Posted in 2005, 2008, Matt Hom, Melissa Lamberton, Phoenix Mars Mission, UA on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re starting to understand why the Phoenix Mars Mission was only scheduled for three months of digging holes and making sand castles on the Red Planet. Now in their fifth month of mind-bending 24.66-hour days, even the most sedate scientists have gone loopy.
Here’s the latest list of names they’ve given pebbles and other random things:
Headless [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Posted in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, ASU, Alan Mackey, Anthropology, Brian Indrelunas, Brittany (Erwin) Shaw, Business, Christina Kwong, Circumnavigators, David Hernandez, Devin Mauney, Dustin Cox, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater Scholarship, Ke Wu, Lara Cardy, Margo Neff, Marshall Scholarship, Mathematics, Megan McGinnity, Michael Mitchell, Truman Scholarship, UA on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in 2005, NSEP, Nicole Rennell, Public Health, South Africa on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For other Scholars who might be in the neighborhood and looking for a familiar face, we have a travel itinerary and a few amazing photos (after the jump) from NSEPer Nicole Rennell (‘05), who’s spending the year in South Africa:
I have been wandering purposefully around South Africa finishing up my second semester of a [...]
Posted in 1992, 1993, 2005, ASU, Anthropology, Berkeley, Carnegie Hall, Ecuador, Jeremiah Loverich, Kevin Jernigan, Lost Canyon, Matthew Petterson, Poetry, Rock and Roll Lifestyle on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Six months to go until the world premiere of Lost Canyon II, and everywhere we turn, people are already getting revved up for the talent show. We just saw three hacky sack prodigies doing calisthenics out on the quad.
Regarding the talent show: The eight-member Rules Committee has just issued a press release that reiterates a [...]
Posted in 2005, Mozambique, NSEP, Nicole Rennell, Public Health, South Africa on October 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
According to reports emerging from our Cape Town bureau, NSEP scholar Nicole Rennell (‘05) is putting her time in South Africa to excellent use, improving her command of Xhosa while she works in a public-health clinic. She isn’t just surfing the fast right break at Tofinho.
But enough preemptive defenses. Let’s go to a diary excerpt:
At [...]
Posted in 2001, 2005, Ben Strauber, Brazil, Devin Mauney, India, Leslie Harris, NSEP, Nicole Rennell, South Africa on September 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Over on the Foundation’s website back in May, Leslie Harris (‘01) reported on the latest batch of Scholars named NSEP Scholars–Devin Mauney (‘05), Nicole Rennell (‘05), and Ben Strauber (‘05), whose awards are sponsoring study in, respectively, Brazil, South Africa, and India.
