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23rd class of Flinn Scholars chooses Arizona universities

Twenty of Arizona's premier high-school seniors have chosen to pursue their college education at an Arizona public university on a Flinn Foundation Scholarship. The award provides four years of study, academic-focused travel abroad, personal mentorship by faculty members, and other benefits. The package is valued at approximately $50,000—on top of tuition and fee waivers from their chosen universities.

23rd class of Flinn Scholars chooses Arizona universities

Twenty of Arizona's premier high-school seniors have chosen to pursue their college education at an Arizona public university on a Flinn Foundation Scholarship. The award provides four years of study, academic-focused travel abroad, personal mentorship by faculty members, and other benefits. The package is valued at approximately $50,000—on top of tuition and fee waivers from their chosen universities.

The soul of wit

Kate Petersen (’00), who also has a story in Issue 65 of Quarterly West, has a new piece in Brevity, a journal focusing on short-form nonfiction essays. Kate’s essay isn’t really about a fierce dog (despite the accompanying picture of a fierce dog). It’s more about this: I know sounds, too: the crystal wink of […]

Soundtrack of the day

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 Ford (’92). His fans know him as Mitch Turbenson (’08): [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7vOTQMvINw]

Newbies

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 3A state wrestling title this winter, looks like the closest thing the Scholars program has […]

Can we get some applause? (updated)

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 senior in the UA Department of Astronomy; For Brian Indrelunas (’04), named editor of the […]

All aboard the board

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 investment and management company. Basically, if you’re a smarty-pants technoinventor/concepticator and you can get your […]

FlinnJobs.com

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 enough cash to buy Australia. So we perked up a little when we got this […]

Cardy, Mitchell snare Goldwater Scholarships for biomedical research

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.

Unoficially

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 Ajo…”