Alecia Septer was an ARCS Scholar at the University of Georgia during the 2010-2012 academic years. Following completion of her Ph.D. degree, Dr. Septer moved to Cambridge, MA, and Harvard University, where she is a Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Molecular
Jill Glausier was an ARCS Scholar at Emory University during the 2006-2008 academic years. Upon completion of her Ph.D., Dr. Glausier accepted an offer as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Translational Neuroscience Program at the University of Pittsburgh under the mentorship of Dr. David Lewis. Dr. Lewis’s laboratory is world renowned for... Read more
Dr. Kimberly Dougherty received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Emory University in 2006 and is currently a senior “postdoc” in Ole Kiehn’s laboratory in the Neuroscience Department at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
Dr. Dougherty's research is “focused on neurons in the spinal cord that are involved in walking.” She has co-authored... Read more
Kenneth Lyons, Jr., a recent two-year ARCS Foundation Atlanta Scholar at Morehouse College and a second-year graduate student in the Material Science and Engineering (MSE) Ph.D. program at Cornell University, was recently singled out as Student of the Month.
A chemist by training, his research focuses on the self assembly of photonic structures from... Read more
Jamaji Chilaka Nwanaji-Enwerem, a biology major, was recognized as Morehouse College's 2012 valedictorian during the school's 128th commencement. Jamanji was the Kathy and Dennis Berry ARCS Scholar for 2010-2012. In his thank you note, he wrote: "I am confident that the biological sciences are one tool that I will use... Read more
Georgia Tech ARCS Scholar Daniel Dadush was selected as the winner of the 2011 INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize for his paper "On the Chvatal-Gomory Closure of a compact Convext Set," co-authored with Santanu S. Dey and Juan Pablo Vielma. The prize is awarded annually at the INFORMS Fall... Read more
