Matthew Schmit

"I am incredibly honored and humbled to be selected as an ARCS scholar for 2022. I am kindly sponsored by Mr. Ed West, in honor of his mother who worked to promote science in the Phoenix area. The philanthropy of ARCS donors is extremely effective at supporting students studying science since they target their support to the researchers directly. As I start to move towards the next step in my career studying how emotions are regulated in the brain and how this can go wrong in disease, this support will be invaluable, accelerating my work and letting me achieve more on my way to be a better scientist. " - Matthew Schmit, 2022