News and Updates

Laying down the law

November 07, 2007

Over on the Flinn Foundation website, there’s a pithy item on retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s visit with Scholars on October 27. A grand time was had by all, especially the gang of first-year Flinns who pleaded…


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Justice Sandra Day O’Connor addresses Flinn Scholars

November 06, 2007

One of the Flinn Scholarship Program's key enrichment components is a public-policy seminar series that allows Scholars to meet some of Arizona's most important leaders. On Oct. 27, current Scholars enjoyed an extended conversation with one of the nation's most…


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To do: Get that Fleetwood Mac song out of your head

November 05, 2007

Well, don’t put it past Justin Kiggins (’02). He’s a pretty versatile guy.


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So, you put the E. coli in here… but, uh, don’t eat it!

October 26, 2007

We’re brave, but not Jeremy Babendure (’97) brave. Now that he’s finished his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences at UC San Deigo, Jeremy is directing the university’s BioBridge program, which brings cutting-edge science to high-school classrooms around San Diego. Which is,…


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I left my heart at Haas

October 26, 2007

We just discovered that the UC Berkeley Business School has its own cafe operated by Jimmy Beans, one of our all-time-favorite spots for breakfast. We’re getting hungry just thinking about it. And that coffee… So, we get it when Ian…


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We want to join the army and catch a case of the bird flu

October 25, 2007

Not that anybody in the hospital is ever lucky, exactly… it nevertheless sounds like Christy (Buck) Oberg‘s (’93) patients at the VA in Tucson are in really good hands: I did my residency in internal medicine and then did a…


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Where is she going, where has she been?

October 25, 2007

We’ll take the first part second and the second part first. The amazing Peace Corps alum Karyn Fox (’90), previously of the International Agricultural


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