Flinn Scholars
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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 […]Watch out for sea lions
Annie Roethel (’04) is wayyy far away from her usual haunts around ASU. For those of you with GPS chips embedded behind your ear, she’s at coordinates -53.166667,-70.933333. For the rest of us, we’re talking about Punta Arenas, Chile, which is literally the southernmost city on Earth. Annie’s teaching English through March, hanging out on […]Michel Becquet, watch your back
Six months to go until the world premiere of Lost Canyon II, and everywhere we turn, people are already getting revved up for the talent show. We just saw three hacky sack prodigies doing calisthenics out on the quad. Regarding the talent show: The eight-member Rules Committee has just issued a press release that reiterates […]For information about Flinn Scholars, please contact:
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