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...
ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter’s 2017 Scientist of the Year Richard Yanagihara will discuss Hantaviruses: A Personal Journey of Discovery and New Begninnings at a free pauhana talk beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 14, 2017 in the Agricultural Sciences Building on the UH Manoa campus.
Hantaviruses are a relatively newly...
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...
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...
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...
First hypothesized in 1933, dark matter is believed to make up a little more than a quarter of all the matter in the universe. It cannot be seen, but its presence is inferred from the gravitational affect it has on the smaller quantity of visible matter. A promising candidate for the...
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...
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
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.