Time’s Person of the Year
February 27, 2008
Okay–not yet. But Tom Wilkening (’97) has made it into the magazine. And that’s got to be a start, right? Hot on the heels of those Freakonomics guys, Tom is at MIT doing all kinds of economic theorizing about antiquities…
Reporting for the State Press, Cape Town bureau
February 15, 2008
We haven’t done a double-blind study or anything, but it sure looks like veterans of the journalism machine at ASU have an inside track to employment as scribes in southern Africa. See here and here, for starters. The latest wordsmith…
Megan McGinnity rules another news cycle
February 14, 2008
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,…
Hey professor, why’d I get a B?
February 14, 2008
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-…
Back to school
February 09, 2008
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…
Word of the day: Oligopolistic
February 05, 2008
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…
Watch out for sea lions
February 02, 2008
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…