Flinn Scholars

Ah, those wild and crazy PoETs…

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 Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, a multi-institution research effort to lay the groundwork for synthetic […]

Remember those Doublemint gum commercials?

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…

Basically, she’s keeping the whole boat afloat

Logan Robertson (’94) is living in Visalia, Calif., and works for the Cutler-Orosi school district, for which she coordinates after-school programs, supervises other community services of the district, and does some grantwriting.

Of course you use a fishing pole

Next quarter, Ammon Corl (’93) will wrap up his doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. If you’ve always wondered how to catch lizards, check out the photos on his website.

The esq. ledger

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Alum at the Apogee

Sarah Whitley (’02) is part of the inaugural class at the new UA-Phoenix med school. And she’s going for free, courtesy of Apogee Physicians, as the first-ever Apogee Scholar. 

You can’t go Orme again

In case ye codgers (alums) out there missed the news, the longstanding Scholars tradition of starting the year with a retreat at the Orme School has ended. The new retreat site, Lost Canyon, outside of Williams, has met with the full approval of current Scholars. 

We Three NSEP

Over on the Foundation’s website back in May, Leslie Harris (’01) reported on the latest batch of Scholars named NSEP Scholars–Devin Mauney (’05), Nicole Rennell (’05), and Ben Strauber (’05), whose awards are sponsoring study in, respectively, Brazil, South Africa, and India.
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