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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…