Ten years ago, when Andrew Shemin ('98) traveled to France for a semester as a Flinn Scholar, one of his independent-study projects involved spending many days in the city parks of Paris, where, notebook in hand, he recorded his observations…

Since choosing the Flinn Scholarship in 2005 over enticing offers from out-of-state universities, Ben Strauber has assembled an eye-popping record of scientific discovery and service, and last month received an offer from Stanford University for full funding of a doctoral…

Here’s a rather disparate constituency: malaria victims in Africa, hardscrabble sugarcane farmers in Brazil, and financially strapped students in Arizona. That might sound like a range of concerns beyond the purview any one institution. But a range too broad for…

For University of Arizona junior Dustin Cox (Flinn class of 2004), what started as a high school interest in diversity has developed into a full-time passion. At Skyline High School, Cox founded the Human Relations Council, an organization that promoted…

There is precision and paradox in what Liz Dreeland does. She takes aim with rifles and words with equal alacrity and rarely misses with either. Liz (Flinn class of 2001) demonstrates precision in her marksmanship, in the skilled choreography of…

Building an academic reputation while pursuing her own intellectual and spiritual needs has sometimes proven to be a struggle for Esther Ellsworth, provoking a dynamic tension between ideals and realities, between belief and doubt. In her journey, she represents the…