ARCS Foundation Atlanta Chapter held its annual meeting and luncheon on May 13 at the Piedmont Driving Club. The traditional close to the year began with Chapter President, Jane Dolinger, congratulating the 2014-2015 Board members on a job well done: “Each committee report illustrates once again how dynamic, productive, and successful our Chapter is at building support for outstanding scholars in science and technology.”
The highlight of the event consisted of brief presentations by four of Atlanta Chapter’s current scholars, each representing a different academic partner. Jessica Knight of Emory University, talked about her research on the long-term effects of congenital heart disease. Temi Olubanjo, a fourth year electrical engineering student at Georgia
Tech, reported on her work toward developing of a piece of “wearable technology” that will be able to estimate the amount and texture of food being consumed to assist in reaching a healthy balance between energy intake and expenditure. Steven Summers, a chemistry major who graduates from Morehouse College this year, described a summer research project which focused on a peptide hormone known to regulate body weight and appetite, and play a role in the regulation of autonomic physiological activities that control blood pressure. Finally, Farah Samli, a first year ARCS scholar studying infectious disease at the University of Georgia, has focused her research on vaccines.
