Leading the A-Team

Everybody knows, the main reason to go to college is to get free pizza at meetings of random honoraries, service clubs, and laboratory groups.
Dustin Cox (‘04) isn’t a college student anymore, but he’s still getting free food. Tonight, it’s a black-tie-optional dinner, presented by the Hon Kachina Council.
For his untiring work with Anytown Arizona, and [...]

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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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Let the floodgates open

And here comes some more coverage of the 23rd class of Scholars:
The Tucson Citizen offered a profile of Jason Xu (‘08) and another of David Ware (‘08) as part of the paper’s coverage of this spring’s area graduates. They also ran a story on all four new Scholars from the Tucson area–Jason, David, Alice Cai [...]

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Can we get some applause? (updated)

For Lara Cardy (‘05) and Michael Mitchell (‘06), announced as 2008 Goldwater Scholars;
For Dustin Cox (‘03), winner of a UA Pillar of Excellence Award;
For David Hernandez (‘04), finalist for the Marshall and Gates-Cambridge Scholarships, and selected as outstanding senior in the UA Department of Astronomy;
For Brian Indrelunas (‘04), named editor of the State Press for [...]

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Unoficially

Officially, there was no Foundation-sponsored trip to CEDO this spring.

To which something like 30 current Scholars and alums said, “Yeah, well, we know how to read maps. And we’ve got enough gas to get at least as far as Ajo…”

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Make your very own galaxy

David Hernandez (‘04), at UA’s Undergraduate Research Forum, explains how to combine a few ingredients–stars, dark matter, swiss cheese–to create a galaxy. And he spills the beans on his possible destinations for doctoral work, MIT and Cambridge:

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Reporting for the State Press, Cape Town bureau

We haven’t done a double-blind study or anything, but it sure looks like veterans of the journalism machine at ASU have an inside track to employment as scribes in southern Africa. See here and here, for starters.
The latest wordsmith to make the jump is Brian Indrelunas (‘04), who will graduate from ASU in December. For [...]

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Watch out for sea lions

Annie Roethel (‘04) is wayyy far away from her usual haunts around ASU. For those of you with GPS chips embedded behind your ear, she’s at coordinates -53.166667,-70.933333. For the rest of us, we’re talking about Punta Arenas, Chile, which is literally the southernmost city on Earth.
Annie’s teaching English through March, hanging out on a [...]

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A-Town, a man, a plan, a canal, Panama, nwota

Wow, we love palindromes. There’s somebody on The Internets who has invented one as long as The Merchant of Venice. It doesn’t make sense, but it uses real words, unlike this dumb”nwota” thing.
But where were we?
Oh, right: Dustin Cox (‘04)! As the UA News tells it, he has successfully worked to create A-Town, a collaboration [...]

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Meet Dustin Cox

Dustin Cox (‘04) was the subject of the April, 2007 installment of the Meet-a-Scholar series on the Foundation’s website. He talks about diversity and politics and hope and the future and stuff like that, here.

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