Dr. Cecinio (Nikko) Ronquillo chief resident in the Department of Ophthalmology at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah and Utah ARCS Scholar 2015 was awarded a Heed Fellowship for 2019-2020. A Heed Fellowship is one of the most prestigious honors for ophthalmology trainees. The Heed... Read more
Jocelyn Todd, an ARCS Foundation Utah Chapter Scholar from 2015-16, is pursuing her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah. In addition to her work analyzing mechanics of cartilage in the hip to shed light on risk factors of osteoarthritis progression, she is an elite runner and has... Read more
Professor Emeritus Noel de Nevers, who died Jan 4, 2019 at his home in Salt Lake City, was a respected teacher and good friend to the ARCS Community. His wife, Klancy, is a founding member of the ARCS Foundation Utah Chapter and Noel was the personal friend of many ARCS... Read more
Alex Jafek Utah ARCS Scholar 2016-2017, recently attended the Twenty Second International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2018) in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. At the conference Jafek presented his work entitiled "Motile sperm selection using Dean flow lead to better pregnancy outcomes". Alex was accompanied on his... Read more
Rebekah Gensure, Utah ARCS Scholar, recently presented her work a the ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) conference in Hawaii. Rebekah is in her second year of ophthalmology residency at the Moran Eye Center. Using the fluorescence lifetime imaging ophthalmoscopy (FLIO) system, Dr. Gensure has been working with... Read more
At the 2018 ARCS Scholar Awards Luncheon the chapter celebrated 10 years of ARCS in Utah. Prior to the luncheon, Vice President of Scholar Outreach, Dr. Anne Erickson worked to contact each of the Utah Scholars. Using information from the scholars a slide show with brief scholar... Read more
The 2018 Annual Utah Scholar Awards Luncheon was held October 17, 2018 at the John A. Moran Eye Center. Members, scholars and friends of ARCS were on hand to hear from two of our second year ARCS Scholars, Dr. Bradley Jacobsen and Samuel Sprawls. Awards were presented to (shown left... Read more
Each year, millions of couples in the United States and around the world struggle with infertility. For these couples, assisted reproductive technologies (ART) including in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and intrauterine insemination (IUI) play a critical role in helping them to initiate pregnancy. According to the CDC, 1.6% of children born in... Read more
The February edition of the John A. Moran Eye Center Focus magazine contains an article about ARCS Scholar Bradley Jacobsen. The article is reprinted here with permission. ARCS Utah is so proud to be a sponsor of Dr. Jacobsen's research.
"First-year ophthalmology resident Bradely H. Jacobsen, MD, is focused... Read more
The ARCS Light Award is an annual award honoring a Chapter member for extraordinary service and personal leadership which benefits the Chapter. The ARCS Utah Chapter, is proud to present this year’s ARCS light award to Kathie Miller. Kathie is one of Utah’s most effective and successful community advocates. While... Read more
At the 2018 ARCS Scholar Awards Luncheon the chapter celebrated 10 years of ARCS in Utah. Prior to the luncheon, Vice President of Scholar Outreach, Dr. Anne Erickson worked to contact each of the Utah Scholars. Using information from the scholars a slide show with brief scholar... 
