Space Videos:

• Anna Barth '17 and Emma Jin '17 created this video on Finding Exoplanets & Center of Mass
• Alex Lockwood '03 helped to create this video for the Space Telescope Science Institute: How Do We Learn About a Planet's Atmosphere?
• Amir Caspi '96 narrates the intro for a new AOL web series: Space Pirates.

• Hormuzd Katki '92 et al., Implications of Nine Risk Prediction Models for Selecting Ever-Smokers for Computed Tomography Lung Cancer Screening (Annals of Internal Medicine)
• Nicole Hindman '93, Imaging of Cystic Renal Masses (Urologic Clinics)
• K. Paarporn, C. Eksin, and Joshua Weitz '93, Information sharing for a coordination game in fluctuating environments (Journal of Theoretical Biology)
• Michael Forbes '95 and A. Shpilka, A PSPACE construction of a hitting set for the closure of small algebraic circuits (Proceedings of the 50th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing)
• Miranda Mockrin '95, H.K. Fishler, and S.I. Stewart, Does Wildfire Open a Policy Window? Local Government and Community Adaptation After Fire in the United States (Environmental Management)
• Elinor Lichtenberg '99, R.E. Irwin, and J.L. Bronstein, Costs and benefits of alternative food handling tactics help explain facultative exploitation of pollination mutualisms (Ecology)
• Yevgeny Brudno '00 et al., Replenishable drug depot to combat post-resection cancer recurrence (Biomaterials)
• K. Manohar, Bingni Wen Brunton '02, J.N. Kutz, and S.L. Brunton, Data-Driven Sparse Sensor Placement for Reconstruction: Demonstrating the Benefits of Exploiting Known Patterns (IEEE Control Systems)
• A. Butler, P. Hoffman, P. Smibert, E. Papalexi, and Rahul Satija '02, Integrating single-cell transcriptomic data across different conditions, technologies, and species (Nature Biotechnology)
• Kristina Cammen '03 et al., Genomic signatures of population bottleneck and recovery in Northwest Atlantic pinnipeds (Ecology and Evolution)
• J.C. Hawthorne and Noel Bartlow '04, Observing and Modeling the Spectrum of a Slow Slip Event (Journal of Geophysical Research)
• JH Kim, J.P. Rothstein, and Jessica Shang '04, Dynamics of a flexible superhydrophobic surface during a drop impact (Physics of Fluids)
• Jean Fan '09 et al., Linking transcriptional and genetic tumor heterogeneity through allele analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data (Genome Research)

Interviews:

• Lorrie Cranor '89 was interviewed for a Wall Street Journal article about using a password manager, and a Popular Science article about two-factor authentication.
• Jonah Berger '98 was interviewed on NPR's Hidden Brain about social influence and Jersey Shore.
• Ananth Hirsh '01 was interviewed at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival about his webcomic, Johnny Wander.
• Elizabeth Green '02 was interviewed by Mm.LaFleur, sharing a story about her start in journalism at Silver Chips.
• Erik Agard '11 was introduced as the new crossword puzzle maker at the Arizona Star. He also helped to construct the New York Times crossword puzzles for May 13th, May 24th, June 17th, July 16th, August 5th, and August 14th.

• In the 2018 Maryland Primary Election in Montgomery County:
• Craig Rice '90 won the Democratic primary for County Council, District 2
• Marcus Alzona '89 won the Republican primary for State Senator, District 16
• Samir Paul '06, fell 12 votes short of the top three in the Democratic primary for State Delegate, District 16 (Bethesda Magazine)
• Aaron Klein '94 wrote for Brookings Institute about the start of the U.S.-China Trade War.
• Alex Epstein '98 spoke at the Energy Disruptors conference (YouTube)
• Sarah Oh '00 testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation at a Hearing on Trends in Mobile Technologies.
• Michael Yin '18 testified before the Federal Commission on School Safety, eliciting a response from the Deputy Secretary of Education (WJLA)

In Memoriam: Stephen Acton '02, passed away on July 30th in Washington, DC. He is survived by his wife, parents, and brother Mark Acton '96. Stephen was a member of the District of Columbia Fire & EMS Department, and donations in his honor can be made to the D.C. Firefighters Burn Foundation.

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