Magnet Alumni News: Winter 2017

Distinguished Alumnus: Matías Duarte '92 was recognized with the Magnet Foundation's Distinguished Alumni Award on January 12, 2017.

Transitions:

• • Lorrie Cranor '89 finished her term as the Chief Technologist at the FTC, and she was profiled in the Washington University Engineering School Alumni Magazine.

  • Robert Pless '90 is the new chair of the Computer Science Department at George Washington University.

  • Carl Miller '97 is the newest Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science at the University of Maryland.

  • Nora Achrati '99 is a member of the cast of Intelligence, a new play opening late February at Arena Stage in Washington, DC.

  • Brittany Cheng '13 has started a full-time position at sports media site SBNation (@ChengBrittany).

Research:

• • Joshua Weitz '93 completed a study showing how tragedies of the commons might be averted; he was interviewed on Georgia Public Radio.

  • Aaron Klein '94, completed research studying the benefits and costs of key provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act on financial stability and economic growth

  • Amir Caspi '96 completed research in Antarctica last year to qualify X-ray detectors for solar flares, and he recently won a NASA grant to image the August 2017 solar eclipse using airborne telescopes.

  • David Hu' 97 published research on the mechanics of frog tongues; he was interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine and the New York Times.

  • Emily Yanisko '98 published research about tracked students in the Journal of Urban Mathematics Education.

Books, Articles, Poems, Puzzles, and Television:

• • Rosamond King '92 is an author and poet, and an English Professor at Brooklyn College.

    • Two poems from her book Rock|Salt|Stone were recently published in Aster(ix).

    • Her poem Sea Garden was the National Academy of Poets' Poem-a-Day for January 24, 2017.

  • Helen Fields '93 wrote a feature article about the curation of the collection for American Museum of African-American History in the GW Alumni Magazine.

  • Cynthia Addai-Robinson '98 was interviewed by Rotten Tomatoes about her recent movie and TV roles; and the USA Network series Shooter, in which she co-stars with Ryan Phillippe, was renewed for a second season (Variety).

  • Jonah Berger '98 was interviewed on NPR's Hidden Brain about his newest book, Invisible Influence.

  • Lucky Penny, the graphic novel co-authored by Ananth Hirsh '01, is a finalist for the 2016 Cybils Awards.

  • cuSTEMized.org, the non-profit founded by Jean Fan '09, has released a new book: My Scientific Name.

  • Erik Agard '11 has written a book of crossword puzzles: Food for Thought Crosswords

  • Alex Bourzutschky '14 is a contestant in the 2017 Jeopardy! College Championship - watch him compete on Wednesday, February 15, 2017!

Opinions and Interviews:

• • Joshua Weitz '93 wrote an editorial in Georgia Tech's student newspaper opposed to the recent Executive Order on immigration, and he spoke at a rally on Georgia Tech's campus.

  • Gautam Mukunda '97 wrote in the Harvard Business Review that President Trump will test our theory of when leaders really matter.

  • Elizabeth Green '02, the co-founder of the non-profit education news organization Chalkbeat, wrote about how to combat fake news.

  • Samir Paul '06, was interviewed by WTOP as he protested in Annapolis along with other public school teachers.

  • Michelle McGhee '14 is part of a new podcast, Three Unicorns, about black women in tech.