WELCOME
“ARCS SUPERNOVA 2023: Where Scholars are the Stars.”
This ARCS Foundation Northern California Chapter (NCC) signature event supports the ARCS mission while celebrating ARCS Scholars as emerging scientists, raising the visibility of their cutting-edge research, and providing them with public speaking opportunities. SUPERNOVA provides supporters of ARCS Scholars with interesting and educational opportunities to interact with them.
The 83 ARCS NCC Scholars for the current academic year are US citizens selected from 100 departments at the seven universities that are our academic partners: San Francisco State University, Stanford University, and the University of California campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Merced, San Francisco and Santa Cruz. See the poster halls below for an in-depth look at the scholars’ work.
This year’s Symposium features 4 roundtable discussions on social and philosophical issues and the emerging science of AI and Climate and Sustainability. The discussions feature as panelists ARCS Scholars from this academic year and moderators who are industry and science education leaders.
SYMPOSIUM 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
STIMULATING ROUNDTABLES | SCHOLAR PRESENTATIONS
SCHOLAR PRESENTATIONS
Artificial Intelligence: Social and Philosophical Issues
Moderators:
Rashmi Misra
GM AI & Emerging Technologies, Business Development at Microsoft.
Sirisha Kadamalakalva
Managing Director, Software | Global Head of Artificial Intelligence, Citi Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory.
ARCS Scholar Panelists:
Kate Montana, SFSU
Reilly Raab, UC Santa Cruz
Carolyn Smith Hughes, UC San Francisco
Lilia Baldauf, UC Davis.
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Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Sciences
Moderators:
Rashmi Misra
GM AI & Emerging Technologies, Business Development at Microsoft.
Sirisha Kadamalakalva
Managing Director, Software | Global Head of Artificial Intelligence, Citi Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory.
ARCS Scholar Panelists:
Kateryna Voitiuk, UC Santa Cruz
Lekha Patil, SFSU
Manuela Richter, UC San Francisco
Micah Swann, UC Davis
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Climate and Sustainability: Social and Philosophical Issues
Moderator:
Greg Dalton
Founder, Climate One and Host of “Climate One” from the Commonwealth Club
ARCS Scholar Panelists:
Laney Casella, UC Davis
Joey Murphy, UC Santa Cruz
Rachelle Stark, UC Berkeley
Alauna Wheeler, UC Merced
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Climate and Sustainability: Emerging Sciences
Moderators:
Jean-Pierre Delplanque
Vice Provost, Graduate Education and Dean, Graduate Studies at UC Davis.
Jenny Suckale
Assistant Professor, Geophysics, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
ARCS Scholar Panelists:
Jackie Galvez, UC Berkeley
Matthew Liu, Stanford
Carolyn Schwartz, SFSU
Chase Stevens, UC Davis
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POSTER HALLS
POSTER HALL 1:
Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
POSTER HALL 2:
Climate, Environment & Ecology
POSTER HALL 3:
Bioengineering
POSTER HALL 4:
Physics, Math & Astronomy
POSTER HALL 5:
Cell, Micro & Molecular Biology
POSTER HALL 6:
Engineering
POSTER HALL 7:
Agriculture, Animal Science & Biology
POSTER HALL 8:
Ocean & Earth Sciences
POSTER HALL 9:
Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biophysics & Neuroscience
POSTER HALL 10:
Pharmacology & Physiology
WHAT PREVIOUS YEARS' SCHOLARS ARE SAYING...
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I’m honored to be a 2021-2022 ARCS scholar. This award helped fund my move across the country and pay for tuition at my dream graduate program—the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program. Thanks to the ARCS Foundation’s support, I will have the education and alumni network to successfully launch my science journalism career. I’m now one step closer to achieving my goals of making science more accessible, investigating issues of bioethics, and evolving artistic forms of journalism.
McKenzie Prillaman
University of California, Santa Cruz
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I am honored to be recognized as an ARCS scholar. ARCS seeks to sponsor bright students with the goal of fostering the next generation of scientific progress. As a young scientist, constantly wrestling with self-doubt and imposter syndrome, recognition by such an acclaimed organization gives me confidence that I am on the right track in my scientific career. ARCS sees my potential as a scientist, and I am so very grateful that the support of ARCS foundation provides me the flexibility to pursue my scientific interests.
Peter Andrew
University of California, Davis
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As a graduate student in a new lab, funding from the ARCS award alleviated strain on myself and my mentor, allowing us to gather important data instead of focusing all our time on seeking funding. I have been able to perform experiments which are not only fundamental to my PhD work but lay the groundwork for future students to come. This data will allow us to develop improved innate immunotherapeutics which balance the need for affordability and specificity to the individual.
Regan Volk
University of California, San Francisco
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Without ARCS, I could have faced funding instability, jeopardizing my ability to stay in the Bay Area and learn from some of the best scientists in the world. I see the ARCS award as an investment in my future as a scientist, and I’m grateful to the ARCS donors and organizers for supporting young scholars like myself for over fifty years.
Abigal “Abby” Harris
University of California, Berkeley
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ABOUT THE SCHOLAR SYMPOSIUM
The first ARCS Northern California Chapter (NCC) Scholar Symposium was held in 2015. Now in its 9th year, it has evolved and merged with our annual Scholar Celebration into this incredible combined Scholar Celebration and Symposium event.
The event is part of the ARCS Scholar Award Program, our annual initiative to support the research endeavors of exceptional graduate students at our seven partner universities. The Scholar Award Program enables scholars to give maximum attention to their research by receiving meaningful scholar awards, raises the visibility of ARCS Scholars’ research, increases ARCS Scholars’ science communication skills, and connects ARCS Scholars to industry and to each other.