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Megan McGinnity rules another news cycle

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, 22, a senior at Arizona State University, the beginnings of her life’s work took root […]

Hey professor, why’d I get a B?

Hey, we’ve been there… standing in front of the professor’s closed office door, hearing Philip Glass’s “Orphee Suite” playing on the other side, wondering whether to knock–even though it’s definitely during office hours–and wondering whether our complaint about a D- on a quiz will make said professor hate us forever… But of course there’s another […]

Back to school

Brent Maddin (’94) is bailing on the last sliver of time he was supposed to spend in Cambridge, Mass. He got a job down in New York, and will have to wrap up his dissertation from a distance. Brent’s new digs (His office will be next door to the Strand Book Store. We’re not jealous. […]

Word of the day: Oligopolistic

Matt Stone (’03), who we think lives in the dungeon of a 13th-century castle on the outskirts of Dundee, Scotland, has an article in The Stockholm Network‘s journal on energy and the environment, Climate of Opinion. Matt’s article, about the possible development of a natural gas cartel similar to OPEC, is good reading; if you […]

Watch out for sea lions

Annie Roethel (’04) is wayyy far away from her usual haunts around ASU. For those of you with GPS chips embedded behind your ear, she’s at coordinates -53.166667,-70.933333. For the rest of us, we’re talking about Punta Arenas, Chile, which is literally the southernmost city on Earth. Annie’s teaching English through March, hanging out on […]

Michel Becquet, watch your back

Six months to go until the world premiere of Lost Canyon II, and everywhere we turn, people are already getting revved up for the talent show. We just saw three hacky sack prodigies doing calisthenics out on the quad. Regarding the talent show: The eight-member Rules Committee has just issued a press release that reiterates […]

Who to call if you burn your fingers on a parabolic oven

We were trying to think of a good lawyer joke, but it’s hard to make a really good lawyer joke when the lawyer in question, Chris Jaap (’91), is doing really good work. Sigh. This job is tough sometimes. We’re guessing the best we can do in this case is just include a really old […]

Globetrotting McGinnity wins Marshall Scholarship

Megan McGinnity, a 2003 Flinn Scholar, has won one of the world's most esteemed graduate fellowships, the Marshall Scholarship. Next fall she will begin studying Middle East politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, extending her investigation of foreign policy and security and how they are intertwined with human trafficking.

But did he give her any stock options?

Back in November, a troop from the Eller College of Management dug out their wool hats and moon boots, got on a plane, and went to see the Wizard of Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett. Sarah Trainor (’07) was one of the 74 UA students who met Buffett. (So did a group of grad students […]

A-Town, a man, a plan, a canal, Panama, nwota

Wow, we love palindromes. There’s somebody on The Internets who has invented one as long as The Merchant of Venice. It doesn’t make sense, but it uses real words, unlike this dumb”nwota” thing. But where were we? Oh, right: Dustin Cox (’04)! As UA News tells it, he has successfully worked to create A-Town, a […]