Mahya Fazel-Zarandi

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@JenniferALewis1 @DARPA Thank you so much Prof. Lewis! Missing you and the lab

Congratulations to @MahyaFazel - a former REU student in our lab who was mentored by Aric Lu (now @DARPA). Way to go, Mayha👏

Princeton senior @MahyaFazel has been named an international Gates Cambridge scholar, joining Joshua Yang '25, whose award of a Gates Scholarship for U.S. students was announced earlier this year. The awards recognize students for “outstanding academic achievement” and “social leadership,” and cover the full cost of a postgraduate degree at the University of Cambridge: bit.ly/45EZIHu

Congratulations to Adriana Alvarado, Mahya Fazel-Zarandi, Celine Ho, Katie Horan and Joy Patterson — each has been awarded a ReachOut 56-81-06 Fellowship! bit.ly/41SPpfa

@yibinkang Beyond inspiring as always!!

Ran the Philadelphia Marathon today with the my daughter Michelle for her first marathon. Despite a knee injury from a fall a month ago, she stuck to her training plan and nailed it. She powered through and finished strong with a negative split, breaking 4 hours!

2024 Nobel Prize winner, the amazing @HopfieldJohn told me about his upbringing, education, and time at @Princeton That, and much more, in my interview w/ Prof. Hopfield via @princetonian @PrincetonPhys @PrincetonNeuro @PrincetonMolBio dailyprincetonian.com

Belated post on my 2nd incredible summer at @wyssinstitute working on women's health! It was filled with learning, exploring new frontiers, & sharing laughs with old & new friends - at the lab of the inspiring @DonIngber Huge thanks to my mentor Dr. Gulati & @PrincetonMolBio

The amazing @ctmurphy1, professor at @PrincetonMolBio, told me about breakthroughs in aging research and the future of longevity science That, and much more, in my interview w/ Prof. Murphy via @princetonian tinyurl.com/3kpazt9y

Princeton Professor Emeritus John Hopfield was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” Reporting by Mahya Fazel-Zarandi. dailyprincetonian.com/be5876bb-b1fb-…

In my most recent piece for @princetonian, I cover the news of @Princeton professor emeritus John Hopfield winning the 2024 #NobelPrize in physics His interdisciplinary work lies at the intersection of @PrincetonMolBio, @PrincetonNeuro, and @PrincetonPhys tinyurl.com/4ruz78m7

Congratulations to Dr. Aric Lu, who successfully defended his PhD thesis today ⁦@hseas⁩ ⁦@wyssinstitute⁩ 🌟🍾🎊🎉👏

@yibinkang Wow amazing! Congratulations Prof. Kang!!

I scored a new PR of 1:34:42 at the very hilly Princeton Half Marathon today at freezing temperature, thanks to the support of my family and running groups.

Had a great time with old and new friends in my first @BMESociety meeting #BMES2023 🙌🙌🙌 and also enjoyed my first time in Seattle ☀️☀️☀️

Had a great time presenting my work from summer 2022 at @Harvard at the @BMESociety conference (#BMES2023) in Seattle! Special thanks to the amazing @JenniferALewis1 for her continuous support and mentorship!!

I had an amazing summer at @wyssinstitute at @Harvard - full of learning about cutting-edge science, exploring new frontiers, and laughing with new friends - at the lab of the amazing @doningber Special thanks to my great mentor Aakanksha Gulati and @PrincetonMolBio

Extremely happy to see this! Prof. Gingras and @gingraslab1 hold a special place in my heart as the first research lab that I worked at. Prof. Gingras has been an amazing mentor for me, truly an inspiration for me and many other girls!!

On the Homo naledi papers & @eLife reviews: @MahyaFazel & @julian_h_s updated their story following publication of the reviews: dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/0… And @ewencallaway wrote this piece highlighting the reviews/ featuring several reviewers: nature.com/articles/d4158… Good models

This is truly one of the most inspiring and uplifting stories I have ever read! I met Prof. Kang at the beginning of my freshman year at Princeton, and he immediately struck me as a super-prof; now I know that he is also a super-dad who has raised a super-son. A must-read!!

Shoutout to @julian_h_s for his work on this!

Last week, I covered the discovery of a Homo naledi burial site by a @NatGeo team for @princetonian We later came across new information from the peer reviews revealed publicly shortly before initial publication Check out our updated piece to read more tinyurl.com/2p8ez6vr