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Events Highlights

Recent ARCS Events

  • STEM Catalyst Awards 2013

    STEM Collaborative Partnerships Award Recipients led by William Hogarth, Ph.D. at the STEM Catalyst Awards on February 9, 2013 in St. Petersburg, Florida. (Left to right) Back row: Ethan Goddard, USF; David Hastings, Ph.D. Eckerd College; David Naar, Ph.D., USF; David Hollander, Ph.D., USF; Ernst Peebles, Ph.D., USF; John Paul, Ph.D., USF; and USF System Senior Vice President Karen Holbrook; Front row: USFSP Interim Chancellor/FIO Director Bill Hogarth, Ph.D.; USF Provost Ralph Wilcox; Robert Walker, FIO; Vickie Chachere, USF;  Steve Murawski, Ph.D., NOAA; Chuanmin Hu, Ph.D., USF; and Kendra Daly, Ph.D., USF.  Not present: United States Coast Guard, USF President Judy Genshaft, Kara Radabaugh, Gil McRae, Robert Weisberg, Ph.D., Brendon Baumeister, David Coy, Thomas Lee, George Guthro, William Slee, Andrew Remsen, Ph.D.

  • Four ARCS Scholars at STEM Catalyst Awards 2013

    Inna Fedorenko, ARCS Scholar researching Melonoma; Melissa Buckley researching Ovarian Cancer; Heidi Toomey researching in Marine Science; and Maria Vega-Rodriguez reseaching in Marine Science at University of South Florida.

  • STEM Collaborative Partnerships Award 2013 - Gulf Oil Spill First Responders

    Led by William Hogarth, Ph.D., (left) the Gulf Oil Spill First Responders receive their STEM Collaborative Partnerships Award 2013 from ARCS Foundation in Florida.

  • Peter Gets Chocolate Shoes from USF College of Marine Science

    Peter Betzer receives specially made chocolate shoes in honor of his STEM Visionary Catalyst Award from Mya Breitbart, Ph.D. and Robert Byrne, Ph.D. of USF College of Marine Science.

  • Robert Byrne, Ph.D. receives STEM Innovation & Research Award from Larry Langebrake of SRI

    Larry Langebrake gives to Robert Byrne, Ph.D., the STEM Innovation & Research Award 2013

  • Hazel Hough, Anne Von Rosenstiel, Julie Gillespie and Wilma Fowler

    Hazel Hough, Anne Von Rosenstiel, Julie Gillespie and Wilma Fowler at STEM Catalyst Awards 2013 by ARCS Foundation in Florida

  • ARCS Visionary Catalyst Award 2013

    ARCS Visionary Catalyst Award 2013 created specially by Artist Duncan McClellan for Peter Betzer, Ph.D.

  • Jackie and Tim Dixon with Bill and Mary Hogarth

    USF College of Marine Science Dean Jackie Dixon, Ph.D. and Tim Dixon, Ph.D. with Mary and Bill Hogarth, Ph.D., Interim Chancellor of USFSP/FIO Director who led the Gulf Oil Spill First Responders and received the STEM Collaborative Partnerships Award.

  • Helen Levine and Katee Tully with Peter and Katherine Betzer

    USFSP Vice Chancelor Helen Levine, Ph.D. and Katee Tully with Peter Betzer, Ph.D. and his daughter Katherine Betzer who flew in for this special event honoring Peter with the STEM Visionary Catalyst Award 2013.

  • Chris and Juli Steinocher of St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce

    Juli and Chris Steinocher, President & CEO of St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce at STEM Catalyst Awards 2013 by ARCS Foundation

  • Paul and Lee Krueger at STEM Catalyst Awards 2013

    Paul and Lee Krueger, ARCS Member, at STEM Catalyst Awards 2013 

  • Susan Churuti and Kathy Betancourt at STEM Catalyst Awards 2013

    Susan Churuti, Founding Attorney for ARCS Foundation in Florida, with Kathy Betancourt at STEM Catalyst Awards 2013

  • ARCS Scholar Melissa Buckley and her family

    ARCS Scholar Melissa Buckley shown here with her parents, Kelly and Harry Price, and her husband Kip Buckley at the STEM Catalyst Awards 2013.  Melissa is researching Ovarian Cancer and is an ARCS Scholar for 2010, 2011 an 2012.

  • Reception for STEM Catalyst Awards 2013

    Attendees enjoying the reception at STEM Catalyst Awards 2013

  • STEM Catalyst Awards 2013 Reception

    Reception for STEM Catalyst Awards 2013

  • STEM Catalyst Awards 2013 Reception

    ARCS Foundation sponsored the STEM Catalyst Awards 2013

  • Norm Dobiesz at STEM Catalyst Awards

    Norm Dobiesz attending STEM Catalyst Awards with friends

  • Betzer Family - Daughter, Mother-in-law, and Sister Cheering Peter Betzer

    Katherine Betzer, daughter; Mary Beers, Peter's Mother-in-law; and Connie Roop, Peter's Sister cheer on Peter getting STEM Visionary Catalyst Award, with Larry Langebrake and Harry Glenn in the background

Melissa Price receives the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award

Melissa Price (ARCS Scholar Tampa Bay), a USF cancer cell biology graduate student and member of Dr. Alvaro Monteiro’s lab at Moffitt, has been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellows. This National Institutes of Health award is considered one of the most competitive predoctoral fellowships available. (September 2012).
 

Pam Hallock Muller - Mentor of the Year

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Hallock Muller, professor in the College of Marine Science, on her selection as the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Minority PhD Program’s Mentor of the Year during the Compact for Faculty Diversity/Institute on Teaching and Mentoring Conference held October 25-28, in Tampa, FL.  Dr. Hallock Muller is the director of the Coral Reef Indicators Lab and was nominated by Michael Martinez-Colón, a doctoral student in her research group.
 
Each year, only one faculty advisor from Sloan programs throughout the nation is selected for “demonstrated excellence in mentoring, contributions to increasing diversity and meeting other goals of the Compact’s Mission”.  

Dr. Hallock Muller is a Founding Member of ARCS Foundation Tampa Bay and is an ARCS Scholar (Hawaii).

Melissa Price – Cancer Biology

"I have just completed the Eukaryotic Gene Expression Course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories and I would like to thank you for allowing me to have this amazing experience.....This course has provided useful knowledge that I will continue to use to search for a cure for cancer.