News and Updates

The prescription for prescribers

September 26, 2007

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…


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FlinnJobs.com

September 26, 2007

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…


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Direct from the Green Zone

September 26, 2007

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,…


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Ah, those wild and crazy PoETs…

September 25, 2007

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…


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Remember those Doublemint gum commercials?

September 19, 2007

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…


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Basically, she’s keeping the whole boat afloat

September 14, 2007

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.


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Of course you use a fishing pole

September 14, 2007

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.


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