Dr. Flanagan came to Vermont in 1961 after receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Washington with B.S. Rabinovitch and doing postdoctorate research at Queen's University, Belfast, and Brookhaven National Laboratories He has twice been a Fulbright Research Scholar, and was selected the University Scholar in the Physical Sciences 1985-86. He was awarded Doctor of Philosophy "honoris causa" from Uppsala University (Sweden), 1992.