Dorothy (Dottie) Lewis Simpson (11/27/1924 – 2/12/2018) was born in Bronxville, NY, to a family that strongly believed in the value of education. Her mother, Francis, graduated from Wellesley College in 1920 and her father, Harold, from West Point in 1918. Her parents knew that their two daughters were capable of...
I am delighted to invite you officially to the ARCS Foundation 2013 National Annual Meeting, “Science in Paradise: From the Depths of the Ocean to the Edge of the Universe,” in Honolulu, HI, May 29-June 1, 2013. The backdrop of the magnificent Pacific Ocean, the...
The National Website was launched in September 2011 and it’s amazing to realize that we will celebrate our 2nd anniversary this fall. What an achievement!! A very dedicated and resourceful team – the Information Strategies Committee – has established training modules, created a highly-functional “help” network among Chapter Data Administrators and Content Editors...
An economist whose investigations into student achievement examined the impact of rewards for good grades; a Pulitzer Prize winner who was the country’s 16th poet laureate; and a clinical psychologist seeking to pinpoint who is at risk...
Welcome to our new ARCS Foundation website and scholar database! The website project has been three years in the making and has taken many hours of time and commitment from our all-volunteer members. The process of migrating your scholar profile information to our new database has been...
The long awaited and newly designed ARCS Foundation website has been launched. Named Project Mercury, the new website represents the culmination of six months and countless hours of work by dozens of dedicated members of ARCS Foundation from every chapter across the country. By every measure, it is the very...