Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation - Seattle
Chapter
The
ARCS Foundation - Seattle Chapter provides recruitment fellowships totaling
$15,000, payable over three years at $5,000 per year, to graduate students
in the College of Veterinary Medicine and The Center for Reproductive
Biology. Because the fellowships are in addition to teaching and research
assistantships or any other awards, they substantially enhance WSU’s ability
to recruit outstanding graduate students. ARCS fellowships have proven
critical in persuading top graduate student applicants to enroll in programs
at WSU rather than in competing programs elsewhere. College of Veterinary
Medicine’s Dean Warwick Bayly proudly emphasizes that point, noting “Proof
of this is the fact that many of WSU’s graduate students in the College of
Veterinary Medicine who receive ARCS funding go on to attract additional
support like Ponson Awards and Mentored Clinical Scientist Development
Awards (MCSA) from the National Institutes of Health. No other veterinary
school in the U.S. has more MCSAs than does WSU and ARCS has helped a great
deal in this regard. “
Homer Adams III set his sights of furthering his education by
pursuing an advanced degree. To accomplish that goal, Adams enrolled in graduate
studies at Washington State University and was awarded an ARCS fellowship. He is
in his second year of an ARCS fellowship awarded through WSU’s Center for
Reproductive Biology and is focusing his research on the area of reproductive
physiology. His studies encompass the starting point of life and examine such
issues as the impact of age on fertility. Homer’s work utilizes cutting-edge
technology in gene therapy and touches transgenic animals, endangered species,
and genetic or hereditary diseases in humans.
ARCS Foundation, Inc.
is a national volunteer women’s organization dedicated to helping the best and
brightest U. S. graduate and undergraduate students by providing scholarships in
natural sciences, medicine, and engineering. ARCS Foundation began in 1958.
Established due to the aftermath of the Soviet launching of Sputnik, a group of
fifty-three women philanthropic leaders who were committed to reestablishing U.
S. technological superiority began giving financial awards to college students
majoring in science and engineering. WSU is committed to working with the
Seattle ARCS Chapter to attract more of the nation’s best graduate students. The
group has grown to twelve chapters nationwide, with more than 1,400 members, all
volunteer leaders in their communities. The ARCS Foundation supports graduate
student science fellowships at more than 50 research institutions in the U.S.
Seattle Chapter ARCS member Jacque Doane declares, “Supporting these research
students makes good economic sense. Scientific discoveries and technological
advances fuel the growth of our increasingly knowledge-based economy. In this
sense, by supporting graduate education, ARCS is also supporting the economic
advancement of this state.”
