Hope Hauptmann is this year’s Danaher Foundation ARCS Scholar. In the Department of Environmental Systems at the University of California, Merced, Hope’s focus is on clean drinking water for all. There are chemicals in California’s groundwater, and while cities have systems to treat the water, small rural communities and households using...
Those who attended ARCS NCC’s Annual Meeting heard Matthew give a fascinating presentation on his lab’s experiments with electrochemical stripping for nitrogen recovery from water polluted by pesticide run-off, using last year’s algal blooms and fish die-offs around the San Francisco Bay as examples. Matthew earned his B.S. in chemical engineering...
ARCS volunteers say they’d like to help more students like 2022-23 ARCS Foundation scholar Jon Aguiñaga, who is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the Population Biology graduate group at UC Davis.
Aguiñaga is a first-generation Mexican-American student who is the first in his family to graduate college, earn a master’s, and...
