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 [...]
Archive for the ‘2000’ Category
We’re soooo 21st-century now
Posted in 1991, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, Amy Stabler, Anna Thanukos, Clare (Ellsworth) Aslan, David Hernandez, Esther Cardona Sandel, John Ingraham, Lost Canyon, Matt Hom, Matthew Petterson, Mitch Turbenson, Nicole Rennell, Sam Wang, Sarah Trainor, Sean Aiken, Wayne Shen, Zeb Hogan on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The soul of wit
Posted in 2000, Kate Petersen, Writing on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
благодарю Вас, P.I. Tchaikovsky
Posted in 2000, Bay Area, Dance, Esther Cardona Sandel on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
End-of-2007 Superlatives
Posted in 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2000, AJ Morales, Astronomy, BYU, Bay Area, Business, Columbia, Comedy, Computer Science, Denver, Jonathan Furst, Ka Chun Yu, Law, NYU, New York, Psychology, Sarah Calvert on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
The prescription for prescribers
Posted in 2000, Boston, Kate Petersen, Pharmaceuticals, Public Policy, Writing on September 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Ah, those wild and crazy PoETs…
Posted in 2000, Boston, MIT, Political Science, Rachel Wellhausen, The Hot Zone on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
