News and Updates

Deconstructing the FAFSA, scholarship application processes

November 05, 2010

The launch of a new resource for students seeking scholarships has coincided with the start of a financial aid informational series to be held at the University of Arizona. Scholarship Universe is a new initiative launched by the UA's Office…


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Actor/Activist Edward James Olmos meets with Flinn Scholars

October 19, 2010

A spaceman and a schoolteacher and a judge and a cop--those are just a few of the roles that Edward James Olmos has assumed on screen. But as a small group of Flinn Scholars learned on Oct. 10, even the…


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25th Anniversary reunites past and present Scholars

October 18, 2010

Here's the verdict, right up front: The Flinn Scholars 25th Anniversary celebration was fantastic. Just about this time, 25 years ago, the Flinn Foundation's board of directors approved creation of the Flinn Scholarship. John Murphy and Myra Millinger got to…


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Setting the summer to music

October 14, 2010

Matt Rolland ('05), one of the chaperones on the Flinn Scholars' 2010 Central European seminar, has provided an invaluable gift to the Scholars Program. After I-can't-guess-how-many hours of careful selection, arrangement, and editing, Matt has released a photo-and-video slideshow that…


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Twenty.

September 15, 2010

"To become a Flinn Scholar, you don’t need to have accomplished your life goals or even know what those are, but what you do need is a fire in your belly, a willingness to go after the things you find…


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Risk and reward at the Flinn Scholars retreat

September 03, 2010

Each August, the Flinn Scholars annual retreat serves as a chance for incoming Scholars to spend their first extended time together and begin establishing the bonds that will unite them well beyond their graduations four years in the future. The…


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Film icon Edward James Olmos to meet with Scholars

September 01, 2010

In 1985, the Flinn Foundation made a grant to Arizona State University establishing an endowment in honor of the the university's 100th anniversary. The endowment gave birth to the Centennial Lecture, one of the premier annual cultural events at ASU.…


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