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Awards and Recognition:
Academics:
- Noah Ryder '95 is the faculty advisor for UMDLoop, the University of Maryland's Hyperloop team, who recently took their prototype to the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition in California (WTOP).
- Jacob Lurie '96, a mathematics professor at Harvard, has updated his book, Higher Algebra, which is available for free download (pdf).
- Jonathan Needleman '99 is an associate professor of mathematics at LeMoyne College, where he is a co-investigator on an NSF grant to prepare undergraduate STEM majors to be secondary teachers.
- Bingni Wen Brunton '02, a biology professor at the University of Washington, was awarded a grant from the U.S. Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program.
- Rahul Satija '02 was awarded a grant from the Human Cell Atlas project of the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative to support his immune system research at the New York Genome Center (pdf).
- Griffith Rees '03 finished his doctorate in Sociology at Oxford University.
- Emily Tsui '04 joined the faculty in Chemistry at the University of Notre Dame.
- Michael Forbes '05 joined the faculty in Computer Science at the University of Illinois.
- Nathan Blustein '06, a Ph.D. candidate in music theory at Indiana University, is an instructor and music director at American University.
- Emily Jones '10 received a Genentech Fellowship for her graduate studies at UCSF.
Research Journal Publications:
Matias Duarte reminisces about BlairFrom Surface Magazine's interview of Matias Duarte '92:
In 1988, Duarte enrolled at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. He had been selected as part of a “magnet” program for math, science, and computer science students that was, as he puts it, “intended to do two things: one was to better serve students who were high potential for these fields; the other was to increase the ethnic diversity at the area’s schools. At least that’s how I understood it.”
“The chance for me to go to this school was like Harry Potter going to Hogwarts, almost literally,” he says. “The school itself was this fascinating rabbit warren of old, interconnected buildings. It was a maze—there were places faculty didn’t know how to get to. It really had this character of taking you to another world that was Baroque, fantastical, half-functioning.” The school, at the same time, provided access to computers, robotics, and other cutting-edge tools. A lab there was outfitted with Macintoshes, some of them with hard drives—a rarity at the time. There was also a VAX computer. It was there that Duarte had his first interaction with the internet, and during his sophomore year he even got an email address, which he admits he “never did anything with.”
Arts, Entertainment, and Sports:
Political Commentary and Activism:
- Joshua Fischman '90, a U.Va. Law Professor, contributed to a FiveThirtyEight analysis of Justice Gorsuch's ideology.
- Josh Oppenheimer '92 was recognized by U.S. Senator Tom Udall, Voice of America, and the New York Times, for the impact that his Oscar-nominated documentary films Act of Killing and Look of Silence had in publicizing the 1965-66 Indonesian massacre and leading to the declassification of related U.S. government documents (nsarchive.gwu.edu).
- Aaron Klein '94, a Brookings Fellow, proposed 3 policies for improving economic growth; he also wrote about the problems with credit reports (CNBC).
- Gautam Mukunda '97, a Harvard Business School Professor, was interviewed by the Washington Post about John Kelly's management of the White House.
- Greg Sanders '98, Vice-President of Purple Line Now, spoke to Bethesda Magazine at the groundbreaking of the Purple Line in August.
- Reena Arora '99, a lawyer with the Urban Justice Center, was interviewed by the New York Daily News about her representation of domestic workers in a lawsuit against their German diplomat employers.
- Alex Berengaut '99, spoke to the New York Times about his representation Janet Napolitano and the University of California system in a lawsuit challenging the rescission of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
- Tom Hunsicker '00 of WUSA9 Sports, shared his opinion that kneeling during the national anthem is as American as it gets.
- Sarah Oh '00, a research fellow and economist with the Tech Policy Institute, was interviewed by CNET about restoring Puerto Rico's telecommunications infrastructure.
- Brinda Thomas '01 submitted comments in response to the Department of Energy's proposed rulemaking for grid resiliency payments for coal and nuclear power plants.
- Jeff Guo '07, writing for Vox, analyzed President Trump's support in battleground districts.
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