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Dear ARCS MWC Members,

As my second year as Co-President with Julie Hohl draws to an exciting close, I continue to be energized by the momentum we’ve built—and you, the members, who have made it possible. Attendance at MWC activities has steadily grown. We’ve added new activities (e.g. Sr Member Tea...

Dear ARCS MWC Members,

April was a busy month! There were numerous highlights, from the Eagle Award Celebration to the five university visits. The university visits allowed us to see firsthand the amazing talents of our scholars and the appreciation of our university partners. Special thanks to Michelle Francis for organizing...

Joan Jordano was sponsored as an ARCS MWC member by Margie Shanklin in 1988. We thank Joan for her continued membership in ARCS MWC and applaud her for her ongoing commitment and many contributions to our chapter over the past 37 years! 

Joan’s commitment to volunteering led her to ARCS MWC...

Per our bylaws, the proposed candidates for the Board of Directors 2025-26 should be distributed to all the Members no later than six weeks prior to the Chapter's Spring Annual Meeting, which is May 15 this year.

Many thanks to these Members, who have pledged their time and talents to...

Dear ARCS MWC Members,

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...

The stars glittered at the ARCS MWC Eagle Award Celebration on Fri, Apr 4, 2025, at the illustrious Army and Navy Club in Washington, DC! 

Patty Sparrell and Julie Hohl, MWC Co-Presidents, bookended the cosmic cohort of speakers:

Our chapter's 2025 Eagle Awardee Dr. John Mather, a Nobel Laureate...

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...

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...

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...

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...