Category Archive for "Flinn Scholars" |

So, you put the E. coli in here… but, uh, don’t eat it!

We’re brave, but not Jeremy Babendure (’97) brave. Now that he’s finished his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences at UC San Deigo, Jeremy is directing the university’s BioBridge program, which brings cutting-edge science to high-school classrooms around San Diego. Which is, to say the least, a courageous thing to do. Of course, from all reports, it’s […]

I left my heart at Haas

We just discovered that the UC Berkeley Business School has its own cafe operated by Jimmy Beans, one of our all-time-favorite spots for breakfast. We’re getting hungry just thinking about it. And that coffee… So, we get it when Ian Larkin (’91) acknowledges missing life in the Bay Area–the incredible food, the spectacular diversity of […]

We want to join the army and catch a case of the bird flu

Not that anybody in the hospital is ever lucky, exactly… it nevertheless sounds like Christy (Buck) Oberg‘s (’93) patients at the VA in Tucson are in really good hands: I did my residency in internal medicine and then did a chief resident year. Since then, I’ve been working full time at the VA hospital here. […]

But it’s a dry heat…

Robin Mead (’97) has been teaching economics at the Dubai American Academy. We asked her if Dubai’s as crazy as the photo essay in this month’s Harper’s makes it look, and she said, Um, yeah. It’s as hot as Phoenix (but with less rain), skyscrapers are going up round the clock, and they’re putting the […]

Polly wants a cracker. And a Tickle-Me-Elmo doll.

Not to be too uncaring in a period of mourning, but Dr. Pepperberg, watch your back! The new parrot authority in the neighborhood is none other than Becky Fox (’96). She wrapped up a Ph.D. at UC Davis, where she studied things like parrots’ neophobia and whether well-matched parrot parents do a better job of […]

Econ Man

Sort of has a catchy ring, doesn’t it? Like Iron Man in those old Marvel comic books, but holding a copy of the Journal under his arm instead of wearing a funny-looking suit of armor. But we digress. The point is, Matt Cox (’94) is working on some very cool projects–studying the effects of welfare […]

Karl Rove x James Carville =

Who knows the solution to that little bit of arithmetic… What we do know is that Kelley Van Auken (’95) is holding her own in the political arena. After working in the White House in the late 90s, Kelley lit out for the territory, where she worked for Rep. Susan Davis of San Diego. Now […]

Barber shop

We asked the Google to tell us about “the jacques yves cousteau lab” and we got exactly zero hits. But, there’s a real live Barber Lab, at Boston University. Thus proving, as if anyone doubted it, that Paul Barber (’87) is the most famous marine biologist in the world.

A cantora maior de Bossa Nova em Tucson

We were kicking ourselves for missing all the celebrations of Brazil’s Independence Day back in September, and had reached the point of asking every person we met on the street if they might have a copy of Tristes Tropiques to spare. Then we heard from Theresa (Scionti) Levy (’86). And now we feel much better. […]

Are you smarter than a 7th grader?

Now you can find out. No humiliation from Jeff Foxworthy required. Scoot over to the web page of Becki Norris (’95), where she has posted homework for her students in physical science, geometry, and drawing. We’ve already learned a bunch about sea-floor spreading and convection ovens currents, and we’ve met a whole slew of polygons. […]