Magnet Alumni News: Spring 2020

• • Dawn Maldonado '08 is an internal medicine resident treating COVID patients at Elmhurst hospital in New York (@friendlychickens)

  • Caleb Fan '08 has also volunteered to treat COVID patients at Elmhurst, and he helped to raise $30,000 to support ICU workers (GoFundMe)

  • Stanley Liu '00 is a cardiologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He recently published an article with the American College of Cardiology: COVID-19: Disruption and the Innovation it Demands From Early Career Cardiologists.

  • Joshua Weitz '93, a Georgia Tech professor, wrote in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, explaining the simple probabilities that support the canceling of large events like March Madness, and warning of the risks of opening up the economy before reaching certain benchmarks.

  • Jonathan Gootenberg '09 is part of a team at the Broad Institute releasing open-access protocols for coronavirus detection using CRISPR-Cas13.

  • Ximena Levander '02, a clinical research fellow at Oregon Health and Science University, wrote in STAT: Covid-19 will worsen the opioid overdose crisis if we don’t prepare now

Blazer pride:

• • Lorrie Cranor '89 presented awards to the winners of Carnegie Mellon's picoCTF, including several Blair Magnet students (@lorrietweet)

  • Ricky Morri '19 was named to the Blazer Football All-Decade Team (@Blazer_Football)

  • PolarisList recognized Blair as the top feeder school in Maryland for Harvard, Princeton and MIT (mymcmedia)

Research Publications:

• • Joshua Fischman '90, Politics and Authority in the U.S. Supreme Court (Cornell Law Review) (pdf)

  • O. Fried, et al., and Maneesh Agrawala '90, Editing self-image (Communications of the ACM)

  • B. Mundy-Bosse and David Weinstock '90, Breaking Down the Barriers to Define and Treat NK/T Cell Lymphoma (Cancer Cell)

  • Nicole Hindman '93 and W. VanBuren, Imaging Spectrum of Endometriosis (Radiologic Clinics)

  • R.A. Rodriguez-Gonzalez, et al., and Joshua Weitz '93, Quantitative Models of Phage-Antibiotic Combination Therapy (mSystems)

  • V. Azimi et al., and Patricio Vela '94, Enhancing produce safety: State estimation-based robust adaptive control of a produce wash system (Journal of Process Control)

  • E. Francini, et al., and Atish Choudhury '95, Circulating-free DNA (cfDNA) as biomarker of taxane resistance in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) (Journal of Clinical Oncology)

  • L.K. Dunn and Eric Sun '96, Mind Over Matter: Reducing Perioperative Opioid Use Through Patient Education (Anesthesia & Analgesia)

  • H. Ko and David Hu '97, The physics of tossing fried rice (Journal of the Royal Society Interface); featured in Popular Mechanics

  • Caleb Fassett '98, et al., Spatial Variation in Erosion Rates in Mars Equatorial Regions Inferred from Ejecta Retention of 1-3 Km Diameter Craters (NASA Technical Report)

  • D.M. Malaspina, et al., and Marc Pulupa '99, In Situ Observations of Interplanetary Dust Variability in the Inner Heliosphere (The Astrophysical Journal)

  • Elinor Lichtenberg '99, et al., Competition for nectar resources does not affect bee foraging tactic constancy (Ecological Entomology)

  • I. Carusotto, et al., and Jonathan Simon '00, Photonic materials in circuit quantum electrodynamics (Nature Physics)

  • A. Putnam, S.V. Sam, and Andrew Snowden '00, Stability in the homology of unipotent groups (Algebra & Number Theory)

  • Ning Bao '04, et al., Bulk reconstruction beyond the entanglement wedge (Physical Review D)

  • Noel Bartlow '04, A Long‐Term View of Episodic Tremor and Slip in Cascadia (Geophysical Research Letters)

  • Rachel Kirsch '06 and A.J. Radcliffe, Maximizing the density of Kt’s in graphs of bounded degree and clique number (Discrete Mathematics)

  • A.B. Boehm, et al., and Jordyn Wolfand '07, Biochar-augmented biofilters to improve pollutant removal from stormwater – can they improve receiving water quality? (Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology)

• Benjamin Shih '09, et al., Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots (Science Robotics)

  • K.Y. Yang, Jinhie Skarda '13, et al., Inverse-designed non-reciprocal pulse router for chip-based LiDAR (Nature Photonics)

In the news:

• • Helen Fields '93 is one of the organizers of The Open Notebook #PeepYourScience competition, featured in Smithsonian Magazine.

  • Aaron Klein '94 writes in Barron's: A Big Problem for the Coronavirus Economy: The Internet Doesn’t Take Cash.

  • Gautam Mukunda '97 was quoted in Thomas Friedman's column in The New York Times: What America Needs Next: A Biden National Unity Cabinet.

  • Jonah Berger '98 wrote in the Wall Street Journal: How to Change Anyone’s Mind, previewing his new book, The Catalyst.

  • Elizabeth Green '02 was profiled in The New York Times for her work with non-profit journalism: Bail Out Journalists. Let Newspaper Chains Die.

  • Erica Hartmann '05 was interviewed in Popular Science about her research on anti-microbial cleaners: Fight viruses in your home without making bacteria stronger.

  • Erik Agard '11 constructed the New York Times crossword for March 10 and March 27. He also helped to introduce The New Yorker Crossword: Partner Mode.

Opinions, blogs, and interviews:

• • Kevin LeClaire '91 wrote about the impact of COVID-19 on the Ultimate community.

  • Rosamond King '92 was interviewed about her poetry and performance art at InfiniteBody.

  • Drew Linzer '94 was interviewed about his opinion polling on the Resistance Dashboard podcast.

  • Darwin Romero '96 is running for the Montgomery County Board of Education.

  • Alex Epstein '98 was interviewed on The Candace Owens Show on PragerU.

  • Aiko Katoh '00 was profiled as the managing director of Houzz Asia.

  • Stacey Roshan '00 shared Tech Tips for Teachers New to Remote Learning.

  • Jennifer Helgeson '02 was interviewed on Federal News Radio: How can states get the most bang for their disaster recovery buck?

  • Kristin Mink '03 was interviewed as part of a protest on Pennsylvania Avenue. (WAMU)

  • Wilma Bainbridge '05 talked about her research on the psychological phenomenon of boundary extension.

  • Sophia Deng '10 contributed to the Google Developers Blog, describing the use of Google Apps Script automations at Gigster.

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