Current Scholars 2024-2025

Meet Jimmy here.

• Genuine Parts Award     
• Applied Physics Major
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interests: enhancing efficiency through his interests in math and energy.

Meet Ayden here.

• Georgia-Pacific Award
• Biology Major
• Second Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interests: healthcare, medicine and studying the human body

Meet Ramiah here.

• Graves Award
• Computer Science Major
• Second Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interests: computer coding, artificial intelligence, and machine learning

Meet Myles here.

• Glenn Leadership Award
• Biology Major
• Second Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: to explore the relationship between behavior and the use of pharmaceuticals to understand the complexities of addiction.

Meet Jacob here.

• Hardin/Bankoff Award    
• Applied Physics Major and Computer Engineering
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interests: robotics, STEM education, and applied physics

Meet Chavier here.

• Frazier/Whiting Award    
• Mathematics/Physics Major
• Second Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interests: technology and aviation

Meet Paschal here.

• Taylor Award        
• Chemistry Major
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interests: advancing cancer research through a multidisciplinary approach using next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics.

Meet Nicholas here.

• Davis Award
• Biology Major
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interests: regenerative engineering, 3-D printing, and prosthesis

Meet Noam here.

• Herz Global Impact Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Biology
• Third Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: to understand the processes that drive coral reef decline and recovery.

Meet Anjana here.

• Northside Hospital Award
• Ph.D. Student, Biomedical Engineering
• Third Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: leveraging and applying microfluidic techniques to develop low-cost diagnostic devices. 

Meet Alivia here.

• David, Helen and Marian Woodward Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• First Year ARCS Scholar 
• Research interest: planetary science, specifically the geology of Mars.

Meet Kierra here.

• Burke Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: how epigenetics shapes disease.

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Meet Marrissa here.

• Roche Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Chemistry and Biochemistry
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: developing drug delivery systems designed to better target tumors across different cancer types.

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Meet Tawfik here.

• Boice/Reid Award
• Ph.D. Student, Biomedical Engineering
• Third Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: The mechanics of the heart, specifically, simulating computationally the mechanical changes in the heart of patients with heart failure to help predict early stages of heart failure.

Meet Zachary here.

• HA (Gus) Peed Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Quantitative Biosciences
• First Year ARCS Scholar 
• Research interest: how anatomical structure and precisely-timed dynamics are interrelated in networks of biological neurons.

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Meet Heriberto here.

• Wahlen Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering, Robotics
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: applies deep learning to automate the quality control and measurement processes for staging liver fibrosis with magnetic resonance elastography.

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Meet John here.

• Mary Jo Peed/Joslin Award
• Ph.D. Student, Chemistry
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: multi-scale modeling of complex chemical systems to study reactions at solid/liquid interfaces.

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Meet Theodore here.

• ARCS Atlanta Century Award
• Ph.D. Student, Aerospace Engineering
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: electrolysis for both oxygen generation for astronauts and hydrogen production on Earth.

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Meet Gianna here.

• Swensson/ARCS Atlanta Century Award
• Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering in Mechanical Engineering
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: developing innovative nano-scale technologies to enhance the manufacturing and monitoring of cell-based therapeutics.

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Meet Cassandra here.

• Chambers/Jones Award
• Ph.D. Student, Quantitative Biosciences in Biological Sciences
• Third Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: comparative biomechanics, specifically mammalian climbing mechanics, with an emphasis on conservation applications.

Meet KC here.

• Herz Global Impact Award
• Ph.D. Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Third Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: the neural mechanisms of impaired sensory processing in a human-relevant mouse model of autism spectrum disorder.

Meet Emmy here.

• Lim Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• Second Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interests: the geologic history of the planet Mars, specifically how spectroscopy, field analogue studies, and in situ Martian data can be coupled to reconstruct ancient environments.

Meet Naoki here.

• Dodson Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Robotics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Third Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: developing intelligent robots that can assist the elderly and disabled in home environments.

Meet Jordan here.

• Arrendale/Skinner Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Ecology
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: to understand key pathways by which parasitic plants drive diversity and how this may be translated to optimize crop production and conserve grassland ecosystems.  

Meet Christian here.

• ARCS Atlanta Century Award
• Ph.D. Student, Ecology
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: using a combination of large-scale field experiments at research forests along with mathematical modeling to better understand tree species distribution shifts under ongoing climate change.

Meet Christina here.

• David, Helen and Marian Woodward Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Neuroscience
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: regeneration, stem cell function, and neuropeptide signaling.

Meet Reagan here.

• Herz Global Impact Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Third Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: discovering how a novel antimalarial works to kill the malaria parasite by elucidating the targets of this antimalarial.

Meet Natalie here.

• Leake/Parsons/ARCS Atlanta Century Award
• Ph.D. Student, Genetics
• Second Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: understanding the genetic and evolutionary mechanisms behind reproductive isolation in closely related species of yellow monkeyflowers 

Meet Jennifer here.

• Burtchaell  Award
• Ph.D. Student, Genetics
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: understanding how genes that control the crucial process of sex determination are regulated.  

Meet Jordan here.

• McGonigle/Boyd Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Biomedical Sciences
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: exploring stem cell trafficking to sites of injury.

Meet Myddelton here.

• Roche Award
• Ph.D. Student, Biomedical Engineering
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: to develop a new approach and treatment that overcomes antibiotic resistance.

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Meet Neil here.

• Northside Hospital Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: how specific complex carbohydrates are regulated in our bodies and how alterations in these sugars can potentially tune tumor growth and progression.

Meet Tuyetnhu here.

• Lundeen/Bazzel Award
• Ph.D. Student, Plant Biology
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: improving current therapy for fungal meningitis using a targeted drug delivery approach and to develop a novel vaccine to prevent severity of infection.

Meet Mariah here.

• Herz Global Impact Award
• Ph.D. Student, Bioinformatics
• Third Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: disease modeling, with a focus on forecasting using both statistical approaches as well as deep learning techniques.

Meet Damian here.

• Olchowski/Potter Award
• Ph.D. Student, Bioinformatics
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest:  using deep learning models to uncover complex relationships between marine microbes’ role and the carbon flux.

Meet Colleen here.

• Dick Award
• Ph.D. Student, Infectious Diseases
• Third Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: host-pathogen interactions between infants and the bacteria responsible for whooping cough.

Meet Moira here.

• Cooper/Mukharji Award
• Ph.D. Student, Regenerative Bioscience
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: traumatic brain injury (TBI) recovery mechanisms in a porcine pre-clinical translational model.  Specifically, delineating the neural network recovery mechanisms and influence of sexually dimorphic neuroanatomy and development on cognitive, behavioral, and motor function outcomes following TBI.

Meet Matthew here.

• Dick Award
• Ph.D. Student, Comparative Biomedical Sciences
• Third Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: the mechanisms of genetic sex determination using threespine stickleback fish. 

Meet Sarina here.

• Northside Hospital Award
• Ph.D. Student, Epidemiology
• Second Year ARCS Scholar
• Research Interest: how prenatal environmental and psychosocial exposures affect child health outcomes through genomic mechanisms. 

Meet Anna here.

• Glenn Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Cancer Biology
• Third Year ARCS Scholar
• Research Interest: novel T and B cell cooperation in cancer immunotherapy.

Meet Reem here.

• Doyle/Easterly Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Chemistry
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research Interest: the total synthesis of natural products and the design of novel, non-addictive compounds to advance drug development for neuropathic pain.

Meet Elise here.

• Roche Award
• Ph.D. Student, Chemistry
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research Interests: bacterial virulence processes

Meet Lina here.

• McGowan Award
• Ph.D. Student, Epidemiology 
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interests: the impact of environmental and psychosocial exposures on neuropsychiatric outcomes.

Meet Louis here.

• Herz Global Impact Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Immunology
• Second Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: tuberculosis pathogenesis and vaccine development.

Meet Nasab here.

• David, Helen and Marian Woodward Award
• Ph.D. Student, Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: using mouse models to understand mitochondrial metabolism and cell death in cardiac disease.

Meet Nuri here.

• Donnell Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: using spinal cord organoid models of ALS to study motor neuron degeneration.

Meet Sydney here.

• Petter Award
• Ph.D. Student, Cancer Biology
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: how metabolic reprogramming confers chemo-immunotherapy resistance in lung cancer.

Meet Will here.

• Klamon Impact Award
• Ph.D. Student, Biochemistry, Cell, and Developmental Biology
• Third Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: novel antiretroviral compounds with the potential for treating HIV-1 infection.

Meet Vedhika here.

• Herz Global Impact Award
• Ph.D. Student, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
• Second Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: to understand the antigenic evolution of influenza A virus in the context of pre-existing immunity.

Meet John here.

• ARCS Atlanta Century Award
• Ph.D. Student, Chemistry
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: detecting biological metabolites that promote disease progression.

Meet Courtney here.

• Klamon/ARCS Award
• Ph.D. Student, Environmental Health Sciences
• Third Year ARCS Scholar
• Research Interest: understanding the impact of water quality on health among children in low-resource settings.

Meet Kaylin here.

• Gillin/Liss Award
• Ph.D. Candidate, Epidemiology
• First Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interests: social determinants and racial disparities in sleep and subsequent health outcomes where sleep is implicated.

Meet Simone here.

• Leslie Petter ARCS Light Award
• Ph.D. Student, Epidemiology
• Third Year ARCS Scholar
• Research interest: tpolicy, substance use, and reproductive and perinatal health.