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...
ARCS Foundation Honolulu is hosting a free workshop on Oct. 28 to help graduate students their scholarly work in ways that engage the lay audience.
The program features award winning science blogger (and 2013 ARCS Scholar) Christie Wilcox on using social media, public education specialist Judy Lemus on creating interest and...
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...
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 Foundation Honolulu Chapter presented 11 scholar awards during its annual awards banquet at the Outrigger Canoe Club in May. Meet the scholars. Recipients included Scholar of the Year Ruthsenne Perron, who is part of a team testing a novel cardio-pulmonary stethoscope based on microwave technology that monitors lung water...
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...
Honolulu Chapter President Cheryl Ernst, fourth from left, was among the guests at recent the University of Hawai‘i Foundation Scholarship Celebration bringing donors together with the University of Hawai‘i students who benefit from their gifts.
The theme for the evening was on the sciences, with both student and faculty speakers talking...
Ryan Gough, ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter’s 2014 Scholar of the Year, is replacing etched PC boards with liquid metal elements in modern electronic devices to make them more adaptable.
Joining him as 2014 Honolulu ARCS Scholars are a potential future astronaut, a former gymnast who hopes to keep bridges from tumbling...
Preconditioning to increased ocean temperature and acidification might buy corals time in the race to survive climate change, ARCS Scholar Alumna 
ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter presented 11 scholar awards during its annual awards banquet at the Outrigger Canoe Club in May. 
Zahid’s thesis work measured the chemical evolution of galaxies using existing and new data from large extragalactic surveys and compared...
