Atlanta
Chapter
- 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.
- Donnell Award
- Ph.D. Student, Epidemiology
- Third Year ARCS Scholar
- Research Interest: health impacts of extreme weather events from climate change with a special emphasis on floods and droughts.
- Jeanne Berry Award
- Ph.D. Student, Chemistry
- Third Year ARCS Scholar
- Research Interests: method development for quantum chemistry in complex environments.
- Glenn Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Cancer Biology
- Third Year ARCS Scholar
- Research Interest: novel T and B cell cooperation in cancer immunotherapy.
- Gillin/Liss Award
- Ph.D. Student, Epidemiology
- Third Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interests: public health and infectious disease/HIV research.
- McGowan Award
- Ph.D. Student, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
- Third Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: understanding and combating the rise of bacterial antibiotic resistance.
- Herz Global Impact Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Immunology
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: tuberculosis pathogenesis and vaccine development.
- 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.
- 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.
- Klamon Impact Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis
- Third Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: lung tissue resident CD8+ T cells and their role in the immune response to respiratory pathogens.
- Reid/ARCS Award
- Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience
- Third Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: the relation of copper dysregulation and mitochondria to neurodegenerative disease.
- Goodhew/McGonigle Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology
- Third Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: the role of bacterial toxin-antitoxin complexes in bacterial survival and their influence on the ability of bacteria to survive stress. Julia seeks to identify the cellular targets of these toxins.
- 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.
- Leslie Petter ARCS Light Award
- Ph.D. Student, Epidemiology
- Third Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interests: policy, substance use, and reproductive and perinatal health.
- Bazzel/Lundeen Award
- Ph.D. Student, Molecular and Systems Pharmacology
- Third Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: to understand circuit-level control of decision-making. New knowledge could shed light on innate learning systems that are “hijacked” by drug abuse.
- Herz Global Impact Award
- M.D./Ph.D. Student, Biomedical Engineering
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: biomedical and clinical imaging applications with quantitative oblique back-illumination microscopy (qOBM), a label-free phase imaging technique.
- Sarah Eby-Ebersole Award
- Ph.D. Student, Biochemistry
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: the de novo design and characterization of lipid-binding proteins for immune modulation and diagnostic applications.
- David, Helen and Marian Woodward Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: planetary science, specifically the geology of Mars.
- Burke Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: how epigenetics shapes disease.
- Roche Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: developing drug delivery systems designed to better target tumors across different cancer types.
- Herz Global Impact Award
- Ph.D. Student, Biomedical Engineering
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: to develop a targeted drug delivery platform to treat lymphedema.
- HA (Gus) Peed Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Quantitative Biosciences
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: how anatomical structure and precisely-timed dynamics are interrelated in networks of biological neurons.
- Wahlen Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering, Robotics
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: applies deep learning to automate the quality control and measurement processes for staging liver fibrosis with magnetic resonance elastography.
- Mary Jo Peed/Joslin Award
- Ph.D. Student, Chemistry
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: multi-scale modeling of complex chemical systems to study reactions at solid/liquid interfaces.
- John and Mary Franklin Foundation Award
- Ph.D. Student, Aerospace Engineering
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: electrolysis for both oxygen generation for astronauts and hydrogen production on Earth.
- Swensson/ARCS Atlanta Century Award
- Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering in Mechanical Engineering
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: developing innovative nano-scale technologies to enhance the manufacturing and monitoring of cell-based therapeutics.
- Lim Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Ocean Science and Engineering
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: how bacteria can be beneficial to various host organisms such as marine microalgae in the open ocean and smooth cordgrass in coastal saltmarshes.
- Northside Hospital Award
- Ph.D. Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: leveraging spectroscopy to help answer spatial and mechanistic biology questions.
- Chambers/Jones Award
- Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interests: developing signal processing and machine learning solutions to better diagnose and understand neurodegenerative and psychiatric conditions.
- Van Leuvan Award
- Ph.D. Student, Mechanical Engineering
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: developing sustainable battery materials from natural polymers.
- Genuine Parts Award
- Applied Physics Major
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interests: enhancing efficiency through his interests in math and energy.
- Georgia-Pacific Award
- Biology Major
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interests: healthcare, medicine and studying the human body
- Graves Award
- Computer Science Major
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interests: computer coding, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
- 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.
- Hardin/Bankoff Award
- Applied Physics Major and Computer Engineering
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interests: robotics, STEM education, and applied physics
- Frazier/Whiting Award
- Mathematics/Physics Major
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interests: technology and aviation
- Davis Award
- Biology Major
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interests: regenerative engineering, 3-D printing, and prosthesis
- Taylor Award
- Chemistry Major
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interests: advancing cancer research through a multidisciplinary approach using next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics.
- Arrendale/Skinner Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Ecology
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: the symbiotic interactions of root-hemiparasitic plants, their host plants, and soil microbes.
- Boyd/Henry Award
- Ph.D. Student, Ecology
- Second 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.
- David, Helen and Marian Woodward Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Neuroscience
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: regeneration, stem cell function, and neuropeptide signaling.
- Dodson Award
- DVM/Ph.D. Student, Comparative Biomedical Sciences
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: comparative pathology and translational medicine, specifically, Cushing’s disease, an endocrine disorder, between canines and humans.
- Leake/ARCS Atlanta Century Award
- Ph.D. Student, Comparative Biomedical Sciences
- Third Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: understanding evolutionary and genetic mechanisms that cause the formation of new species.
- Burtchaell Award
- Ph.D. Student, Genetics
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: understanding how genes that control the crucial process of sex determination are regulated.
- ARCS Atlanta Century Award/McGonigle Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Biomedical Sciences
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: exploring stem cell trafficking to sites of injury.
- Roche Award
- Ph.D. Student, Biomedical Engineering
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: modifying current antibiotics to include nitric oxide, an endogenous gasotransmitter with antibacterial and antithrombotic properties, for broad-spectrum antimicrobial solutions.
- Northside Hospital Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: intersects epigenetics, cancer biology, and glycoscience to investigate how specific complex carbohydrates are regulated in our bodies and how dysregulation of these sugars can alter melanoma tumor growth and progression.
- Lundeen/Bazzel Award
- Ph.D. Student, Plant Biology
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, particularly in understanding its physiology and genetic mechanisms of the fungus pathogenicity.
- ARCS Atlanta Century Award
- Ph.D. Student, Microbiology
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: fungal genomics and its correlation to pathogenicity.
- Olchowski/Potter Award
- Ph.D. Student, Bioinformatics
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: studying microbial communities, using phenotypic data and deep learning to better understand carbon flux in the ocean in Earth’s changing climate.
- Dick Award
- Ph.D. Candidate, Genetics
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: pluripotent stem cell regulation in a freshwater flatworm, the planarian.
- Cooper/Mukharji Award
- Ph.D. Student, Regenerative Bioscience
- Second Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: delineating the neural network recovery mechanisms and the influence of sexually dimorphic neuroanatomy and development on functional recovery following traumatic brain injury.
- Hinkle Award
- Ph.D. Student, Comparative Biomedical Sciences
- First Year ARCS Scholar
- Research interest: understanding the molecular requirements for Zika virus infection in different cell types, as well as understanding how Zika replication is impacted by varying temperatures.
ARCS® Foundation Atlanta Chapter is honored to present the 2025-26 Scholar Awards to these outstanding candidates
from Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Morehouse College, and the University of Georgia.
Sarina AbrishamcarMeet Sarina here.
Aniruddha DeshpandeMeet Aniruddha here.
Ariel GaleMeet Ariel here.
Anna ColeMeet Anna here.
Nicole HoodMeet Nicole here.
Logan KavanaughMeet Logan here.
Louis HopkinsMeet Louis here.
Will McFaddenMeet Will here.
Vedhika RaghunathanMeet Vedhika here.
Cameron MattinglyMeet Cameron here.
Alicia LaneMeet Alicia here.
Julia TanquaryMeet Julia here.
Courtney VictorMeet Courtney here.
Simone WienMeet Simone here.
Sophie YountMeet Sophie here.
Srinidhi BharadwajMeet Srinidhi here.
Lily CapeciMeet Lily here.
Alivia EngMeet Alivia here.
Kierra FranklinMeet Kierra here.
Marrissa IzykowiczMeet Marrissa here.
Maya LevitanMeet Maya here.
Zachary MobilleMeet Zachary here.
Heriberto NievesMeet Heriberto here.
John PedersonMeet John here.
Theodore St. FrancisMeet Theodore here.
Gianna SlusherMeet Gianna here.
Read Gianna's research publications.
Maggie StraightMeet Maggie here.
Nathan TaylorMeet Nathan here.
Xavier VelezMeet Xavier here.
Matthew YenMeet Matthew here.
Jimmy CapelaMeet Jimmy here.
Ayden Clark-VealMeet Ayden here.
Ramiah CurryMeet Ramiah here.
Myles GoshaMeet Myles here.
Jacob JackMeet Jacob here.
Chavier McDanielMeet Chavier here.
Nicholas PittmanMeet Nicholas here.
Paschal UcheharaMeet Paschal here.
Jordan ArgettMeet Jordan here.
Christian BrownMeet Christian here.
Christina Endara-ArnoldMeet Christina here.
Saumya GadeMeet Saumya here.
Natalie GonzalezMeet Natalie here.
Jennifer McCannMeet Jennifer here.
Jordan ParkerMeet Jordan here.
Myddelton ParkerMeet Myddelton here.
Neil PatelMeet Neil here.
Tuyetnhu PhamMeet Tuyetnhu here.
Claire ReichardtMeet Claire here.
Damian Santiago-SosaMeet Damian here.
Skylar SettlesMeet Skylar here.
Moira TaberMeet Moira here.
Breanna TimaniMeet Breanna here.