News and Updates

On the Road 2012: Day Three

May 29, 2012

Each summer an entire class of Flinn Scholars engages in a group study-travel seminar. This year’s seminar, held in Hungary and western Romania, runs from late in May to mid-June. Here’s a day-by-day account. Shantanu Bala ('11) This morning, I…


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On the Road 2012: Day Two

May 28, 2012

Each summer an entire class of Flinn Scholars engages in a group study-travel seminar. This year’s seminar, held in Hungary and western Romania, runs from late in May to mid-June. Here’s a day-by-day account. Jasmine Anglen (’11) As we set…


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On the Road 2012: Day One

May 27, 2012

Each summer an entire class of Flinn Scholars engages in a group study-travel seminar. This year’s seminar, held in Hungary and western Romania, runs from late in May to mid-June. Here’s a day-by-day account. Aman Aberra ('11) "Sometimes, I think…


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22 top Arizona students named Flinn Scholars

April 25, 2012

PHOENIX—Twenty-two of Arizona’s most talented high-school seniors have been awarded the 2012 Flinn Scholarship, a comprehensive educational package at an Arizona public university that includes tuition, room and board, international study-related travel, and additional benefits.


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Flinn Foundation Names Director of Flinn Scholars Program

March 08, 2012

Matt Ellsworth, a former Flinn Scholar and a five-year Flinn Foundation staff member, has been named the fourth director in the program’s 26-year history.


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Flinn Scholars drive Arizona universities to elite rank in Goldwater competition

February 14, 2012

Over the last two years, a stunning total of 14 undergraduates at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona won the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the most prestigious undergraduate award in the nation for students in mathematics, the natural…


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Alum adds another major poetry award

February 08, 2012

Flinn Scholar alumna Katherine Larson ('96) has had a big year. Last March, Yale University Press published Katherine's first volume of poetry, Radial Symmetry, her reward for winning the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, the oldest annual literary award…


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