News and Updates

“You are going to have fun”

October 05, 2007

The above promise from Sean Aiken (’02) appears in this article from the Daily Wildcat. Read the Tucson Citizen‘s article at your peril–Sean says he was a little sorta kinda misquoted. Although… that’s exactly what the rock stars in “Almost…


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I say it’ll snow. Now give me a dollar.

October 05, 2007

Business Week has the scoop on Tony Kwasnica‘s (’90) current research into futures markets. Tony, an associate professor of economics at Penn State, has demonstrated that futures markets can be used to accurately predict the weather. Elsewhere in his professional…


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The prescription for prescribers

September 26, 2007

Kate Petersen (’00), who works for the Boston-based Prescription Project, produces the pharmaceutical-industry watchdog’s weekly newsletter, and has just taken on oversight of PostScript, the organization’s new blog. Meanwhile, one of Kate’s side projects has reached a major milestone. She…


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FlinnJobs.com

September 26, 2007

How about that? You visit this site looking for news about your old Ultimate Frisbee teammates, and the next thing you know, you’re getting a paycheck! From Bart Steiner (’87): I just received funding for a web startup. I am…


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Direct from the Green Zone

September 26, 2007

As a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service, David Ng (’96) has been working on voluntary assignment in the economics section at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. Dave’s one-year stint in Baghdad began in June. On Sept. 25,…


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Ah, those wild and crazy PoETs…

September 25, 2007

Rachel Wellhausen (’00), a Ph.D. candidate in political science in MIT’s Program on Emerging Technologies (PoET), was crowned the top new poli-sci student at the university last year. Now she’s working on a National Science Foundation project with SynBERC, the…


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Remember those Doublemint gum commercials?

September 19, 2007

The band DOUBLETOP is essentially the same thing, only with more clever lyrics. And more guitars, some of them played by Sean Aiken (’02). Okay. But its new album, “Firewater,” released Sept. 7, is cool and refreshing…


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