Magnet Alumni News: Spring 2022

Academic Awards and Scholarships:

• Grace Brannigan '96 won a Rutgers-Camden Chancellor's Award.

• Yevgeny Brudno '00 won a Goodnight Early Career Innovator Award at NC State.

• Abigail Fraeman '05 received a NASA Early Career Award.

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowships were awarded to Anna Barth '17 (Harvey Mudd/Cornell), Andrew Komo '18 (MIT), Caleb Robelle '17 (UMBC/MIT), and Noah Singer '18 (Harvard/CMU).

• Goldwater Scholarships were awarded to Jonah Nan '19 (U.Mich.), Patrick Kim '19 (UMD), and Daniel Schaffer '19 (@CMUCompBio).

Scientific Journal Publications:

• M. Skirpan, et al., and Lorrie Cranor ‘89, Is a privacy crisis experienced, a privacy crisis avoided? (Communications of the ACM)

• I.J. Viegas, et al., Samie Jaffrey ‘89, and L.M. Figuerido, N 6-methyladenosine in poly(A) tails stabilize VSG transcripts (Nature)

• A.R. Carlson, et al., incl. Miranda Mockrin ‘95, The wildland-urban interface in the United States based on 125 million building locations (Ecological Applications)

• Amir Caspi ‘96, et al., Small Satellite Mission Concepts for Space Weather Research and as Pathfinders for Operations (Space Weather)

• R. Lohia, M.E.B. Hansen, and Grace Brannigan ‘96, Contiguously hydrophobic sequences are functionally significant throughout the human exome (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

• C.I. Jahn and Timothy Buschman ‘97, In V1, attending is not learning to see (Neuron)

• N. Mohebbi, et al., and David Hu ‘97, The Scaling of Olfaction: Moths have Relatively More Olfactory Surface Area than Mammals (Integrative and Comparative Biology)

• Luke Bergmann ‘98, et al., Mapping Agricultural Lands: From Conventional to Regenerative (Land)

• A.J. Campbell, Elinor Lichtenberg ‘99, et al., High bee functional diversity buffers crop pollination services against Amazon deforestation (Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment)

• P. Agarwalla, et al., and Yevgeny Brudno ‘00, Bioinstructive implantable scaffolds for rapid in vivo manufacture and release of CAR-T cells (Nature Biotechnology)

• S.V. Sam and Andrew Snowden ‘00, SP-equivariant modules over polynomial rings in infinitely many variables (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.)

• Anuj Shah ‘01 and M. LaForest, Knowledge about others reduces one’s own sense of anonymity (Nature)

• B. Zhang, et al., and Rahul Satija ‘02, Characterizing cellular heterogeneity in chromatin state with scCUT&Tag-pro (Nature Biotechnology)

• Ning Bao ‘04, et al., Magic state distillation from entangled states (Physical Review A)

• Anthony Burnetti ‘07 and W.C. Ratliff, Experimental evolution is not just for model organisms (PLOS One)

• J. de Hond, et al., incl. William Cody Burton ‘08, Preparation of the Spin-Mott State: A Spinful Mott Insulator of Repulsively Bound Pairs (Physical Review Letters)

• B.F. Miller, et al., and Jean Fan '09, Reference-free cell type deconvolution of multi-cellular pixel-resolution spatially resolved transcriptomics data (Nature Communications)

• C.J. Argue '11, et al., Robust Secretary and Prophet Algorithms for Packing Integer Programs (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms)

• C. Chia, Bart Machielse '12, et al., Development of hard masks for reactive ion beam angled etching of diamond (Optics Express)

• J. Bayless, P. Kinlaw, and Jared Duker Lichtman ‘14, Higher Mertens constants for almost primes (Journal of Number Theory)

• Avikar Periwal ‘14, et al., Programmable interactions and emergent geometry in an array of atom clouds (Nature)

• Michael Winer ‘15 and B. Swingle, Spontaneous symmetry breaking, spectral statistics, and the ramp (Physical Review B)

• Caitlyn Singam '16, A Novel Alternative to Bundle Protocol for Handling Data Transmission Across Disruption-Tolerant Networks (Space Operations)

Medical Research Publications:

• W. Wu, et al., and David Weinstock '90, Overcoming IMiD resistance in T-cell lymphomas through potent degradation of ZFP91 and IKZF1 (Blood)

• M. Earnest, Wendy Madigosky ‘91, et al., Validity evidence for using an online peer-assessment tool (CATME) to assess individual contributions to interprofessional student teamwork in a longitudinal team-based learning course (J. Interprofessional Care)

• Jeremy Ackerman ‘92, Tactical Emergency Casualty Care and the Art of Practicing Nonmaleficence in Harm’s Way (AMA Journal of Ethics)

• H.A. Robbins, et al., and Hormuzd Katki ‘92, Management of Lung Cancer Screening Results Based on Individual Prediction of Current and Future Lung Cancer Risks (J. Thoracic Oncology)

• W.C. Dube, et al., Joshua Weitz ‘93, and S.K. Fridkin, Quantifying Risk for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Nursing Home Workers for the 2020-2021 Winter Surge of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Georgia, USA (J. American Medical Directors)

• L. Bowleg, et al., and Cheriko Boone ‘96, Ending the HIV epidemic for all, not just some: structural racism as a fundamental but overlooked social-structural determinant of the US HIV epidemic (Curr. Opin. HIV and AIDS)

• Byron Drumheller ‘02, et al., Severe bradycardia from severe hyperkalemia: Patient characteristics, outcomes and factors associated with hemodynamic support (Am. J. Emerg. Med.)

• J.M. Zhu, et al., Ximena Levander ‘02, and S.C. Lin, Trends In Outpatient Mental Health Services Use Before And During The COVID-19 Pandemic (Health Affairs)

• Y. Levin, et al., and Michael Sidorov ‘03, Evaluation of electroencephalography biomarkers for Angelman syndrome during overnight sleep (Autism Research)

• Sarah Peitzmeier ‘06, et al., Adapting an evidence-based sexual assault prevention intervention for women undergraduates for online delivery (Injury Prevention)

• Cynthia Xu ‘08, et al., Assessments of Microvascular Function in Organ Systems (Heart and Circulatory Physiology)

Books:

• All the Rage by Rosamond King '92 is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.

• Nicholas Goedert ‘97 has published Ground War: Commissions, and the Fight over Partisan Gerrymanders.

• Gautam Mukunda ‘97 will publish a new book in the fall: Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World.

• Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman '97 is now available in paperback.

• Alex Epstein '98 is publishing a new book: Fossil Future.

• Wilma Bainbridge ‘05 is the co-editor of a new book on Visual Memory.

Interviews:

• Lorrie Cranor '89 was interviewed about Android app privacy labels in the Washington Post.

• Craig Rice '90 shared the County Council's views in a WTOP story about the return of police officers to MCPS campuses.

• Aaron Klein '94 was quoted in a Washington Post story about economic uncertainty. He was named one of Washingtonian Magazine's 500 Most Influential People.

• Drew Linzer ‘94 joined a new podcast at Daily Kos to talk about political polling.

• Jonah Berger '98 was interviewed for the Knowledge at Wharton podcast about The Science of Blockbusters: What Makes a Good Story?

• Alexander Berengaut '99 was interviewed by the National Law Journal on A Lawyer's Role at the Intersection of Data, the Government and the First Amendment.

• Elizabeth Green '02 was interviewed about her role as a co-founder of Chalkbeat for an episode of the documentary series Visionaries on PBS.

• Marie Cohen, mother of Michael Cohen '10, was interviewed in the Washington Post about her campaign for awareness of Type 1 diabetes after Michael's death in 2017.

• Michael Winer '15 was interviewed about Growing into a Physicist at UMD.

Campus Journalism:

• Prayag Gordy '20, Rice cancels remaining publics as Covid cases surge (Rice Thresher)

• Khushboo Rathore '20, ‘Turning Red’ delights, but some characters feel two-dimensional (The Diamondback)

• Sophia Weng '20, The Diverse Femininity of Disney Princesses (Harvard Political Review)

• Aviva Bechky '21, Teaching religious diversity: Evanston students, educators reflect on how schools discuss religion in light of new law (Daily Northwestern)

• Anika Seth '21, South Asian students speak on identity, belonging at Yale (Yale Daily News)

• Valentina Simon '21, Yale researchers map gene regulation in tissue using novel sequencing technology (Yale Daily News)