News and Updates

Soundtrack of the day

May 19, 2008

Your choice. Go to the Metallica concert and walk around all day tomorrow with your ears ringing. Or put these YouTubes on repeat and start referring to yourself as Dr. Chillaxing. You might think it’s the super-powered reincarnation of Brad…


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Newbies

April 24, 2008

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. The first 2008 Scholar to draw the attention of the Fourth Estate appears to be Payson High School’s own Mark McCarty, featured in this profile in the Payson Roundup. Mark, who won a…


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Can we get some applause? (updated)

April 21, 2008

For Lara Cardy (’05) and Michael Mitchell (’06), announced as 2008 Goldwater Scholars; For Dustin Cox (’03), winner of a UA Pillar of Excellence Award; For David Hernandez (’04), finalist for the Marshall and Gates-Cambridge Scholarships, and selected as outstanding…


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All aboard the board

April 21, 2008

History has been made, and you’re reading it here first! The Foundation has added a Scholar alum to its board of directors. The board has picked up Shaun Kirkpatrick (’87), president and CEO of Research Corporation Technologies, a Tucson-based technology…


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FlinnJobs.com

April 21, 2008

A while back, when we did grantwriting, one of our favorite places to go begging was Hedge Funds Care, a charity working to reduce child abuse. It was set up by some of those stock-market geniuses with good hearts and…


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Cardy, Mitchell snare Goldwater Scholarships for biomedical research

April 18, 2008

Two Flinn Scholars engaged in advanced biomedical research, Lara Cardy and Michael Mitchell, have received the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the top national award for undergraduates in science, engineering, and mathematics.


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Unoficially

April 17, 2008

Officially, there was no Foundation-sponsored trip to CEDO this spring. To which something like 30 current Scholars and alums said, “Yeah, well, we know how to read maps. And we’ve got enough gas to get at least as far as…


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