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Katz School Newsletter: March 2021

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Study Quantifies Benefit of Water Filtration System in Rural Ghana鈥擝iotechnology professor Dr. Jochen Raimann鈥檚 study in Nature Research鈥檚 Scientific Reports found that purified water from a hemodialyzer membrane filtration system reduced life-threatening diarrhea in several Ghana villages over a five-month period. Read more禄


Data Analytics Students Design System Indexing Hate Speech鈥擫ed by Data Science professor Brandon Chiazza, a team of data analytics graduate students developed proof-of-concept speech classification algorithms to detect and categorize hate speech on the web. Read more禄
Financial Actors Seek Edge by Withholding Information鈥擰uantitative Economics professor Dr. Tadashi Hashimoto鈥檚 analysis in the Journal of Financial Economics shows why financial actors withhold information for strategic business reasons. Read more禄
Before They Got the Virus, Their Blood-Oxygen Levels Dropped鈥擬endel Lerner, a Quantitative Economics alum and data scientist, co-authored a study demonstrating that residents of a nursing home experienced declines in blood-oxygen saturation level several days before developing symptoms of COVID-19. Read more禄
Mathematical Model Analyzes Jupiter鈥檚 Asteroids鈥擬athematics professor Dr. Marian Gidea and Ph.D. student Wai-Ting Lam developed a mathematical model for analyzing the motion and gravity of a family of Trojan asteroids orbiting Jupiter, published in the Journal of Nonlinear Science. Read more禄

Grants

  • Sergey Buldyrev, professor of physics: 鈥淐ascading Failures Due to WMD attack on Realistic Heterogeneous Infrastructure Networks,鈥 $177,984, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, U.S. Department of Defense
  • Wonjun Lee, assistant professor of artificial intelligence, Dr. Sanjiv Kumar and Dr. Imtiaz Rangwala: 鈥淚nteractive Deep Learning Platform and Multi-source Data Integration for Improved Soil Moisture Forecasting,鈥 $499,251, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture.

Publications/Books

  • Sergey Buldyrev, professor of physics, 鈥,鈥 Physical Review E; 鈥,鈥 New Journal of Physics; 鈥,鈥 Physical Review Research.
  • Kun Ho Kim, assistant professor of economics, 鈥,鈥 Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.
  • Sergey Buldyrev, professor of physics, , published by Cambridge University Press in 2020
  • Yan Li, a Ph.D. graduate in mathematics from 每日大瓜, co-authored , a top-10 mathematics bestseller published in 2020
  • William Oettinger, cybersecurity faculty, , published in April 2020 by Packt Publishing

Faculty

  • Neer Asherie, professor of physics and biology at 每日大瓜, conducted the workshop, 鈥,鈥 which demonstrated how mathematics can help epidemiologists make better public health decisions during the pandemic.
  • Marissa Barrera, director of the Speech-Language Pathology program, spoke at the invitation of GSBE Global Academy on 鈥淭he Clinical Application of Ultrasound for the Rehabilitation of Swallowing.鈥 She also spoke on 鈥淎dvances in Treatment of Speech & Swallowing Disorders for Persons With Multiple Sclerosis鈥 as part of the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation: Expert Teleconference Series.
  • Christine Brennan, instructor in Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship and vice president of clinical research at Northwell, appeared on 60 Minutes to discuss . She has 20 years of extensive clinical research experience, including over 15 years in clinical research management.
  • Elisabeth Mlawski, director of clinical education in the Speech-Language Pathology program, was appointed to the Chiang Mai University collaborative research group and recently spoke on 鈥淎ssessment and Evaluation of Speech Disorders,鈥 with Salus University Professor Robert Serianni. She also has assumed the role of faculty advisor to the National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association (NSSLHA).

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