News and Updates

Mentoring and advising in college

July 16, 2014

Earlier this month on ASBMB Today, Dr. Bill Sullivan, from the Indiana University School of Medicine, presented a theoretical open letter to his parents. He writes, “If I were an undergraduate today writing a letter informing my parents that I…


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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…


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Achievement vs. empathy in young people

July 09, 2014

Two weeks ago in The Atlantic, Jessica Lahey reported on a study from the Making Caring Common project at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. The study found that a vast majority of surveyed middle- and high-school students…


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How we respond to disparities between high schools

July 02, 2014

While I was in graduate school, I lived in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., a few miles down the road from two of the most prestigious public high schools in the United States. We were renting, but families that…


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Flinn Scholar Shantanu Bala awarded Thiel Fellowship to pursue research

June 12, 2014

Shantanu Bala, a Class of 2011 Flinn Scholar and Arizona State University student, has been awarded the prestigious Thiel Fellowship that will match him with the world’s brightest young entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley leaders for the next two years.


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Shantanu Bala

June 01, 2014

Shantanu Bala, a Class of 2011 Flinn Scholar and Arizona State University student, has been awarded the prestigious Thiel Fellowship that will match him with the world’s brightest young entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley leaders for the next two years.


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New class of 20 Flinn Scholars chooses Arizona universities

May 06, 2014

The 2014 Flinn Scholarship has been awarded to 20 of Arizona’s highest-achieving high-school seniors, who will receive a comprehensive educational package to attend an Arizona public university.


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