Magnet Alumni News: Spring 2021

Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards:

• • Craig Rice '90 was recognized as a Living Legend for Service to Humanity (@teensforseniors)

  • Emily Tsui '04 received a $685,000 NSF CAREER Award to fund her research at the University of Notre Dame

  • Erica Hartmann '05 received a $500,000 NSF CAREER Award to fund her research at Northwestern University

  • Miranda Bernard '11 won a David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship to pursue postdoctoral research at Duke University

  • Several alumni won NSF Graduate Research Fellowships:

    • Jared Marx-Kuo ‘15 and Josephine Yu '16 (Stanford)

    • Jesse Griff-McMahon ‘16 (Princeton)

    • Sambuddha Chattopadhyay '17 (Harvard)

    • John Lathrop '17 and Jesse Matthews '17 (University of Maryland)

  • Kevin Jiang '18 (UCLA) and Naveen Durvasula '19 (UC Berkeley) won Goldwater Scholarships

New Appointments:

• • Lorrie Cranor '89 is co-leading the new Collaboratory Against Hate - Research and Action Center at Carnegie Mellon University (Diverse)

  • Eric Hysen '07 is the new Chief Information Officer for the Department of Homeland Security

  • Brittany Cheng '13 is a new senior digital analyst at NPR

  • Daniel Levy '20 was elected to the UMD Student Senate (@daniel_levyy13)

Academic Research:

• • Lorrie Cranor '89, Informing California privacy regulations with evidence from research (Communications of the ACM)

  • A.M.S. Correa et al. and Joshua Weitz '93, Revisiting the rules of life for viruses of microorganisms (Nature Reviews Microbiology)

  • Heather O'Hagan '94 et al., How Epigenetic Therapy Beats Adverse Genetics in Monosomy Karyotype AML (Cancer Research)

  • C. Mantia and Atish Choudhury '95, Transdermal oestrogen for advanced prostate cancer (Lancet)

  • Noah Ryder '95 et al., Hierarchical Temporal Memory Continuous Learning Algorithms for Fire State Determination (Fire Technology)

  • C.S. Rousseaux, W.W. Gregg, and Lesley Ott '96, Assessing the Skills of a Seasonal Forecast of Chlorophyll in the Global Pelagic Oceans (Remote Sensing)

  • T.L. Spencer et al. and David Hu '97, Sniffing speeds up chemical detection by controlling air-flows near sensors (Nature Communications)

  • G. Packer and Jonah Berger '98, Thinking of You: How Second-Person Pronouns Shape Cultural Success (Psychological Science) (Interview at wharton.upenn.edu)

  • J.C. Castillo et al., incl. Jean Lee '99, Market design to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine supply (Science)

  • Sarah Oh '00, Is There Evidence of Antitrust Harm in the House Judiciary Committee’s Hot Docs? (Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal)

  • D. Erman, S.V. Sam, and Andrew Snowden '00, Big Polynomial Rings with Imperfect Coefficient Fields (Michigan Mathematical Journal)

  • Jennifer Caswell-Jin '02 and C.Curtis, Androgen receptor agonists as breast cancer therapeutics (Nature Medicine)

• Ximena Levander '02 et al., Low-Threshold Buprenorphine via Community Partnerships and Telemedicine—Case Reports of Expanding Access to Addiction Treatment During COVID-19 (Journal of Addiction Medicine)

  • E. Papalexi et al. and Rahul Satija '02, Characterizing the molecular regulation of inhibitory immune checkpoints with multimodal single-cell screens (Nature Genetics)

  • K.R. Pugliares‐Bonner et al. and Kristina Cammen '03, Strandings provide insight into social group structure of Atlantic white‐sided dolphins (Marine Mammal Science)

  • Ning Bao '04 and Y.Kikuchi, Hayden-Preskill decoding from noisy Hawking radiation (Journal of High Energy Physics)

  • J. Feng, S. Emerson, and Noah Simon '04, Approval policies for modifications to machine learning‐based software as a medical device: A study of bio‐creep (Biometrics)

  • Wilma Bainbridge '05 et al., Quantifying aphantasia through drawing: Those without visual imagery show deficits in object but not spatial memory (Cortex)

  • A.G. McFarland et al. and Erica Hartmann '05, Triclosan Tolerance Is Driven by a Conserved Mechanism in Diverse Pseudomonas Species (Applied and Environmental Microbiology)

  • V. Bhattacharya and Greg Howard '06, Rational Inattention in the Infield (American Economic Journal: Microeconomics)

  • Sarah Peitzmeier '06, John Silberholtz '06, et al., Time to First Onset of Chest Binding–Related Symptoms in Transgender Youth (Pediatrics)

  • O.K. Helinski, C.J. Poor, and Jordyn Wolfand '07, Ridding our rivers of plastic: A framework for plastic pollution capture device selection (Marine Pollution Bulletin)

  • Purnima Balakrishnan '09 et al., Magnetic anisotropy and spin scattering in (La2/3Sr1/3)MnO3/CaRuO3 bilayers (AIP Advances)

  • B.O. Aicher et al., incl. Allison Arai '10, Moderate Aerobic Exercise Prevents Matrix Degradation and Death in a Mouse Model of Aortic Dissection and Aneurysm (Heart and Circulatory Physiology)

  • Anastasiya Belyaeva ‘11 et al., Causal network models of SARS-CoV-2 expression and aging to identify candidates for drug repurposing (Nature Communications)

  • J.K. Papp et al., incl. Lori Kaufman '12, A comparison of high voltage outgassing of LiCoO2, LiNiO2, and Li2MnO3 layered Li-ion cathode materials (Electrochimica Acta)

  • Neil Davey '14, Increasing global access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments through patent pools (Harvard Journal of Law & Technology)

  • G.Bodwin, M.Dinitz, and Caleb Robelle '17, Optimal Vertex Fault-Tolerant Spanners in Polynomial Time (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms)

Arts & Letters:

• • The Journal of British Studies published a review of Shakespeare and the Folktale: An Anthology of Stories by Charlotte Artese '91

  • Rosamond King '92 published a collection of poems: All the Rage

  • Ariel Segal '95 presented at Archival Kismet 2021 on Sublime Romanticism, Religion, and Saurians: The Two Versions of John Martin's "The Country of the Iguanodon" (@arielsegal)

  • Jess Zimmerman '97 published a collection of essays: Women and Other Monsters

  • Jiehae Park '98 was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play, The Aves

  • Kyle Orland '00 has written an ebook, Save Point, part of a bundle of books about video games

  • Studies in Microscopy, a short story by Samantha Xiao Cody '13, was selected for the Sonder Press 2021 Best Small Fictions Anthology

In the News:

• • Craig Rice '90 was interviewed in the Washington Post: He was a champion of police in schools. A year after George Floyd, he’s changed his mind.

  • Aaron Klein '94 was quoted in MarketWatch: "Amazon can get anything in the world physically to your door in under 48 hours. It takes Uncle Sam six days"

  • Jeremy Fain '95 wrote in Forbes: How Our Startup Doubled Its Workforce, Went Virtual And Became Even Closer During The Pandemic (read an interview with Aaron Andalman '95, co-founder of the AI startup Cognitiv)

  • Amanda Thornton '01 joined her hospital colleagues to create a viral video about COVID-19 vaccination: "Not Throwing Away My Shot" (CBS13 Sacramento)

  • Elizabeth Green '02 was interviewed in Dame magazine: How Chalkbeat's Founder Plans to Fix Media

  • Will Bucher '08 was interviewed by the American Bar Association's Landslide Magazine: From IP Associate to Video Game Specialist