Magnet Alumni News: Winter 2019

• • Erik Agard '11 (crossword puzzle constructor) won three episodes of Jeopardy! in October, winning a total of $66,802 in prize money. (Bethesda Magazine)

  • Andrew Kung '08 (UCSF graduate student) won an episode of Jeopardy! in December, winning $21,000.(Boston Globe)

Prizes, Awards, and Fellowships:

• • Danyel Fisher '93 was part of a group of authors awarded the InfoVis "Test of Time" award at the 2018 IEEE VIS conference, for their 2008 paper, "Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization."

  • Wei-Hwa Huang '93 was the 2018 U.S. Puzzle Champion and a member of the US team that finished in second place at the World Puzzle Championship in November. He was also on the team that won the 2019 MIT Mystery Hunt.

  • Meredith TenHoor '94 is a Princeton-Mellon Fellow at the Princeton University School of Architecture.

  • Ani Manichaikul '99 was awarded the Magnet Foundation's 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award.

  • Jordyn Wolfand '07 successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation at Stanford in November (@JWolfand), and she is now a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Colorado School of Mines.

  • Jonathan Gootenberg '09 is one of the inaugural fellows of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.

  • Ozzie Fallick '10 won a silver medal in the Division II Men's Sabre event at the USA Fencing North American Cup in December.

  • Urja Mittal '10 won the Michael Egger Prize for the best student Note in the Yale Law Journal.

Journal Publications:

• • Samie Jaffrey '89 and M.F. Wilkinson, Nonsense-mediated RNA decay in the brain: emerging modulator of neural development and disease (Nature Reviews Neuroscience)

  • Wendy Madigosky '91, et al., A longitudinal team-based learning course introducing teamwork/collaboration, values/ethics, and safety/quality to health professional students (Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice)

  • A. Tong, S.K. Kang, C. Huang, K. Huang, A. Slevin, and Nicole Hindman '93, MRI screening for uterine leiomyosarcoma (Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

  • C. Ward and Iyad Obeid '93, Application of identity vectors for EEG classification (Journal of Neuroscience Methods)

  • H. Alrasheed, R. Jin, and Joshua Weitz '93, Caution in inferring viral strategies from abundance correlations in marine metagenomes (Nature Communications)

  • N. Ding, S.A. Miller, S.S. Savant, and Heather M. O'Hagan '94, JAK2 regulates mismatch repair protein‐mediated epigenetic alterations in response to oxidative damage (Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis)

  • D. Jung, L. Yu, S. Dev, D. Wasserman, and Minjoo Larry Lee '94, Design and growth of multi-functional InAsP metamorphic buffers for mid-infrared quantum well lasers on InP (Journal of Applied Physics)

  • Miranda Mockrin '95, et al., Forests, houses, or both? Relationships between land cover, housing characteristics, and resident socioeconomic status across ecoregions (Journal of Environmental Management)

  • R. Salari, T. Joseph, R. Lohia, J. Hénin, and Grace Brannigan '96, A Streamlined, General Approach for Computing Ligand Binding Free Energies and Its Application to GPCR-Bound Cholesterol (Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation)

  • Anna Browne Ribeiro '99, Ragtime, Clockwork: Community Work, Mobility, and Chronotope Production in Amazonian Communities (Signs and Society)

  • Robyn Sanderson '99, et al., Reconciling Observed and Simulated Stellar Halo Masses (The Astrophysical Journal)

  • N. Schine, M. Chalupnik, T. Can, A. Gromov, and Jonathan Simon '00, Electromagnetic and gravitational responses of photonic Landau levels (Nature)

  • Jennifer Caswell-Jin '02, et al., Change in Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer with Treatment Advances: Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review (JNCI Cancer Spectrum)

  • T. Stuart and Rahul Satija '02, Integrative single-cell analysis (Nature Reviews Genetics)

  • Jessica Shang '04, et al., Patient-specific multiscale modeling of the Assisted Bidirectional Glenn (The Annals of Thoracic Surgery)

  • A. Peterson, Noah Simon '04, and D. Witten, Scalpel: Extracting neurons from calcium imaging data (The Annals of Applied Statistics)

  • R.A. Blaustein, et al., and Erica Hartmann '05, Pangenomic Approach To Understanding Microbial Adaptations within a Model Built Environment, the International Space Station, Relative to Human Hosts and Soil (mSystems)

  • Jeremy Goodman '06 and H. Lederman, Sense, reference and substitution (Philosophical Studies)

  • B.A. Jarrett, A.L. Corbet, I.H. Gardner, J.D. Weinand, and Sarah Peitzmeier '06, Chest Binding and Care Seeking Among Transmasculine Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study (Transgender Health)

  • T.G. Thuruthel, Ben Shih '09, C. Laschi, and M.T. Tolley, Soft robot perception using embedded soft sensors and recurrent neural networks (Science Robotics)

Books:

• • Rebecca Segal '90 is a co-editor of Understanding Complex Biological Systems with Mathematics.

  • David Weinstock '90 co-wrote Challenges and implications of genomics for T-cell lymphomas in the 2018 American Society of Hematology Education Book.

  • David Heetderks '93 contributed to The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis with his work: A Tonal Axis to Grind: The Central Dyad in Sonic Youth’s Divergent Textures.

  • Jacob Lurie '96 is a co-author of Weil's Conjecture for Function Fields, Volume I.

  • Jennifer Helgeson '02 is a co-editor of Transformations of Social-Ecological Systems.

  • John Silberholz '06 co-wrote Computational Comparison of Metaheuristics in the Handbook of Metahueristics.

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