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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

Last time we caught sight of Zeb Hogan (’91), he was wrestling a catfish the size of a grizzly bear. In the National Geographic clip below, he’s moved from southeast Asia to the Amazon, but he’s still working to verify…