Magnet Alumni News: Spring 2023
Academic Honors:
Grace Brannigan '96 won the Rutgers-Camden Presidential Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award
Zeki Mokhtarzada '96 was the commencement speaker for the UMD College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
Tim Buschman '97 won the National Academy of Sciences Troland Research Award
Fellowships:
Abby Ostriker '12 will be an Environmental Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Clare Singer '14 will be a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow.
Six alumni were awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships:
Scientific Journal Publications:
Biology:
Q. Hou and Samie Jaffrey '89, Synthetic biology tools to promote the folding and function of RNA aptamers in mammalian cells (RNA Biology)
B. Jiang, David Weinstock '90, et al., ITK degradation to block T cell receptor signaling and overcome therapeutic resistance in T cell lymphomas (Cell Chemical Biology)
A.J. Roberts, Jeffrey Hostetler '92, et al., Population dynamics and harvest management of eastern mallards (Journal of Wildlife Management)
N.S. Dawney, et al., and Dan Bergstralh '93, A novel tool for the unbiased characterization of epithelial monolayer development in culture (Molecular Biology of the Cell)
S.W. Park, et al., and Joshua Weitz '93, Intermediate levels of asymptomatic transmission can lead to the highest epidemic fatalities (PNAS Nexus)
G.O. Bozdag, et al., incl. Anthony Burnetti '07, De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity (Nature)
Genomics:
K. Hou, et al., incl. Ani Manichaikul '99, Causal effects on complex traits are similar for common variants across segments of different continental ancestries within admixed individuals (Nature Genetics)
E.V. Koonin, Jonathan Gootenberg '09, and O.O. Abudayyeh, Discovery of Diverse CRISPR-Cas Systems and Expansion of the Genome Engineering Toolbox (Biochemistry)
W-W Liao, et al., incl. Anastasiya Belyaeva ‘11, A draft human pangenome reference (Nature)
Medical Research:
Sophia Lin '91, et al., Curated collections for educators: Nine key articles and article series for teaching qualitative research methods (AEM Education and Training)
R. Landy, et al., and Hormuzd Katki '92, Recalibration of a Deep Learning Model for Low-Dose Computed Tomographic Images to Inform Lung Cancer Screening Intervals (JAMA Network Open)
M.E. Dyson and Arash Kimyai-Asadi '92, Cerebriform eruption related to acute coral dermatitis (Dermatology Online)
S.J. Rosen, et al., and Nicole Hindman '93, Accuracy of Ultrasound Imaging for Etiology of New-Onset Painless Jaundice (J. Comp. Assisted Tomography)
A.L. Du, C.A. Rishel, and Eric Sun '96, Association Between Naloxone Co-Prescription Mandates and Post-Operative Outcomes (Annals of Surgery)
C.T. Moody, et al., and Yevgeny Brudno '00, Loading Intracranial Drug-Eluting Reservoirs Across the Blood–Brain Barrier With Focused Ultrasound (Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology)
Byron Drumheller '02, Treatment success and outcomes of in-hospital food choking incidents... A hard truth to swallow (Resuscitation)
Ximena Levander '02, et al., A gender-based secondary analysis of the ADAPT-2 combination naltrexone and bupropion treatment for methamphetamine use disorder trial (Addiction)
Cynthia Xu '08, et al., Visualization of cardiac uptake of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles after intramyocardial or intravenous injection in murine myocardial infarction (Physiological Reports)
Y. Sun, et al., incl. Debattama Sen '09, Targeting TBK1 to overcome resistance to cancer immunotherapy (Nature)
A.E. Arai and Allison Arai '10, Incident Cognitive Dysfunction Is Associated With Ischemic Heart Disease: Insights From the UK Biobank (JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging)
Physics:
P. Dhingra, et al., and Minjoo Larry Lee '94, Low-threshold visible InP quantum dot and InGaP quantum well lasers grown by molecular beam epitaxy (J. Applied Physics)
A. Kumar, et al., and Jonathan Simon '00, Quantum-enabled millimetre wave to optical transduction using neutral atoms (Nature)
Ning Bao '04 and J. Naskar, Reconstruction wedges in AdS/CFT with boundary fractallike structures (Physical Review D)
William Cody Burton '08, et al., Transport of Multispecies Ion Crystals through a Junction in a Radio-Frequency Paul Trap (Physical Review Letters)
Astronomy and Planetary Science:
T.A. Goudge, Caleb Fasset '98, et al., Assessing Controls on the Incomplete Draining of Martian Open-Basin Lakes (JGR Planets)
D.M. Malaspina, et al., incl. Marc Pulupa '99, A Dust Detection Database for the Inner Heliosphere Using the Parker Solar Probe Spacecraft (Astrophysics Journal Supp.)
A. Carillo, et al., incl. Robyn Sanderson '99, The Relationship between Age, Metallicity, and Abundances for Disk Stars in a Simulated Milky Way (Astrophysics Journal)
Y. Alush and Nicholas Stone '04, Revisiting stellar orbits and the Sgr A∗ quadrupole moment (Physical Review D)
H. Manelski, R. Sheppard, Abigail Fraeman '05, et al., Compositional Variations in Sedimentary Deposits in Gale Crater as Observed by ChemCam Passive and Active Spectra (Journal of Geophysical Research Planets)
J.S. Pineda and Jackie Villadsen '05, Coherent radio bursts from known M-dwarf planet-host YZ Ceti (Nature Astronomy)
Chemistry:
J.T. Stoffel and Emily Tsui '04, Stability Effects of Selective Anion Abstraction from Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals (J. Phys. Chem. C)
W.A. Arnold, et al., incl. Erica Hartmann '05, Quaternary Ammonium Compounds: A Chemical Class of Emerging Concern (Environmental Science & Technology)
C.J. Jensen, et al., incl. Purnima Balakrishnan '09, Nitrogen-Based Magneto-ionic Manipulation of Exchange Bias in CoFe/MnN Heterostructures (ACS Nano)
J. Xu, Lori Kaufman '12, et al., Effects of Ball Milling on the Electrochemical Capacity and Interfacial Stability of Li2MnO3 Cathode Materials (ACS Applied Energy Materials)
Engineering/Materials:
S. Kim and David Hu '97, Onggi’s permeability to carbon dioxide accelerates kimchi fermentation (Royal Society Interface)
Aaditya Chandrasekar ‘09, FRC-TOuNN: Topology Optimization of Continuous Fiber Reinforced Composites using Neural Network (Computer-Aided Design)
Mathematics:
A. Putnam and Andrew Snowden '00, The Steinberg representation is irreducible (Duke Mathematical Journal)
J. Feng and Noah Simon '00, Ensembled sparse-input hierarchical networks for high-dimensional datasets (Statistical Analysis and Data Mining)
Psychology:
R. Boghrati and Jonah Berger '98, Quantifying cultural change: Gender bias in music (Journal of Experimental Psychology)
M.A. Kramer, et al., and Wilma Bainbridge '05, The features underlying the memorability of objects (Science Advances)
Geography and Sustainability:
T.J. Hawbaker, et al., incl. Miranda Mockrin '95, Changes in wildfire occurrence and risk to homes from 1990 through 2019 in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA (Ecosphere)
Luke Bergmann '98, et al., Dominant Modes of Agricultural Production Helped Structure Initial COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. Midwest (ISPRS Int'l J. Geo-Information)
C.T. Clavin, Jennifer Helgeson '02, et al., A Call for a National Community Resilience Extension Partnership to Bridge Resilience Research to Communities (npj Urban Sustainability)
In the News:
Aaron Klein '94 writes in the Washington Post: The Fed shouldn’t be regulating banks
Prayag Gordy '20 co-writes in the Rice Thresher: ‘Screwball antics’: Tracing the history of Beer Bike
Kushboo Rathore '20 writes in the Diamondback: It’s not easy trying to embrace my culture again, but I’m starting to rediscover it
Anika Seth '21 is the new Editor in Chief of the Yale Daily News
Alumni Profiles:
Alex Lockwood '03 was interviewed on the AGU's Third Pod from the Sun.
Kristin Mink '03 was interviewed in Silver Chips.
Jordy Goldstein '06 is a Space Simulation Test Labs Manager at SpaceX.
Simeon Kakpovi '14 is a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst at Microsoft.