Success Stories

JULY 2024

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Hariet Yousefi Received a NASA JPL Internship

Posted: 07/22/2024

Sharveny Parthibhan received the Prestigious Gene Haas Scholarship and Placed First at the CSUNposium Poster Presentation

Posted: 07/22/2024

Educational Workshop hosted at Golf Tournament

ARCS Hosts Educational Workshops at World Championship Golf Tournament

Posted: 07/02/2024

Matthew Smith Presented a Poster for Boracle at Conference

Posted: 07/02/2024

JUNE 2024

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ARCS Students Are Movin’ On and Movin’ Up

Kudos to our graduates heading to their next adventure
Posted: 06/04/2024

Samuel Mercado will be presenting ARCS research for Boracle at the IEEE/ACM CHASE 2024 conference

Posted: 06/04/2024

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We Salute You, Monica!

Posted: 06/04/2024

MAY 2024

The ARCS Team Goes Into The Wild Blue Yonder

Posted: 05/28/2024

Congratulations To Our 40 Graduates!

Posted: 05/24/2024

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School’s Out For Summer

Posted: 05/07/2024

Congrats to Sharveny Parthibhan, a Fellow on ARCS’ Nondestructive Evaluation of On-Orbit Manufactured Components project. Sharveny received the prestigious Gene Haas Scholarship from the College of Engineering and Computer Science and placed first at the CSUNposium poster presentation for Periodicities of Recurrent Sunspots and the Implications of their Anchoring Depths. Let’s hear it for Sharveny!

Hariet Yousefi received a NASA JPL internship, working on the Mars Sample Return Project. An ARCS Associate on the Campus Autonomous Robot Tours (CART) project, Hariet says her internship “is an engineer’s dream coming true.” Well done, Hariet!

To enhance its World Championship Golf Tournament, FCG asked ARCS to present educational workshops to these junior golf competitors. ARCS introduced the kids and teens to robotics basics, then taught them how to operate Spot, our robot “dog,” and the Astro Cultivators’ space-farming robotic arm. Perhaps future ARCS students?

Matthew Smith had the opportunity to connect with people who would use our technology, received feedback, and reached out to interested parties for collaboration.

Adinai Seiitbek Kyzy: Rush University’s MSN program
Harmony Whiting: USC’s Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Masters program
Maya Habash: Touro University Nevada Medical School
Samuel Mercado: CSULB’s Human Factors Psychology MS program
Julia Spencer: CSUN’s Anthropology MA program
Jessica Steiner: CSUN’s Anthropology MA program

ARCS Associate Ronnie Vincent just graduated with a double major in Anthropology and Chicano/a Studies. Ronnie was a Project Rebound student, which is especially significant because formerly incarcerated individuals are notoriously absent from knowledge production activities. Even after graduation Ronnie continues to assist us (WHO?) with coding and analysis of interviews.

ARCS Associate Simran Deo is an Anthropology major and Sociology minor, and has been the most active in bringing ARCS’ NAME OF PROJECT project home. Simran co-authored a paper with faculty member Kevin Zemlicka that she co-presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology (SFAA) 84th Annual Conference in March. In the paper, Autoethnographic Reflections on the Value of Community Engaged Research to “Teaching Universities”, Simran discussed her participation on her ARCS project and what it has done for her. Publication is in the works in collaboration with Drs. Kim Kirner and Rachel Giraudo. Our panel WAS THE PANEL AT THE SAME CONFERENCE AND WERE BOTH OF YOU ON IT? addressed similar themes. Simran, Kevin, Kim and Rachel are putting together their papers for submission to Human Organization. This is a huge deal for an undergrad like Simran as SFAA is a highly reputable, long-standing society and a national conference. Kudos to Simran and the team!

Samuel Mercado presented ARCS research for Boracle at the IEEE/ACM CHASE 2024 conference in June. He also has been selected as a summer research assistant at the CSUN REN (Research Experience for Undergraduates), mentoring undergraduates in research methods and performing research on thermal-aware load balancing.

ARCS Fellow Emerson Martinez began at ARCS as an undergraduate psychology major. His efforts on the WHICH PROJECT?? team helped increase the visibility of ARCS across campus, which led to the development of several programming tools such as PPT presentations and flyers. He graduated with high honors last year and just finished his first year in the MS program in the College of Education – College Counseling and Student Services. Emerson became a US citizen while participating as an outreach Fellow. Congrats to Emerson on all his accomplishments.

Monica Ahumada-Heen (BS Chemistry, ARCS’ Breastfeeding Reimagined: Exploring Augmented Reality’s Impact on Lactation Experiences Research Project) conducts research on fitness for the U.S. Army during her Chemical, Biological, Radiological & Nuclear Advanced Leader Course.

The ARCS team had an awesome visit to Edwards Air Force Base and NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, touring their impressive facilities. Our students presented their research, chatted with the crews, and even got to try the flight simulators.

Congratulations to our 40 Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 graduates…we’re all proud of you and your achievements. Meet them all!

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ARCS celebrated another successful academic year with a team picnic full of fun, camaraderie, and food. The day’s highlight was presenting ARCS’ exclusive sashes to our graduates…don’t they look great?