Magnet Alumni News: Spring 2014

Bay Area alumni are organizing a Happy Hour on May 16th in San Francisco!

Several young alumni won prestigious scholarships and awards:

• • Rohan Puttagunta '10, a senior at Stanford, won a Terman Engineering Scholastic Award and invited Susan Ragan to be honored at the award ceremony in April.

  • Fang Cao '11, a junior at the University of Maryland, was named a 2014 Truman Scholar.

  • Rafael Setra '11, a junior at the University of Maryland, was named a 2014 Goldwater Scholar. Daniel Farias '11 was named an Honorable Mention.

Other notable alumni news:

• • Helen Fields '93 wrote an article for Smithsonian Magazine: As the Planet Warms, What Happens to the Reindeer?

  • Pat Yongpradit '96, director of education at Code.org, was interviewed in a story in the Washington Post: High School Students Are All About Computers But Get Little Instruction In Computer Science.

  • Wendy Chang '99 is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

  • Alison (Horner) Cardy '02 is a career coach who wrote an article for Forbes online: 3 Telltale Signs You're on the Wrong Career Path.

  • Abigail Fraeman '05 is finishing her Ph.D. in Planetary Science at Washington University in St. Louis and will be at Caltech/JPL for a postdoc this fall (video/JPL). She was interviewed in February for a Scientista Spotlight.

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