Meet a Flinn Scholar: Devin Mauney

04/18/2008 | Devin Mauney, a 2005 Flinn Scholar, possesses sharp political instincts, a fascination with education and economic policy, and an intense concern about gaps between the rich and poor. Last month he was named a recipient of the Truman Scholarship, the nation's highest undergraduate award for public service, in recognition of his rapid emergence as a promising leader in several arenas.

Meet a Flinn Scholar: Dustin Cox

04/11/2007 | As Dustin Cox ('04) would be the first to tell you, he tends to dream big. But what sets this political science and sociology junior apart is that he has made many of those dreams a reality at his university. By melding his commitment to diversity with his talent for leadership, Cox has founded a diversity awareness organization of more than 500 members, won a student government election, and been voted vice chair of the senate by his peers. Also in the plans: running for public office at the age of 25.

Meet a Flinn Scholar: Justin Kiggins

09/07/2006 | For college students these days, changing your major is like changing your hair; it can happen on a bi-monthly basis. Most students, however, do not start out in music and end up in bioengineering, interested in research as a career. Meet Justin Kiggins, a senior Flinn Scholar who (admittedly) thrives off change.

Meet two Flinn Scholars: Megan McGinnity and Alan Wang

09/08/2005 | The National Securities Education Program Boren scholarship is a prestigious award offered to undergraduates from around the country who want to study abroad. Last year four Flinn Scholars won the scholarship, and in this issue we profile two of the winners, one who just embarked on her yearlong journey to Romania and another who finished his summer in China just a few months ago.

Meet a Flinn Scholar: Lars Peterson

05/11/2005 | Flinn Scholar Lars Peterson ('01), about to scrub up for medical school in the fall, would love to write for Rolling Stone in his next life. In this one, he is putting the finishing touches on a bioethics honors thesis at the University of Arizona, graduating, and rooting for Liverpool's football team from across the pond.

Meet a Flinn Scholar: Liz Dreeland

09/02/2004 | Liz Dreeland takes aim with rifles and words with equal alacrity and rarely misses with either. She sat down with us recently at a Tempe coffee shop to discuss life as a Flinn Scholar, Cuba, iconoclasm, and the problems with capital P Poetry.

Meet a Flinn Scholar: Marla Smith-Nilson

09/02/2003 | Since co-founding WaterPartners International, 1987 Scholar Marla Smith-Nilson has spent a significant portion of her life working toward the day when everyone, everywhere, will be able to take a safe drink of water; but the road from small-town girl from Benson, Arizona, to international programs director of a global nonprofit affecting the lives of thousands of people has not always been an easy one.

Meet a Flinn Scholar: Chris Tijerina

05/19/2003 | Ask anyone who knows Chris Tijerina--teachers, counselors, or peers--and you will hear the same word again and again: community. Chris is a person who understands the meaning of the word better than most, and for his efforts was recently recognized by Governor Janet Napolitano as an example of what one student can do to improve Arizona education.

Meet a Flinn Scholar: Esther Ellsworth

12/03/2002 | Esther Ellsworth is a seeker. Reaching out to life, touching the hearts and minds of people in need both here and abroad, and clinging tightly to her innate sense of life's essential beauty, Esther seeks many things. She seeks nothing so much, however, as balance.