Planet Cardinal

Marissa Mayer, ’97, MS ’99, vice president of search products and user experience at Google, was featured in Newsweek’s September 25 issue as one of Twenty Top Women on Leadership. . . . Andre Braugher, ’84, won his second Emmy, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, for Thief. In 1998, he won for Homicide: Life on the Street. . . . Professor of electrical engineering John Cioffi, MS ’79, PhD ’84, inventor of digital subscriber line (DSL), is the 2006 Marconi Fellow. . . . Kwabena Boahen, associate professor of bioengineering, Karla Kirkegaard, professor and chair of microbiology and immunology, and David Relman, associate professor of medicine and of microbiology and immunology, were selected for the National Institutes of Health’s annual Director’s Pioneer Award. . . . Claire Tomlin, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics, was named a MacArthur Fellow in September. . . . An independent documentary by Valarie Kaur (formerly Brar), ’03, Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath, which chronicles Kaur’s cross-country journey after September 11, premiered in Phoenix in September. . . . Jeffrey Taylor, ’87, was appointed United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. He previously served as counselor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.