Flinn Scholars

Conquering CCC, one department at a time

Tim (’97) and Esther (’98 ) Ellsworth Bowers are staying busy these days sustaining the science offerings at Coconino Community College in Flagstaff. Tim is teaching half of CCC’s physics sections this fall, while Esther is teaching a section of anatomy and piloting an online bio course, a key addition for a college serving a […]

The Other Marshalls

We don’t intend for you to read this post, pack your bags, and catch the next flight to Heathrow. But that might be the consequence of reading any further. A couple of years ago, Becky Mosher (’94) was finishing her Ph.D. in genetics at Duke, and trolling around for a postdoc opportunity. She came across […]

“Fie, fie, you counterfeit. You puppet, you!”

Wm. Shakespeare said that. Todd Murphey (’93) said this: This video is a (somewhat biased) comparison between simulations created with a variational integrator (left) and a continuous ODE (right). The variational integrator is a Mathematica implemenation that ran in about 10 minutes with a 0.01 second stepsize. The continuous system used a C implementation that […]

Spring break diary

According to reports emerging from our Cape Town bureau, NSEP scholar Nicole Rennell (’05) is putting her time in South Africa to excellent use, improving her command of Xhosa while she works in a public-health clinic. She isn’t just surfing the fast right break at Tofinho. But enough preemptive defenses. Let’s go to a diary […]

From Alfred Hitchcock, a new motion picture: “The Sheep”

Lauren Giesecke (’01) was recently roaming the Slovakian countryside. These are the fearsome sheep that pursued her all the way to Croatia: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69CoEBMe17A]

“You are going to have fun”

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 Famous” said, too, and we know they were just embarrassed by the publicity about their […]

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

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 life, Tony is studying auction design, and publishing papers with titles like (take a deep […]

The prescription for prescribers

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 provided editorial guidance to Marwan Sabbagh for his new book, The Alzheimer’s Answer: Reduce Your […]

FlinnJobs.com

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 building a team and looking for a Chief Technology Officer, as well as any web-developer […]

Direct from the Green Zone

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, during a visit back to the United States, he stopped by the Foundation with his […]
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