Magnet Alumni News: Summer 2012

Many alumni made headlines in the past few months:

• • Louis Wasserman '08 was featured in a story upon his graduation from the University of Chicago.

  • Jenny Wang '08 was awarded the University Medal at the 2012 Commencement at the University of Maryland.

  • Stacey Roshan '00 was featured in the Washington Post for her "Flipped" Calculus Class at Bullis School.

  • Joseph Owen '10 was featured in a story on WTOP and WJLA about an advanced treadmill being developed at UMD.

    • The official site for the Treadsense project: http://www.treadsense.com/

    • The official site for the Jeka lab at UMD where the work is being done: http://www.sph.umd.edu/KNES/faculty/jjeka/index.html

  • Matias Duarte '92 was interviewed by Gizmodo at Google I/O about the next version of Android.

  • Joanne Chan '01 was elected President of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund.

  • Bola King-Rushing '90 completed his Ph.D. in English with a doctoral emphasis in Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, June 2012. Dissertation title: "A Theoretical Framework for Virtual-Worlds Research: Toward a Proxemics of Virtuality."