Magnet Alumni News: Summer 2023
Public Service Appointments:
Elizabeth Todd-Breland '00 was re-appointed to the Chicago Board of Education (Axios)
Samir Paul '06 was appointed to the Maryland State Board of Education (governor.maryland.gov)
University Appointments:
Lorrie Cranor '89 was appointed a University Professor at Carnegie Mellon
Joshua Weitz '93 has joined UMD’s Department of Biology as the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics
Academic Awards:
Samit Dasgupta '95 and Brian Lawrence '07 were among the number theorists recognized with Frontiers of Science awards at the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science
Jonah Berger '98 was recognized with a Sage Journals 10-Year Impact Award
Scientific Journal Publications:
Biology:
L.F.M. Passalacqua, et al., incl. Samie Jaffrey '89, Intricate 3D architecture of a DNA mimic of GFP (Nature)
Hormuzd Katki '92, et al., Increase in power by obtaining 10 or more controls per case when type-1 error is small in large-scale association studies (BMC Medical Research Methodology)
S.W. Park, et al., incl. Joshua Weitz '93, Inferring the differences in incubation-period and generation-interval distributions of the Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
H. Vu and Jason Ernst '98, Universal chromatin state annotation of the mouse genome (Genome Biology)
A.C. Hill, C. Guo, E. Litkowski, Ani Manichaikul '99, et al., Large scale proteomic studies create novel privacy considerations (Scientific Reports)
Y. Hao, et al., and Rahul Satija '02, Dictionary learning for integrative, multimodal and scalable single-cell analysis (Nature Biotechnology)
Jean Fan '09, Why it’s worth making computational methods easy to use (Nature)
I.M. Kaplow, A.J. Lawler, Daniel Schäffer '19, et al., Relating enhancer genetic variation across mammals to complex phenotypes using machine learning (Science)
Psychology and Neuroscience:
G. Plummer, R. Raut, Bingni Wen Brunton '02, and S. Hakimian, Temporal dynamics of triphasic waves and generalized periodic discharges (P10-1.012) (Neurology)
T.M. Davis and Wilma Bainbridge '05, Memory for artwork is predictable (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) (Wired)
R.L. Azevedo-Pereira, et al., incl. Jack Berry '08, Decoding the molecular crosstalk between grafted stem cells and the stroke-injured brain (Cell Reports)
Mathematics:
Rachel Kirsch '06 and J. Radcliffe, Many Cliques in Bounded-Degree Hypergraphs (SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics)
Jared Duker Lichtman '14, A proof of the Erdős primitive set conjecture (Forum of Mathematics, Pi)
Astronomy/Planetary Science:
J.M. Dickson, et al., incl. Caleb Fasset '98, Gullies on Mars could have formed by melting of water ice during periods of high obliquity (Science)
C.S. Salem, Marc Pulupa '99, et al., Precision electron measurements in the solar wind at 1 au from NASA’s Wind spacecraft (Astronomy & Astrophysics)
S. Wen, P.G. Jonker, Nick Stone '04, et al., Optical/UV emission in the Tidal Disruption Event ASASSN-14li: implications of disc modelling (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
Engineering:
M. Kim, et al., and Minjoo Larry Lee '94, Metamorphic front- and rear-junction 1.7 eV GaInP solar cells with high open-circuit voltage (Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells)
S. Kim, et al., and David Hu '97, Canine-inspired Unidirectional Flows for Improving Memory Effects in Machine Olfaction (Integrative and Comparative Biology)
S. Gupta, M.H. Zaki, and Adan Vela '99, HISS: A Pedestrian Trajectory Planning Framework Using Receding Horizon Optimization (IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems)
S. Feng, et al., incl. Erica Hartmann '05, Intensity of sample processing methods impacts wastewater SARS-CoV-2 whole genome amplicon sequencing outcomes (Science of The Total Environment)
R.K. Padhy, Aaditya Chandrasekhar '09, and K. Suresh, FluTO: Graded multi-scale topology optimization of large contact area fluid-flow devices using neural networks (Engineering with Computers)
Y. Zhai, A. De Boer, J. Yan, Benjamin Shih '09, et al., Desktop fabrication of monolithic soft robotic devices with embedded fluidic control circuits (Science Robotics)
Medicine:
S.A. Berg and Atish Choudhury '95, Mutual ATRaction: Assessing synergy of berzosertib with sacituzumab govitecan (Clinical Cancer Research)
A. Dixit, D.L. Heavner, L.C. Baker, and Eric Sun '96, Association Between "Balance Billing" Legislation and Anesthesia Payments in California: A Retrospective Analysis (Anesthesiology)
M. Michaux, J.M. Chan, Luke Bergmann '98, et al., Spatial cluster mapping and environmental modeling in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (World Journal of Gastroenterology)
M.E. Peek, Attia Goheer '00, and S. Saha, The RWJF Health Policy Research Scholars: Interdisciplinary leaders advancing health equity (Health Services Research)
P.M. Rosa-Nieves, K. Plampton, T. Evans, and Melodi Javid Whitley '03, Successful Treatment of a Keloid With Surgical Excision Followed by Pentoxifylline, Intralesional Corticosteroid, and Intralesional 5-Fluorouracil (Dermatologic Surgery)
Z.V. Aslami, C.R. Leland, Sophie Strike '03, et al., Symptomatic neuroma development following en bloc resection of skeletal and soft tissue tumors: A retrospective analysis of 331 cases (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery)
S.E. Turbett, C.H. Tomkins-Tinch, Melis Anahtar '04, et al., Distinguishing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Persistence and Reinfection: A Retrospective Cohort Study (Clinical Infectious Diseases)
Alexander Berger '04, et al., Effects of Same-Day Discharge on 30-Day Readmission Rates in Women Aged 65 Years and Older Undergoing Minimally Invasive Pelvic Organ Prolapse Surgery (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
S.A. Sabe, et al., incl. Cynthia Xu '08, Sitagliptin therapy improves myocardial perfusion and arteriolar collateralization in chronically ischemic myocardium: A pilot study (Physiological Reports)
Politics:
Maria Honeycutt '91 was quoted in a Politico article discussing flood insurance.
Aaron Klein '94 was quoted in a Politico article discussing credit card fees.
Jesse Lee '98 sent a memo on Bidenomics quoted in The Hill.
Kristin Mink '03 was quoted in a Washington Post article on Montgomery County's rent stabilization bill.
Anika Seth '21 wrote in the Yale Daily News: What comes next? Questions after the affirmative action decision.
In this Newsletter:
Maneesh Agrawala '90 spoke to Silver Quest about his experience in computer graphics from Blair to Stanford
Alumni from the Class of '21 and Class of '22 spoke to Silver Quest offering advice from college
Distinguished Alumni Award: Nominate an alum to be recognized at Blair this winter