News and Updates

Rate your professor

March 06, 2008

Lisa Schultheis (’88 ) serves as chair of the biology department at Foothill College. And lest you think she’s the lucky one in the arrangement–teaching at what the American Institute of Architects called “the most beautiful community college ever built”–here’s…


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Make your very own galaxy

March 06, 2008

David Hernandez ('04), at UA's Undergraduate Research Forum, explains how to combine a few ingredients--stars, dark matter, swiss cheese--to create a galaxy.  


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The esq. ledger, web edition

March 06, 2008

Michael Valek (’96) is going to be the most famous intellectual-property lawyer in the world–assuming this Internet fad takes off someday. Michael’s new gig is writing a blog called BLIP with some buddies from Vinson & Elkins LLP on the…


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The right place, the right time

February 28, 2008

Right place, right time. That’s us for sure. We were just sitting here a few minutes ago, minding our own business, when we heard the voice of one Audrey Ching (’95) out in the hall. What a great way to…


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Shhhh. (He can’t tell you anything.)

February 27, 2008

Peter Ziegler (’03) is staying mum about what, exactly, he’s working on in his role as a “process engineer” for W. L. Gore and Associates. But it’s got to be good: We just saw him floating around Flagstaff, in what…


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Time’s Person of the Year

February 27, 2008

Okay–not yet. But Tom Wilkening (’97) has made it into the magazine. And that’s got to be a start, right? Hot on the heels of those Freakonomics guys, Tom is at MIT doing all kinds of economic theorizing about antiquities…


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Reporting for the State Press, Cape Town bureau

February 15, 2008

We haven’t done a double-blind study or anything, but it sure looks like veterans of the journalism machine at ASU have an inside track to employment as scribes in southern Africa. See here and here, for starters. The latest wordsmith…


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