Montgomery Blair 85/20 Celebration: The Blair Alumni Association is celebrating the 85th anniversary of Blair High School and the 20th anniversary of the Four Corners campus on Saturday, November 2nd. Craig Rice, Class of '90, will be the first Magnet alum inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame! Register online. More details at blairalumni.org.
Awards, Scholarships, Grants and Fellowships:
Academic Milestones:
- Alenda Chang '94 received tenure at the University of California, Santa Barbara (pdf)
- Ani Manichaikul '99 received tenure at the University of Virginia (@UVaSOMFacDev)
- Bingni Wen Brunton '02 received tenure at the University of Washington (@bingbrunton)
- Emily Jones '10 successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis at the University of California, San Francisco (@EmilyAsterJones)
Research Publications:
- S. Zaccara, R.J. Ries, and Samie Jaffrey '89, Reading, writing and erasing mRNA methylation (Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology)
- E. Hoque and Maneesh Agrawala '90, Searching the Visual Style and Structure of D3 Visualizations (IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics)
- S. Jain, et al., and David Weinstock '90, Targeted Inhibition of CD47-SIRPα Requires Fc-FcγR Interactions to Maximize Activity in T-cell Lymphomas (Blood)
- Hormuzd Katki '92, et al., Basing eligibility for lung cancer screening on individualized risk calculators should save more lives, but life-expectancy matters (Journal of the National Cancer Institute)
- S. Fan, et al., and Minjoo L. Lee '94, 20%-efficient epitaxial GaAsP/Si tandem solar cells (Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells)
- Eric Sun '96, et al., Assessment of Out-of-Network Billing for Privately Insured Patients Receiving Care in In-Network Hospitals (JAMA Internal Medicine)
- S. Bellezza and Jonah Berger '98, Trickle-Round Signals: When Low Status Is Mixed with High (Journal of Consumer Research)
- Ani Manichaikul '99, et al., Identification of novel epithelial ovarian cancer loci in women of African ancestry (Cancer Epidemiology)
- D. Erman, S.V. Sam, and Andrew Snowden '00, Big polynomial rings and Stillman’s conjecture (Inventiones mathematicae)
- Cynthia Chang '01 and J. HilleRisLambers, Trait and phylogenetic patterns reveal deterministic community assembly mechanisms on Mount St. Helens (Plant Ecology)
- Aleta Quinn '01, Diagnosing Discordance: Signal in Data, Conflict in Paradigms (Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology)
- Bingni Wen Brunton '02 and M. Beyeler, Data-driven models in human neuroscience and neuroengineering (Current Opinion in Neurobiology)
- Melodi Javid Whitley '03, et al., Papulonecrotic tuberculid and Poncet disease: A case of multisystem delayed-type hypersensitivity in a patient with Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (JAAD Case Reports)
- Sophia Strike '03 and M.E. Puhaindran, Nerve Tumors of the Upper Extremity (Clinics in Plastic Surgery)
- Ning Bao '04 and J. Liu, Quantum algorithms for conformal bootstrap (Nuclear Physics B)
- Alex Berger '04, et al., Long-Term Risk of Reoperation After Synthetic Mesh Midurethral Sling Surgery for Stress Urinary Incontinence (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
- A.C. Quillen, et al., and Jessica Shang '04, A Light-Weight Vibrational Motor Powered Recoil Robot That Hops Rapidly Across Granular Media (Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics)
- R. Simon and Noah Simon '04, Finding the intended use population for a new treatment (Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics)
- K.A. Schival, et al., and Emily Tsui '04, Photoinduced Surface Charging in Iron-Carbonyl-Functionalized Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals (Nano Letters)
- Wilma Bainbridge '05, et al., Memorability of photographs in subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment: Implications for cognitive assessment (Alzheimer's and Dementia)
- S.B. Maamar, J. Hu, and Erica Hartmann '05, Implications of indoor microbial ecology and evolution on antibiotic resistance (Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology)
- Shwetadwip Chowdhury ‘06, et al., High-resolution 3D refractive index microscopy of multiple-scattering samples from intensity images (Optica)
- J. Zhou and I. Schor et al., incl. Victoria Yao '07, Accurate genome-wide predictions of spatio-temporal gene expression during embryonic development(PLOS Genetics)
- C. Xia, Jean Fan '09, and G. Emanuel, et al., Spatial transcriptome profiling by MERFISH reveals subcellular RNA compartmentalization and cell cycle-dependent gene expression (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
- M.J. Kellner, J.G. Koob, Jonathan Gootenberg '09, O.O. Abudayyeh, and F. Zhang, SHERLOCK: nucleic acid detection with CRISPR nucleases (Nature Protocols)
- Aarti Kolluri '11 and M. Ho, The Role of Glypican-3 in Regulating Wnt, YAP, and Hedgehog in Liver Cancer (Frontiers in Oncology)
- L. Einav et al., incl. Abigail Ostriker '12, Screening and Selection: The Case of Mammograms (NBER Working Paper) (@pursuingabbynes)
- Leora Goldbloom-Helzner '13, et al., Developing Regenerative Treatments for Developmental Defects, Injuries, and Diseases Using Extracellular Matrix Collagen-Targeting Peptides (International Journal of Molecular Science)
- Jared Duker Lichtman '14, G. Martin, and C. Pomerance, Primes in prime number races (Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society)
- G. Brunner, Mazda Moayeri ’16, et al., Neural Symbolic Music Genre Transfer Insights (12th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Music) (hmc.edu) (pdf)
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