Matthew Carey (’85) Appointed to HHS Committee

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Matthew Carey (’85) has been appointed one of 15 public members on the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. According to the Health and Human Services press release

Dr. Matthew Carey is the father of a young child with multiple disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder, and is a frequent contributor to the Left Brain/Right Brain blog and the Autism Science Foundation Blog. His writing focuses on reviewing current autism research in an understandable way for the public and he is deeply committed to communicating the importance of getting the science right for autism. He is also interested in analyzing trends in health and education public datasets. Dr. Carey is an active industrial researcher in computer hardware whose current research interests include magnetic thin films, spintronics, and magnetic nanostructures. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of California, San Diego, and his M.S. in Physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

What the release somehow failed to point out is where Matt earned his undergraduate degree in physics, a deficiency we remedy herein.