Flinn Scholars

Make your very own galaxy

David Hernandez ('04), at UA's Undergraduate Research Forum, explains how to combine a few ingredients--stars, dark matter, swiss cheese--to create a galaxy.

 

The esq. ledger, web edition

 Michael Valek (’96) is going to be the most famous intellectual-property lawyer in the world–assuming this Internet fad takes off someday. Michael’s new gig is writing a blog called BLIP with some buddies from Vinson & Elkins LLP on the subject of patent, copyright, and intellectual-property law. The part where we get very jealous is […]

The right place, the right time

 Right place, right time. That’s us for sure. We were just sitting here a few minutes ago, minding our own business, when we heard the voice of one Audrey Ching (’95) out in the hall. What a great way to enliven a Thursday morning! Audrey was in the house on official business–an Arizona Dept. of […]

Shhhh. (He can’t tell you anything.)

 Peter Ziegler (’03) is staying mum about what, exactly, he’s working on in his role as a “process engineer” for W. L. Gore and Associates. But it’s got to be good: We just saw him floating around Flagstaff, in what appeared to be a lighter-than-air, radar-deflecting, waterproof technobubble suit of armor. Either that or he […]

Time’s Person of the Year

 Okay–not yet. But Tom Wilkening (’97) has made it into the magazine. And that’s got to be a start, right? Hot on the heels of those Freakonomics guys, Tom is at MIT doing all kinds of economic theorizing about antiquities (that’s the one noted in Time), knife fights, The Internets, and other stuff, all toward […]

Reporting for the State Press, Cape Town bureau

 We haven’t done a double-blind study or anything, but it sure looks like veterans of the journalism machine at ASU have an inside track to employment as scribes in southern Africa. See here and here, for starters. The latest wordsmith to make the jump is Brian Indrelunas (’04), who will graduate from ASU in December. […]

Megan McGinnity rules another news cycle

 Megan McGinnity (’03), named a Marshall Scholar in November, keeps racking up the honors. She’s just been announced as one of 20 members of USA Today‘s 2008 All-USA College Academic First Team. Here’s the paper’s pithy statement: For Megan McGinnity, 22, a senior at Arizona State University, the beginnings of her life’s work took root […]

Hey professor, why’d I get a B?

 Hey, we’ve been there… standing in front of the professor’s closed office door, hearing Philip Glass’s “Orphee Suite” playing on the other side, wondering whether to knock–even though it’s definitely during office hours–and wondering whether our complaint about a D- on a quiz will make said professor hate us forever… But of course there’s another […]

Back to school

 Brent Maddin (’94) is bailing on the last sliver of time he was supposed to spend in Cambridge, Mass. He got a job down in New York, and will have to wrap up his dissertation from a distance. Brent’s new digs (His office will be next door to the Strand Book Store. We’re not jealous. […]

Word of the day: Oligopolistic

 Matt Stone (’03), who we think lives in the dungeon of a 13th-century castle on the outskirts of Dundee, Scotland, has an article in The Stockholm Network‘s journal on energy and the environment, Climate of Opinion. Matt’s article, about the possible development of a natural gas cartel similar to OPEC, is good reading; if you […]
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