The right place, the right time

Right place, right time. That’s us for sure. We were just sitting here a few minutes ago, minding our own business, when we heard the voice of one Audrey Ching (‘95) out in the hall. What a great way to enliven a Thursday morning!
Audrey was in the house on official business–an Arizona Dept. of Health [...]

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Time’s Person of the Year

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 (that’s the one noted in Time), knife fights, The Internets, and other stuff, all toward collecting [...]

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End-of-2007 Superlatives

Considering that 2008 has already begun for the farthest-flung Scholars and alums, we’d better hurry up with some year-end awards. Let’s get right to it:
Most Likely to Catch You if You Start Spilling Trade Secrets: Keith Schon (‘92). Keith is a senior software engineer for Cataphora, which conducts investigations on very large data sets, mostly [...]

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Karl Rove x James Carville =

Who knows the solution to that little bit of arithmetic… What we do know is that Kelley Van Auken (‘95) is holding her own in the political arena.
After working in the White House in the late 90s, Kelley lit out for the territory, where she worked for Rep. Susan Davis of San Diego. Now she’s [...]

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Are you smarter than a 7th grader?

Now you can find out. No humiliation from Jeff Foxworthy required.
Scoot over to the web page of Becki Norris (‘95), where she has posted homework for her students in physical science, geometry, and drawing. We’ve already learned a bunch about sea-floor spreading and convection ovens currents, and we’ve met a whole slew of polygons.
Becki teaches [...]

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