Magnet Alumni News: Winter 2017

Distinguished Alumnus: Matías Duarte '92 was recognized with the Magnet Foundation's Distinguished Alumni Award on January 12, 2017.

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Lorrie Cranor '89 finished her term as the Chief Technologist at the FTC, and she was profiled in the Washington University Engineering School Alumni Magazine.
Robert Pless '90 is the new chair of the Computer Science Department at George Washington University.
Carl Miller '97 is the newest Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science at the University of Maryland.
Nora Achrati '99 is a member of the cast of Intelligence, a new play opening late February at Arena Stage in Washington, DC.
Brittany Cheng '13 has started a full-time position at sports media site SBNation (@ChengBrittany).

Research:

Joshua Weitz '93 completed a study showing how tragedies of the commons might be averted; he was interviewed on Georgia Public Radio.
Aaron Klein '94, completed research studying the benefits and costs of key provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act on financial stability and economic growth
Amir Caspi '96 completed research in Antarctica last year to qualify X-ray detectors for solar flares, and he recently won a NASA grant to image the August 2017 solar eclipse using airborne telescopes.
David Hu' 97 published research on the mechanics of frog tongues; he was interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine and the New York Times.
Emily Yanisko '98 published research about tracked students in the Journal of Urban Mathematics Education.

Books, Articles, Poems, Puzzles, and Television:

Rosamond King '92 is an author and poet, and an English Professor at Brooklyn College.

Two poems from her book Rock|Salt|Stone were recently published in Aster(ix).
Her poem Sea Garden was the National Academy of Poets' Poem-a-Day for January 24, 2017.

Helen Fields '93 wrote a feature article about the curation of the collection for American Museum of African-American History in the GW Alumni Magazine.
Cynthia Addai-Robinson '98 was interviewed by Rotten Tomatoes about her recent movie and TV roles; and the USA Network series Shooter, in which she co-stars with Ryan Phillippe, was renewed for a second season (Variety).
Jonah Berger '98 was interviewed on NPR's Hidden Brain about his newest book, Invisible Influence.
Lucky Penny, the graphic novel co-authored by Ananth Hirsh '01, is a finalist for the 2016 Cybils Awards.
cuSTEMized.org, the non-profit founded by Jean Fan '09, has released a new book: My Scientific Name.
Erik Agard '11 has written a book of crossword puzzles: Food for Thought Crosswords
Alex Bourzutschky '14 is a contestant in the 2017 Jeopardy! College Championship - watch him compete on Wednesday, February 15, 2017!

Opinions and Interviews:

Joshua Weitz '93 wrote an editorial in Georgia Tech's student newspaper opposed to the recent Executive Order on immigration, and he spoke at a rally on Georgia Tech's campus.
Gautam Mukunda '97 wrote in the Harvard Business Review that President Trump will test our theory of when leaders really matter.
Elizabeth Green '02, the co-founder of the non-profit education news organization Chalkbeat, wrote about how to combat fake news.
Samir Paul '06, was interviewed by WTOP as he protested in Annapolis along with other public school teachers.
Michelle McGhee '14 is part of a new podcast, Three Unicorns, about black women in tech.