The Flinn Scholars Program

BusinessWeek, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News... As global economic turmoil has continued in the second half of 2011, one news outlet after another has turned to Flinn Scholar alumna Sara Zervos ('87).

Halfway through her studies at one of the nation's premier medical schools, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minn., Nicole Person-Rennell has passed her Step 1 board exams and is nearing the end of a summertime surgery rotation at Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale campus. But her time in her home state is short; in September, the 2005 Flinn Scholar will step away from medical school for a year to complete a master's degree in public health at Cambridge University in England. Funding her studies is one of the world's most prestigious post-graduate prizes, the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.

In late May, the Flinn Scholars Program made its annual pilgrimage across the Atlantic for the Central European Seminar. A cornerstone of the program, the seminar inserted the entire 2010 class--Scholars who had just completed their first year of college--into Hungary and Serbia for three weeks of--

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Sunday evening at its annual Recognition Dinner, the Flinn Scholars Program will honor 17 dedicated, diversely talented graduating seniors. The latest additions to the Flinn Scholars' 400-strong alumni community are stepping into new roles in education, business, research, and the nonprofit sector. 

Twenty of the most talented high-school seniors in Arizona have earned the 2011 Flinn Scholarship, one of the nation’s most prestigious awards for undergraduate studies. In August, the newest Flinn Scholars will arrive on the campuses of Arizona’s public universities with eye-popping academic credentials and established records of service to their schools and communities.

Each year, current Flinn Scholars participate in exclusive seminars on important topics at the intersection of public policy and key related disciplines. Last month, the Scholars met to discuss the emergence of personalized medicine, and its implications in a variety of realms, from cancer treatment to global health. Joining the Scholars were several experts on the topics at hand, including Scholar alumnus Gene Bukhman ('91), cardiology director for Partners in Health.