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.  

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Megan McGinnity (’03), named a Marshall Scholar in November, keeps racking up the honors. She’s just been announced as one of 20 members of USA Today‘s 2008 All-USA College Academic First Team. Here’s the paper’s pithy statement: For Megan McGinnity,…