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Numbers Game

Numbers Game Sports analytics icons Ari Kaplan, BS (BS ’92) and Dean Oliver, PhD (BS ’90) on the next era of game-changing data by Dan Morrell Illustration by Gary Neill This year marks the 20th anniversary of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball—a book that captured a rising...

From Moon to Mars

From Moon to Mars Amit Kshatriya, MA (BS ’00), who is leading NASA’s planned return to the moon, on the power of galactic ambitions     Photography: Courtesy of NASA As the head of the agency’s new Moon to Mars program office, Amit Kshatriya, MA (BS...

An X-ray’d Supernova

An X-ray’d Supernova Robert Fisher, PhD (BS ’94), a professor at UMass Dartmouth, is one of a group of researchers who are using supercomputer-powered modeling to determine what causes Type Ia supernovae explosions. NASA/CXC/University of Texas Understanding these...

Fred Donald Russell

Fred Donald Russell Don received a Bachelor of Science (1957) and a Master of Science (1958) in Electrical Engineering from Caltech, where he was a member of Dabney House. In 1970, he received a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Don started out...