Paula McNichols joined ARCS Metro Washington Chapter (ARCS MWC) in 1999 and is a lifetime member. We applaud Paula’s continued commitment to ARCS MWC and her many contributions to the chapter over the past 26 years!
Paula was invited to join ARCS by Gloria Driessnack. Gloria's husband, LTG “Whitey” Driessnack, was on the Board of Directors of...
ARCS MWC is excited to introduce our newest member, Carolyn Hayward-Williams. She is sponsored by her neighbor and longtime friend Patty Sparrell.
Carolyn has been married to her husband,Terry, for 29 years and they have two daughters. Carolyn is an electrical engineering graduate of Vanderbilt University and...
Prachi Shah - MWC Chapter Scholar 1st Year Scholar, PhD candidate
Biology Georgetown University
Research:
Memory and forgetting are highly regulated biological processes fundamental for animal survival in an ever-changing environment. This project aims to understand the neurobiological basis of retrograde amnesia induced by different insults. This research requires the...
Patrick Banner – MWC 55th Anniversary Scholar 1st Year Scholar, PhD candidate
Physics University of Maryland
Research:
This research spans atomic, optical, and detector physics. The primary research uses strongly interacting atoms to make light and matter interact in ways that can be used for both studies of fundamental few-body...
DaVonne Henry – Hesse Endowment Scholar 1st Year Scholar, PhD candidate
Physics Georgetown University
Research:
Combining single-molecule magnets (SMMs) with graphene nanodevices can lead to high-density data storage or quantum computing applications. Using nanofabrication techniques, I create highly responsive devices that can be used to perform measurements on SMMs. Electrical...
ARCS MWC welcomes new member Ming Ward! Ming joined in January and is sponsored by Chi Pham.
Ming earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. She began her career...
Emily Cheung – MWC Endowment Scholar 1st Year Scholar, PhD candidate
Biomedical Engineering George Washington University
Research:
To develop a novel therapy that provides targeted activation of specific neuron populations in the brain to mitigate progression of cardiovascular diseases that have higher prevalence in women. I use high-speed optical mapping techniques...
ARCS MWC Scholar Emma Glass was featured in the March edition of the ARCS National newsletter! The article highlights her research using genome sequences of all known bacterial pathogens to create metabolic models of each one through a computational pipeline that she developed. Emma is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering...
Our annual fundraising event, the Eagle Award presentation on Apr 4, was amazing! The more than 82 attendees had fun, the venue was fantastic, and the auction and the paddle events alone raised over $45,000! Additional donations were made before and after the evening, which are still...
