Magnet Alumni News - Summer 2021

Academic Awards:

• • Dan Bergstralh '93 won a NSF CAREER Award to support his biology research at the University of Rochester

  • Jean Fan '09 won a NSF CAREER Award to support her biology research at Johns Hopkins University

  • Yaelle Goldschlag '16 and Sydney Sharp '17 were named 2021 senior marshals for University of Maryland commencement.

  • Alex Coy '17 was named a Merrill Scholar at Cornell University, and he recognized Mr. Stein as an influential teacher.

  • Linden Yuan '17 won a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship at the University of Maryland.

Academic Appointments and Degrees:

• • Michael Moon '91 is an Associate Adjunct at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies

  • Sarah Jane Alger '94 is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Wisconsin

  • Jessica Salvatore '98 is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Sweet Briar College

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

  • Hans Arora '01 is joining the University of North Carolina as an Assistant Professor of Urology (@EbYerkes)

• Elizabeth Partan '10 finished her Ph.D. in Human Genetics at Johns Hopkins University (@ElizabethPartan)

  • Kevin Zhang '15 finished his BPhil at Oxford University, as a Barry Scholar

Academic Publications:

• • Lorrie Cranor '89, Lessons from the Loo (Communications of the ACM)

  • J.D. Moon, et al., and Samie Jaffrey '89, Naturally occurring three-way junctions can be repurposed as genetically encoded RNA-based sensors (Cell Chemical Biology)

  • H.H. Edwards, Jeffrey Hostetler '92, B.M. Stith, and J. Martin, Monitoring abundance of aggregated animals (Florida manatees) using an unmanned aerial system (UAS) (Nature Scientific Reports)

  • G. Li, et al., and Joshua Weitz '93, Disease-dependent interaction policies to support health and economic outcomes during the COVID-19 epidemic (iScience)

  • Atish Choudhury '95, et al., A phase 2 study of berzosertib (M6620) in combination with carboplatin compared with docetaxel in combination with carboplatin in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (Journal of Clinical Oncology)

  • L. Sharp and Grace Brannigan '96, Spontaneous lipid binding to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in a native membrane (Journal of Chemical Physics)

  • A.K. Schulz, et al., and David Hu '97, Suction feeding by elephants (Royal Society Interface)

  • O. Toubia, Jonah Berger '98, and J. Eliashberg, How quantifying the shape of stories predicts their success (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

  • Christina Dobridge '98, Tax Loss Carrybacks as Firm Fiscal Stimulus: A Tale of Two Recessions (The Accounting Review)

  • S.B. Kwon and Jason Ernst '98, Learning a genome-wide score of human–mouse conservation at the functional genomics level (Nature Communications)

  • Jessica Salvatore '98 and T.A. Morton, Evaluations of science are robustly biased by identity concerns (Group Processes & Intergroup Relations)

  • K. Baylis, Elinor Lichtenberg '99, and Erik Lichtenberg, Economics of Pollination (Annual Review of Resource Economics)

  • Marc Pulupa '99, et al., Non-Detection of Lightning During the Second Parker Solar Probe Venus Gravity Assist (Geophysical Research Letters)

  • R.H. Eggermont and Andrew Snowden '00, Topological noetherianity for algebraic representations of infinite rank classical groups (Transformation Groups)

  • Jennifer Caswell-Jin '02, et al., Treatment and Monitoring Variability in US Metastatic Breast Cancer Care (JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics)

  • D. Thomas and Jennifer Helgeson '02, The effect of natural/human-made hazards on business establishments and their supply chains (International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction)

  • Ximena Levander '02, et al., Exploring how hospitalization can alter hepatitis c virus treatment prioritization and trajectories in people who use drugs: A qualitative analysis (Substance Abuse)

  • Y. Hao, S. Hao, et al., and Rahul Satija '02, Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data (Cell)

  • P. Karashchuk, J.C. Tuthill, and Bingni Wen Brunton '02, The DANNCE of the rats: a new toolkit for 3D tracking of animal behavior (Nature Methods)

  • Melodi Javid Whitley '03, et al., ENTPD1 (CD39) Expression Inhibits UVR-Induced DNA Damage Repair through Purinergic Signaling and Is Associated with Metastasis in Human Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (Journal of Investigative Dermatology)

  • Ning Bao '04, et al., Microstate distinguishability, quantum complexity, and the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (Classical and Quantum Gravity)

  • J.B. Carr, J.H. Thomas, J. Liu, and Jessica Shang '04, Peristaltic pumping in thin non-axisymmetric annular tubes (Journal of Fluid Mechanics)

  • Wilma Bainbridge '05, W.Y. Kwok, and C.I. Baker, Disrupted object-scene semantics boost scene recall but diminish object recall in drawings from memory (Memory & Cognition)

  • R.A. Blaustein, P.C. Seed, and Erica Hartmann '05, Biotransformation of Doxorubicin Promotes Resilience in Simplified Intestinal Microbial Communities (Journal of Clinical Microbiology)

  • B.A. Jarrett, Sarah Peitzmeier '06, et al., Gender-affirming care, mental health, and economic stability in the time of COVID-19: A multi-national, cross-sectional study of transgender and nonbinary people (PLOS One)

  • C.L. Panos, Jordyn Wolfand '07, and T.S. Hogue, Assessing resilience of a dual drainage urban system to redevelopment and climate change (Journal of Hydrology)

  • B.F. Miller, et al., and Jean Fan '09, Characterizing spatial gene expression heterogeneity in spatially resolved single-cell transcriptomics data with nonuniform cellular densities (Genome Research)

  • O.O. Abudayyeh and Jonathan Gootenberg '09, CRISPR diagnostics (Science)

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

  • A. Mwakingwe-Omari, S.A. Healy, J. Lane, et al. incl. Aarti Kolluri '11, Two chemoattenuated PfSPZ malaria vaccines induce sterile hepatic immunity (Nature)

  • Lori Kaufman '12 and B.D. McCloskey, Surface Lithium Carbonate Influences Electrolyte Degradation via Reactive Oxygen Attack in Lithium-Excess Cathode Materials (Chemistry of Materials)

  • M.M. Falinski, Eva Albalghiti '13, A. Backhaus, and J.B. Zimmerman, Performance and Sustainability Tradeoffs of Oxidized Carbon Nanotubes as a Cathodic Material in Lithium-Oxygen Batteries (ChemSusChem)

  • Richard Chen '14, et al., Synthetic data in machine learning for medicine and healthcare (Nature Biomedical Engineering)

Interviews:

• • Maneesh Agrawala '90 was interviewed in Analytics India magazine: Stanford University Professor Maneesh Agrawala On Video Editing Tools, Deep Fakes & More

  • Sarah Manchester '90 was interviewed by Silver Quest: Blair’s Diversity and Inclusion Instructional Coordinator

  • Samit Dasgupta '95 was interviewed in Quanta magazine: Mathematicians Find Long-Sought Building Blocks for Special Polynomials

  • Rahman Culver '96 was interviewed by Silver Quest: Not Your Stereotypical Mathematician

  • Vishal Kapur '97 was interviewed in Techcrunch about his new startup: Leap, a ‘social learning’ platform aimed at over 55s, raises a $3.1M seed round

  • Jiehae Park '98 was interviewed about her new play, For Steve Wozniak, on his 67th Birthday (Vimeo)

  • Julie Zhu '08 was interview in the Washington Post about her June carillon performance: Women composers take the spotlight — and the National Cathedral bell tower

Opinions and Activism:

• • Joshua Weitz '93 wrote in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Mandate vaccines for Georgia students and staff on public campuses

  • Aaron Klein '94 wrote in Politico: Overdraft Fees Are Big Money for Small Banks

  • Alex Epstein '98 testified in support of the oil and gas industry at a Congressional hearing before a subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee

  • Kristin Mink '03 talked about receiving death threats after announcing her candidacy for Montgomery County Council

  • Sophia Weng '20 wrote in the Harvard Political Review: Youth Suffrage for a More Civil Society