Featured in this newsletter:
- Amazonian Archaeology: Anna Browne Ribeiro '99 is exploring pre-Columbian Amazonian settlements.
- Medication Management: Hareesh Ganesan '08 co-founded a company to help patients manage their medications.
- Fluidly Focused (from Silver Quest): Jessica Shang '04 runs a lab researching hydrodynamics.
Awards, Scholarships and Prizes:
Academic Publications:
- R.J. Ries et al., and Samie Jaffrey '89, m6A enhances the phase separation potential of mRNA (Nature Letters)
- M. Ghandi et al., incl. David Weinstock '90, Next-generation characterization of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (Nature)
- M. van de Kerk D. P. Onorato, Jeffrey Hostetler '92 et al., Dynamics, Persistence, and Genetic Management of the Endangered Florida Panther Population (Wildlife Monographs)
- Hormuzd Katki '92, Quantifying risk stratification provided by diagnostic tests and risk predictions: Comparison to AUC and decision curve analysis (Statistics in Medicine)
- T.M. Finegan and Dan Bergstralh '93, Division orientation: disentangling shape and mechanical forces (Cell Cycle)
- Nicole Hindman '93, How Low Can We Go?: The Very Low Limits of Iodine Detection and Quantification in Dual-Energy CT (Radiology)
- A.R. Maiuri, S.S. Savant, R. Podicheti, D.B. Rusch, and Heather O'Hagan '94, DNA methyltransferase inhibition reduces inflammation-induced colon tumorigenesis (Epigenetics)
- A.H. Chang and Patricio Vela '94, Evaluation of Bio-Inspired Scales on Locomotion Performance of Snake-Like Robots (Robotica)
- Nikki Privé '95 and R.M. Errico, Uncertainty of observation impact estimation in an adjoint model investigated with an Observing System Simulation Experiment (Monthly Weather Review)
- L. Sharp, R. Salari, and Grace Brannigan '96, Boundary lipids of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor: Spontaneous partitioning via coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation (BBA Biomembranes)
- Jacob Lurie '96, Elliptic Cohomology III: Tempered Cohomology (pdf)
- S. Breiner, Carl Miller '97, and N.J. Ross, Graphical Methods in Device-Independent Quantum Cryptography(Quantum)
- A.B. Van Zant, Jonah Berger '98, How the voice persuades (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
- B.J. Thomson et al. and Caleb Fasset '98, How Much of the Sediment in Gale Crater's Central Mound Was Fluvially Transported? (Geophysical Research Letters)
- D.J. Grant, Ani Manichaikul '99 et al., Evaluation of vitamin D biosynthesis and pathway target genes reveals UGT2A1/2 and EGFR polymorphisms associated with epithelial ovarian cancer in African American Women (Cancer Medicine)
- L.W. Clark et al. and Jonathan Simon '00, Interacting Floquet polaritons (Nature)
- T. Stuart et al. and Rahul Satija '02, Comprehensive Integration of Single-Cell Data (Cell)
- R. Curtu, X. Wang, Bingni Wen Brunton '02, and K. Nourski, Neural signatures of auditory perceptual bistability revealed by large-scale human intracranial recordings (The Journal of Neuroscience)
- Ning Bao '04 and I.F. Halpern, Conditional and multipartite entanglements of purification and holography (Physical Review D)
- M. Ballesteros II and Emily Tsui '04, Reactivity of Zinc Thiolate Bonds: Oxidative Organopolysulfide Formation and S3 Insertion (Inorganic Chemistry)
- J. Hu et al., and Erica Hartmann '05, Impacts of indoor surface finishes on bacterial viability (Indoor Air)
- Rachel Kirsch '06 and A.J. Radcliffe, Many Triangles with Few Edges (The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics)
- John Silberholz '06, D. Bertsimas, and L. Vahdat, Clinical benefit, toxicity and cost of metastatic breast cancer therapies: systematic review and meta-analysis (Breast Cancer Research and Treatment)
- P. Plager, Margot Zarin-Pass '06, and M.B. Pitt, References to Netflix’ “13 Reasons Why” at clinical presentation among 31 pediatric patients (Journal of Children and Media)
- O. Abudayyeh, Jonathan Gootenberg '09, et al., A cytosine deaminase for programmable single-base RNA editing (Science)
- R. Najm, Emily Jones '10, and Y. Huang, Apolipoprotein E4, inhibitory network dysfunction, and Alzheimer’s disease (Molecular Neurodegeneration)
- Michelle N. Meyer et al., incl. William Cai '13, Objecting to experiments that compare two unobjectionable policies or treatments (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science)
Appointments:
- Elinor Lichtenberg '99 is joining the University of North Texas faculty as an Assistant Professor of Biology. (@UNTScience)
- Wilma Bainbridge '05 is joining the University of Chicago faculty as an Assistant Professor of Psychology.
- Martino Choi '05 was appointed chaplain for the Newman Catholic Center at George Washington University and director of the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of Washington.
- Jordyn Wolfand '07 is joining the University of Portland faculty as an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. (@UPortland)
On Screen, On Stage, In Print:
Politics, Policy, and Activism:
Blogs, Podcasts, and Videos:
- Jess Zimmerman '97 was married in New York in May (@j_zimms)
- Nick Stone '04 was married in Maryland in July (New York Times)
- Eric Su '07 was married in California in May (New York Times)
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