Magnet Alumni News: Winter 2020

• • Awards and Grants:Samie Jaffrey '89 was awarded an NIH MIRA Grant. (cornell.edu)

  • Joshua Weitz '93 was named to the Blaise Pascal International Chair of Excellence.

  • Rahul Satija '02 was awarded an Open Source Software grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

  • Jean Fan '09 was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 for Healthcare. She will be starting as an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University this summer. (@JEFworks)

  • Maggie Wang '18 won an Academic All-Conference Award as a member of the MIT women's volleyball team.

Research Publications:

• • Charissa Chang '91, The Liver and Insulin Resistance: The Important Convergence of Endocrinology and Hepatology (Contemporary Endocrinology)

  • David Heetderks '93, Play with Closing Markers: Cadential Multivalence in 1960s Prechoruses and Related Schemas (Music Theory Spectrum)

  • Meredith TenHoor '94, State-funded militant infrastructure? CERFI’s équipements collectifs in the intellectual history of architecture (The Journal of Architecture)

  • A.R. Maiuri, et al., and Heather O'Hagan '94, DNA methyltransferase inhibition reduces inflammation-induced colon tumorigenesis (Epigenetics)

  • A.H. Chang and Patricio Vela '94, Shape-centric modeling for control of traveling wave rectilinear locomotion on snake-like robots (Robotics and Autonomous Systems)

  • A.A. Hamid and Atish Choudhury '95, Biological and therapeutic advances in the pursuit of effective immunotherapy for prostate cancer (Current Opinion in Urology)

  • Miranda Mockrin '95, H.K. Fishler, and S.I. Stewart, After the fire: Perceptions of land use planning to reduce wildfire risk in eight communities across the United States (International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction)

  • Jacob Lurie '96, Full Level Structures on Elliptic Curves (pdf)

  • Jonah Berger '98, et al., Uniting the Tribes: Using Text for Marketing Insight (Journal of Marketing)

  • Robyn Sanderson '99, et al., Synthetic Gaia Surveys from the FIRE Cosmological Simulations of Milky Way-mass Galaxies (The Astrophysical Journal)

  • Alex Winder '99, Nakba Diaries: Unsettling the Scale and Temporality of Historical Writing (AlMuntaqa)

  • M.R. Adams, et al., and Yegveny Brudno '00, Extracellular-Matrix-Anchored Click Motifs for Specific Tissue Targeting (Molecular Pharmaceutics)

  • J.E. Rood, et al., and Rahul Satija '02, Toward a Common Coordinate Framework for the Human Body (Cell)

  • Bingni Wen Brunton '02 and M. Beyeler, Data-driven models in human neuroscience and neuroengineering (Current Opinion in Neurobiology)

  • Melodi Javid Whitley ‘03, et al., Kaposi sarcoma in a patient with postpolio syndrome (Cutis)

  • Ning Bao '04, G. Penington, J. Sorce, and A.C. Wall, Beyond toy models: distilling tensor networks in full AdS/CFT (Journal of High Energy Physics)

  • Wilma Bainbridge '05 and C.I. Baker, Boundaries Extend and Contract in Scene Memory Depending on Image Properties (Current Biology)

  • Jeremy Goodman '06, Agglomerative Algebras (Journal of Philosophical Logic)

  • Jordyn Wolfand '07, et al., Will wastewater recycling impact ecology in the Los Angeles River? (AGU Fall Meeting 2019)

  • Noori Chai '08, et al., Genome-wide synthetic lethal CRISPR screen identifies FIS1 as a genetic interactor of ALS-linked C9ORF72 (Brain Research)

  • Emily Jones '10, et al., Early Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripple Deficits Predict Later Learning and Memory Impairments in an Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Model (Cell Reports)

  • Frederic Koehler '12, Fast Convergence of Belief Propagation to Global Optima: Beyond Correlation Decay (Neural Information Processing Systems Conference 2019)

  • Samuel Zbarsky '13, Lower Bounds and Fixed Points for the Centered Hardy–Littlewood Maximal Operator (The Journal of Geometric Analysis)

  • Jared Duker Lichtman '14, Almost primes and the Banks–Martin conjecture (Journal of Number Theory)

Interviews and Testimony:

• • Lorrie Cranor '89 was interviewed for a CBS news segment in Pittsburgh: Alexa, Are You Spying On Me? How To Prevent Your Smart Devices From Listening To You

  • Alenda Chang '94 talked about her involvement in a new open access journal at UC Santa Barbara: Where Media Meets Environment

  • Aaron Klein '94 testified before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee Task Force on Financial Technology at a hearing asking, "Is Cash Still King? Reviewing the Rise of Mobile Payments."

  • Rahman Culver '96 was interviewed for Info Flow on December 9th

  • Jeremy Fisher '97 was interviewed by Forbes Energy Innovation about his research on the economics of coal power plants: Utilities Running Uneconomic Coal Plants Cost Consumers $3.5 Billion From 2015-2017

  • The microbiology research of Erica Hartmann '05 was featured in Popular Science: Your home’s microbiome, revealed

  • Grace Cai '19 was interviewed as part of Amy Poehler's Smart Girls.

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