Magnet Alumni News: Winter 2010

Many Magnet alumni made headlines in the past few months:

• • Max Gibiansky '04 is the first named author of an article published on October 8 in Science. His team discovered bacteria with leg-like projections used to move around surfaces.

  • Craig Rice '90 was elected to the Montgomery County Council in the November elections.

  • Judy (Grunberger) Arnold '93 appeared on Jeopardy! on December 14th. She told Alex Trebek that she was the inspiration for this Dilbert cartoon.

  • Tyrone Giordano '94 was a member of the cast of The Next Three Days starring Russell Crowe.

  • Earlier this year, Wei-Hwa Huang '93 co-authored Sudoku Masterpieces: Elegant Challenges for Sudoku Lovers

20-year reunion update for the Class of 1990:

• • Maneesh Agrawala '90 is an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

  • Pourya Dehnadi '90 is the co-founder and CEO of Apex Logic, Inc.

  • Josh Fischman '90 is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.

  • Bola King-Rushing '90 is an Instructional Technologist at Oxnard College and a graduate student at UC-Santa Barbara. Earlier this year, he published Elucidating Injustice: The Crisis of Identity in Minority-Produced Science Fiction.

  • Sarah Manchester '90 is a math teacher in the Magnet Program at Takoma Park Middle School and coach of the school team that has now won the Maryland state Mathcounts competition for 25 straight years.

  • Ari Mizel '90 is a physicist at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences in College Park, MD.

  • Robert Pless '90 is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis.

  • Craig Rice '90 is the District 2 Councilmember on the Montgomery County Council.

  • Shira Robinson '90 is an Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University.

  • Nitin Seam '90 is a Doctor of Internal Medicine at the Washington, DC VA Medical Center.

  • Rebecca Segal '90 is an Assistant Professor Mathematics at Virginia Commonwealth University.

  • Stacy Swartwood '90 is a biologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

  • David Weinstock '90 is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.