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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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Kate Petersen (‘00), who also has a story in Issue 65 of Quarterly West, has a new piece in Brevity, a journal focusing on short-form nonfiction essays.
Kate’s essay isn’t really about a fierce dog (despite the accompanying picture of a fierce dog). It’s more about this:
I know sounds, too: the crystal wink of a champagne [...]

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Esther Cardona Sandel (‘00) was one of the five professional dancers–along with about a hundred kiddies and other amateurs, plus presents, gussied-up trees, etc.–on stage last month for maestro Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker at the Fox Theater in Redwood City, CA.
Esther’s also instructing for the Spotlight Arts Academy of Dance and Music on the other side of [...]

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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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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 provided editorial guidance to Marwan Sabbagh for his new book, The Alzheimer’s Answer: Reduce Your Risk [...]

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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 Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, a multi-institution research effort to lay the groundwork for synthetic biology.
Lest [...]

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