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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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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Megan McGinnity rules another news cycle

Megan McGinnity (‘03), named a Marshall Scholar in November, keeps racking up the honors. She’s just been announced as one of 20 members of USA Today’s 2008 All-USA College Academic First Team. Here’s the paper’s pithy statement:
For Megan McGinnity, 22, a senior at Arizona State University, the beginnings of her life’s work took root in [...]

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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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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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Michel Becquet, watch your back

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 [...]

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To do: Get that Fleetwood Mac song out of your head

Well, don’t put it past Justin Kiggins (‘02). He’s a pretty versatile guy. 
As evidence, we submit the two-page feature spread in the current magazine-ish thing for the Fulton School of Engineering at ASU. A rather impressed writer chronicles Justin’s arrival on campus as a would-be professional oboist, his pathway to bioengineering, and his way-cool research on music [...]

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Meet Anne Marie Norgren

Anne Marie Norgren (’06) is the latest victim of the Meet-a-Scholar series on the Foundation’s website. She sets the record straight on immigration, clean water, coffee farming, and Camp Sparky, here.

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