The Journal of Young Investigators: An Undergraduate, Peer-Reviewed Science Journal

01 May 2009 - Each month, the Staff Member of the Month award is given to outstanding staff members who has shown a strong commitment to JYI and to the promotion of undergraduate scientific publication. This May, the award goes to Hoi See Tsao, the Senior News and Features Editor, and to Daniel M. Choi, Research Editor of PSM.

Hoi See Tsao is the Senior News and Features Editor at JYI. She is currently a senior and a Neuroscience major at Wellesley College. She is writing a thesis on the bactericidal mechanism of novel histone-derived antimicrobial peptides and has also done research on the cell cycle and on spinal cord regeneration. She started working with JYI during her first year in college as a Science Journalist, then as a News and Features Editor during her sophomore year before becoming the Senior News and Features Editor during the summer of 2008. JYI has been an integral part of her college experience and she is honored to have been involved in JYI in a variety of diferent positions, each of which has given her a different perspective on the workings of science journalism and helped her realize the importance of having more opportunities such as JYI that are specifically catered towards undergraduates. When she graduates in June 2009, she will be leaving JYI to teach science in Los Angeles with Teach for America. Her future plans include taking lots of road trips and going to medical school. She'd like to acknowledge the JYI family for all their support and encouragement, especially Pooja for her guidance and training for the Senior News and Features Editor position. She'll sorely miss JYI when she leaves, but is excited to watch JYI grow and expand in the future.

Daniel M. Choi first joined The Journal of Young Investigators in 2008 as an Associate Editor for PSM. He has been Research Editor of PSM since December of 2008. His research interests lie generally around complexity studies, particularly from a thermodynamics and network theory point of view, and makes many valiant (and sometimes not-so-serious) attempts to extend these heuristics to many fields, from condensed matter physics to crowd surfing. His other interests include intellectual property, sociological, anthropological, and philosophical perspectives of science, and the organization of knowledge. He hopes dearly that these interests will get him into a physics doctorate program, as he is crossing his fingers for graduating The University of Chicago with a BA in Physics in 2010.