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Establish an ARCS Scholar Award

Your Gift of an ARCS Foundation Seattle Chapter Scholar Award

  • Allows our top two Washington State research universities to compete with peer institutions throughout the country to recruit the very best PhD candidates in the most critical areas of science.

  • Enables our state’s leading professors to assemble the best research teams with tremendous creative talent. In turn, these students help to energtize, retain, and attracthighly valued faculty at the UW and WSU.

  • Brings to our community bright minds whose academic work on complex scientific challenges leads to innovative workforce contributions helping to boost our local economy.

  • Provides the opportunity to develop a relationship with students and faculty with a broad range of scientific interests.

An ARCS Foundation Seattle Chapter Scholar Award

  • Each ARCS Foundation Seattle Chapter Scholar Award of $22,500 funds one student over a three-year period at either UW or WSU. Two donors may jointly create an ARCS Scholar Award.

  • Payments are made to a student as follows: $7,500 paid out in the Fall each year for three years.

  • Scholar Award recipients are selected and recruited by the universities.

  • ARCS Scholars have full discretion regarding how to use their scholar funds.

  • ARCS Scholars must be US citizens and maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or better.

To request more information about donating an ARCS Scholar Award please click HERE to email us.

  • Kirk A. Schulz, PhD, President of Washington State University
    "With the support of ARCS Foundation, we have been able to provide assistance to some of our most talented doctoral students, allowing them to focus on the important challenges before them."
  • Ana Mari Cauce, PhD, President of University of Washington
    "ARCS Foundation is a vital partner of the University of Washington as we seek to recruit the very best graduate students in the sciences and engineering."
  • Lee Huntsman, PhD, UW President Emeritus, Professor Emeritus
    "The evidence is clear; ARCS Foundation and its mission, energy, and principles have led to a record of outstanding stewardship. ARCS Scholar Award donations are used very wisely and with high impact."