his wife and fellow...

The University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's Life Sciences Building has been named in honor of 2000 ARCS Scientist of the Year Dr. Isabella Abbott. The late "Izzy" Abbott is known as "first lady of limu" for her pioneering work not only in identifying 200 species of limu (marine algae), but in...

Marine ecology expert and 2021 Honolulu Scientist of the Year Dr. Mark Hixon is the featured speaker for the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa’s College of Natural Sciences Pilina ‘Ao “Living Links” online talk series Wednesday Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. Hawai‘i Standard Time (5 p.m. PDT, 8 p.m. EDT).

He...

The American Association for Cancer Research has awarded Honolulu's ARCS Scientist of the Year Loïc Le Marchand its 2022 Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities. The University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Cancer Center researcher and interim director discussed cancer health disparities documented by the MultiEthnic Cohort Study at an...

Honolulu ARCS Scholar Alumna Dr. Heidi B. Hammel shares her front-line experience with the James Webb Space Telescope in a special online talk hosted by ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's Institute for Astronomy on Tuesday, September 13. The UH–trained astronomer has been one of six...

The Honolulu Chapter kicks off the 2022–2023 year with two talks—by Scholar Alumna Dr. Heidi Hammel on the James Webb Space Telescope Septmeber 13 and Scientist of the Year Dr. Rachel Novotny on Children's Healthy Living in the Pacific on October 18. Watch the events announcements page for details.

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2020 Honolulu ARCS Scholar Tristan McKenzie is co-author on a research paper suggesting that more than half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change. The list, which includes dengue, hepatitis, pneumonia, malaria and Zika, was published August 8 in Nature Climate Change. The team of University...

There's not a lot of funding dedicated to research on rainbows, but a passion for photography and the spiritual draw of the atmospheric phenomenon keeps University of Hawai‘i Professor Steven Businger on the chase.

The certified consulting meteorologist and ARCS Scholar advisor shared his knowledge—from ancient Greek and Hawaiian observations to...

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's John A. Burns School of Medicine is part of a $20 million, four-year national study tackling underrepresetation of some ethnic groups in clinical research trials. As one of 10 participating universities and health care systems surveying marginalized communities, UH Manoa will focus on Native Hawaiian...

2022 ARCS Scholar T.J. Corrigan's research on a devastating 2018 supercell thunderstorm over Kaua‘i was featured in The Honolulu Star Advertiser. The storm shattered a 40-year U.S. record for most rainfall during a 24-hour period and caused extensive flooding. Corrigan and his advisor, Dr. Steven Businger of the University of...

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Institute for Astronomy doctoral candidate Miles Lucas and John A. Burns School of Medicine PhD student Nicholas Kawasaki were named 2022 ARCS Scholars of the Year at ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter’s 2022 Scholar Awards Banquet on May 5. Lucas received the Jacquie Maly ARCS Scholar of...

Join ARCS Honolulu Chapter for a Pau Hana hybrid presentation by special guest Dr. Steven Businger, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa professor of atmospheric sciences, ARCS Scholar advisor and co-creator of the RainbowChase phone app, on Thursday, June 16.
Dr. Businger will share the physics behind the fascinating phenomenon of rainbows...

Meet the 20 remarkable UH graduate students who have been named ARCS Scholars and find out who will be named ARCS Honolulu Scholar of the Year at the 2022 Heart of Gold Fundraiser and
Scholar Awards Banquet on Monday, May 2 at Outrigger Canoe Club in Waikiki.

Postponsed by the pandemic...

Congratulations to ARCS Honolulu Chapter's partner institution, the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, on being reaffirmed for a full 10 years, the longest period possible, by the Senior College & University Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Read more.

Visit ARCS Honolulu Chapter's Ho-Ho-Holiday fundraiser online auction now through Nov. 28 because…

• You'll find unique items for adults and children including art, plants, handcrafted gifts, home decor, accessories and tasty treats (including the island's best lilikoi jelly!).
• You can shop safely and conveniently from the comfort of your home before...

Honolulu ARCS Scholar Dr. Anthony Amend has demonstrated that an easily and inexpensively produced smoothie can reduce damage from ‘Ohia rust in critically endangered native Hawaiian nioi plants. Amend, an associate professor of botany at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, used a blender to make a slurry from healthy wild...

Windward Community College Professor Emerita and Honolulu Chapter Co-President Jacquie Maly has issued a $10,000 matching challenge for the WCC Meals with a Mission drive to provide nourishment to students struggly to get by on scholarships. Jacquie, who also is a generous supporter of ARCS Scholar Awards, notes that the free...

We bid a sad farewell to long-time member and past president Sydney Pietsch Kenny, 74, who passed away in June at her Kane‘ohe home surrounded by family. “I joined ARCS because of the people I met; I stay active because of the work we do to support young scientists,” she said...

2019 ARCS Honolulu Scholar Shayle Matsuda has received a 2021 David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship, one of the nation’s premier postdoctoral programs in conservation science. Awarded by the Society for Conservation Biology and the Cedar Tree Foundation, the Smith Fellowship identifies and supports early-career scientists who will shape the growth...

Honolulu ARCS Scholar Alexandru Sasuclark received Best Poster Presentation at the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s 2021 Annual Biomedical Sciences and Health Disparities Symposium. The George and Virginia Starbuck ARCS Award receipient studies the role of selenium in development of particular neurons in the brain and the perineuronal net structures...

The orangeblack Hawaiian damselfly, once thought to be extinct on O‘ahu, may be closer to a comeback thanks to the efforts of 2006 ARCS Scholar Will Haines. The Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources research entomologist successfully reintroduced a population of the once ubiquitous endemic insect that play a key...

Congratulations to Honolulu Chapter partner University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, which has been selected to host the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research.

Funded with $210 million over five years, the center will conduct research and disseminate knowledge needed to predict environmental change, conserve coastal...

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Institute for Astronomy student Erica Molnar Bufanda was named Scholar of the Year during an online celebration of ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter’s 2021 ARCS Scholars in May.

Recipient of a George Orton and Mona Marie Elmore ARCS Award, Bufanda was selected by a panel of scientists...

Dr. Margo Vassar shares the latest information on women and cardiovascular disease in an ARCS Honolulu Pau Hana event co-hosted by the Universit of Hawaii at Manoa's John A. Burns School of Medicine. The live session will be held via Zoom on Thursday, February 4 at 5 p.m. Register for the...

Planets, like people, shrink with age. A team of astronomers led by Honolulu ARCS Scholar Travis Berger found that an intriguing class of Neptune-sized planets, especially those that receive more than 150 times the light that Earth receives from our Sun, lose their atmospheres over a billion years as they are...

According to family lore, 2-year-old Emily Levesque insisted on tagging along when her older brother went outside for a school assignment to watch Haley’s Comet pass near earth. She grew fussy, as toddlers do, until her parents pointed her toward the night sky. She was mesmerized.

And she still is.

The...

Honolulu Chapter life member Dr. Jacquie Maly was featured in the University of Hawai‘i Foundation’s Kupono magazine for her career and contributions to Windward Community College.

A summer enrichment program for high school science teachers brought her to Hawai‘i, where she was an integral founding faculty member of Windward's science faculty...

2011 Honolulu ARCS Scholar Jason Higa received the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's 2020 Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Recipient of the Ellen M. Koenig Award in Medicine and the Honolulu Chapter's 2011 Scholar of the Year, Jason  is an assistant professor in the Department of Anatomy, Biochemistry and...

Sergey Negrashov is an ARCS Scholar at University of Hawaii at Manoa, who graduated in May 2020 with a PhD in Information and Computer Science. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Hawaii, Sergey became aware of the severe shortage of protective masks available to healthcare workers and first responders in the...

2018 ARCS Scholar of the Year Chris Shuler gave the inaugural lecture on HaloCampus, a ground-breaking digital platform that streams 3D holograms of University of Hawai‘i faculty to American Samoa Community College classes in real-time. Chris, a Toby Lee ARCS Scholar in Earth Sciences, talked about his research on sustainable...

Honolulu life member Stephanie Laws and her husband Ed were featured in the University of Hawaii Foundation's 2018 annual report for establishing the Global Environmental Science Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship supports undergraduate students in the Global Enviornmental Science program in UH Manoa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST)...

The Honolulu Chapter and coral scientists around the world mourn the death of Dr. Ruth Gates, director of the Hawai‘i Institute for Marine Biology and president of the International Society for Reef Studies. Gates was named 2015 ARCS Honolulu Scientist of the Year for her groundbreaking research on coral reef resilience...

1989 Honolulu ARCS Scholar Luke Flynn has been named the University of Hawai‘i System's Employee of the Year for 2017. As director of the univesity’s Hawai‘i Space Flight Laboratory and Hawai‘i Space Grant Consortium, he has overseen development and launch of the university of Hawai‘i at Manoa’s first rocket and satellite...

From left: University of Hawai‘i President and UH Manoa Chancellor David Lassner, ARCS Scholars Will Best (2017) and Glen Chew (2016), UH Board of Regents Vice Chair Randy Moore at the campus awards ceremony

Two of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa’s top three graduate student researchers for 2017 are...

The Honolulu Chapter’s annual Hearts of Gold fundraiser featured butterflies, damsels in distress and an ARCS Scholar alum who is coming to their aid. Dr. Will Haines, who received the 2006 Maybelle F. Roth Award in Conservation Biology, described his efforts to increase populations of rare and endangered Hawaiian insects through...

2014 Honolulu ARCS Scholar of the Year Ryan Gough has received additional recognition. Gough, pictured with University of Hawai‘i Regent Randolph Moore, left, and UH Manoa Chancellor Robert Bley-Vroman, received the university’s 2016 Student Excellence in Research Award, its top honor for student researchers, for making fundamental advances in electrical engineering...

The Honolulu chapter welcomes new members on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 in Post Bulding Room 723 on the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa campus. Recent scholars Jourdan Posner, Robert Nakata and Erin Edkins will share updates on their research activities, and special guest Adrienne Copeland will discuss her marine science work...

University of Hawai‘i scholar Jouran Posner attended the Keystone Symposium on B Cells at the Intersection of Innate and Adaptive Immunity over the summer, thanks to funding from her ARCS/Roche Foundation Award in Medicine. She was invited to give a short talk on her research in addition to her poster presentation...

Planet Hunter is 2016 ARCS Scholar of the Year

An astronomy doctoral candidate whose software automated the search for small planets has been named the ARCS Foundation Honolulu 2016 Scholar of the Year. Benjamin “BJ” Fulton received the 2016 Columbia ARCS Award in Astronomy. He was one of 12 University of...

Glen M. Chew’s research has identified a way to “release the brakes” and reverse defects in viral-specific immune cells that keep them from killing HIV-infected cells. Chew received the Honolulu Chapter’s 2016 Koenig Award in Medicine.

“Our findings will give new directions to vaccines and therapies that will potentially reverse these...

Expansion of the Universe may be accelerating, but so is our understanding, thanks to R. Brent Tully, ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter’s 2016 Scientist of the Year. Tully is considered a father of modern observational cosmology for 40 years of doing “cosmology up close” at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa’s Institute...

ARCS Scholar Richard Ordonez was among the inaugural group of faculty members and graduate students recently inducted into the University of Hawai‘i chapter of the National Academy of Inventors. The organization honors investigtors who have obtained patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Ordonez received ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter’s 2014...

Preconditioning to increased ocean temperature and acidification might buy corals time in the race to survive climate change, ARCS Scholar Alumna Hollie Putnam reported in the August 2015 Journal of Experimental Biology. The University of Hawai‘i integrative biologist demonstrated that adult corals exposed to warmer, more acidic water produced offspring...

ARCS Scholar H. Jabran Zahid has received the Robert J. Trumpler Award, given by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific to recognize a recent PhD thesis considered unusually important to astronomy.

Zahid’s thesis work measured the chemical evolution of galaxies using existing and new data from large extragalactic surveys and compared...

Talk about fishy ailments. When he was an ARCS Scholar at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (in 1997–98), Chris Lowe's studies included how rays avoid sunburn. Now a professor of biological sciences at California State, Long Beach, he is still interested in sharks, but it was his work on...