Sarah Parmar (McDonald) and Ruben Alonzo
March 16, 2016
If Ruben and Sarah appear to be set apart by the diversity of their interests, they have one thing in common: depth. At the start of their undergraduate careers, these two Scholars knew what their passions were, and they committed…
Flinn Scholar Blake Thomson
August 22, 2015
Thomson graduated from Arizona State University in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in global health and minor in English Literature. He attended Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix and was a member of the Flinn Scholar Class of 2009.
Flinn Scholar Daniel Sullivan
September 22, 2014
Nearly a decade after being introduced to existential psychology at the University of Arizona, Class of 2004 Flinn Scholar Daniel Sullivan returned to Tucson to teach undergraduate courses and conduct research at his alma mater.
Daniel Fried takes Churchill Scholarship to University of Cambridge
July 14, 2014
Daniel Fried, a Class of 2010 Flinn Scholar and recent graduate of the University of Arizona, is one of only 14 students in the United States to be awarded the Churchill Scholarship this year, enabling him to spend a year…
Flinn Scholar Andrew Shemin
November 15, 2011
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…
Flinn Scholar Ben Strauber
April 08, 2010
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…
Flinn Scholar Devin Mauney
August 22, 2008
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…