The 16th ARCS OC Annual Awards Dinner was held on March 23 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, Irvine, CA. ARCS Orange County Chapter provides awards to exceptional PhD students at UC Irvine in the schools of Biological Sciences, Engineering, Information and Computer Sciences, Medicine and Physical Sciences.
The evening began with a reception and poster session, followed by keynote talks by the Second-Year Scholars. Kristine Dahl Arquero, Sarkis Babikian, Thomas Baker, Kyle Benson, Clayton Elder, Nan Wu Hultgren and Sumner Norman.