We’re soooo 21st-century now

What you’ve heard is true. The fledgling Flinn Scholars YouTube channel is up.
The mission is grand (creepy?): We’ll document the lives of every last Scholar, from birth to death.
No, not really. But it’s going to be big!
To get things rolling, we’ve scoured The Internets and collected a few videos that were already out there, of [...]

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Newbies

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 3A state wrestling title this winter, looks like the closest thing the Scholars program has seen to [...]

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Why are howler monkeys better than spider monkeys?

Because howler monkeys know how to do some crazy barking, while spider monkeys only know how to get themselves eaten by harpie eagles. (They pluck the spider monkeys out of the tops of trees, like a Dr. Seuss book gone all wrong.)
Yup, it’s another Central American adventure brought to you by Clare (Ellsworth) Aslan (‘96) [...]

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The esq. ledger, web edition

Michael Valek (‘96) is going to be the most famous intellectual-property lawyer in the world–assuming this Internet fad takes off someday.
Michael’s new gig is writing a blog called BLIP with some buddies from Vinson & Elkins LLP on the subject of patent, copyright, and intellectual-property law.
The part where we get very jealous is that Michael’s [...]

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Hey professor, why’d I get a B?

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- on a quiz will make said professor hate us forever…
But of course there’s another side [...]

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You say yes, I CEDO, you say stop, and I say go go go

Kate Larson-Thomé (‘96) is still on her quest to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for most interdisciplinary example of Homo sapiens. So, she’s momentarily setting aside duties at the UA astrobiology lab to return to that old Scholar hangout in Rocky Point, the International Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO).
Kate [...]

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Polly wants a cracker. And a Tickle-Me-Elmo doll.

Not to be too uncaring in a period of mourning, but Dr. Pepperberg, watch your back!
The new parrot authority in the neighborhood is none other than Becky Fox (‘96). She wrapped up a Ph.D. at UC Davis, where she studied things like parrots’ neophobia and whether well-matched parrot parents do a better job of raising [...]

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Dept. of Fiascoes

Clare Aslan (‘96), an NSF IGERT fellow in UC Davis’s top-ranked ecology/evolutionary biology program, is entering the critical stage of her doctoral research on various birds’ roles in the distribution of invasive plants.
She’s hoping not to repeat last February’s experience:
I had live birds that were sick and dying, so I was in the lab force-feeding [...]

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Direct from the Green Zone

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, during a visit back to the United States, he stopped by the Foundation with his wife [...]

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The esq. ledger

Diana Rutowski (’96) is practicing law in Silicon Valley for Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe. Her clients include various high-technology companies, including Facebook and developers of several Facebook applications.

Michael Valek (’96) works for the law firm of Vinson and Elkins LLP in Austin, Tex. A fourth-year associate, Michael’s practice is in intellectual property litigation, primarily [...]

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