A game in the much-anticipated rivalry series between Army West Point baseball and Navy will now be carried live on CBS Sports Network. Recently announced by the Patriot League, the Army-Navy baseball game slated for March 25 at Navy's Terwilliger Brothers Field at Max Bishop Stadium will be broadcast live to a national audience. This contest was one of 13 picked up by the network, but is scheduled to be the lone baseball game.
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LTC(P) Gregory led a section of six first-class Cadets to attend the Army-Army Dialogue Mechanism (AADM) in Beijing, China. Cadets were at the forefront of engaging in and managing military-military relations between the U.S. and China.
Cadets studying abroad in Jordan had an opportunity for a rich cultural excursion, cadets Cornett, Smadi, Mathias, and Ogando traveled with AMIDEAST on the Jordanian Biblical Excursion, visiting the sites of Jesus’ Baptism in the Jordan River; Mount Nebo, where Moses viewed the Promised Land; the ancient city of Madaba; and the Dead Sea. The experience was enriching culturally, historically, and spiritually. Cadets also participated in the Amman Security Colloquial, hosted by the Arab Institute for Security Studies. They listened to several speakers, sat in on panel discussions, and attended the Security WMD Training Workshop. The conference included various speakers from different (non-US) security perspectives, and enabled cadets to gain a better understanding of the complexity behind the Middle East’s security challenges.
Firstie Marcos Arroyo of the Army West Point men's soccer team was named to the Scholar All-America Second Team by the United Soccer Coaches on Thursday afternoon after receiving Scholar All-East Region honors on Wednesday. Arroyo, who garnered Academic All-Patriot League Team accolades in early November and, is the first Black Knight since Winston Boldt '15 to earn Scholar Athlete All-America honors. On top of being a co-captain, All-Patriot League performer and Deputy Brigade Commander, Arroyo has excelled greatly in the classroom, carrying a 3.675 grade-point average as a Physics major. The Oviedo, Fla., native ranks 48th out of 1,043 in his class and has been a three-time Patriot League Academic Honor Roll member. On the pitch, he started in all 17 games and logged the most minutes by any Cadet on the team. His impact on the field led him to his second all-league selection and All-Northeast Region Second Team recognition. In his firstie season, he assisted on the game-winning goals against Marist and Lafayette, while also handing out a helper in a 2-1 win over Sacred Heart. 
Civil and Mechanical Engineering (CME) Cadets and Faculty presented at the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Annual Conference. CDT Dipak Prasad, CDT Noah Siegel, 2LT Delaforge, 2LT Ivanovsky, and LTC Norberg attended and presented scholarly work at the APS DFD in Denver, Colorado. Each presenter was given ten minutes to present research and two minutes for questions from the other conference attendees. Cadets Prasad and Siegel presented research from both their independent study and current capstone project. 2LTs Delaforge and Ivanovsky presented work supporting their Master’s thesis from St. Cyr conducted with COL Benson. LTC Norberg presented on Technical Communication in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum.
Cow linebacker Kenneth Brinson was voted onto the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America Division I Football First Team on Thursday. Brinson was selected by the Sports Information Directors from around the country as a first team honoree. A Kennesaw, Ga., native and chemical engineering major, has started every game at outside linebacker since his arrival at West Point in the fall of 2015. He has played in a total of 37 games and has 99 career tackles. He has 8.5 sacks in his career with four total in back-to-back seasons in 2016 and 2017. He is also a member of the Dean's List and has earned the Superintendent's Award while at West Point. Before arriving at the academy, Brinson was honored by the National Football Foundation as a National High School Scholar-Athlete. 
Cadets in the Core Engineering Sequence Capstone Project Course presented their final decision briefings for the Village of Suffern, NY. Two project teams hosted and briefed their client, Mayor Ed Markunas, along with Deputy Mayor Frank Hagan, on their work this semester. One team analyzed how Suffern could upgrade its wastewater treatment plant, balancing technical requirements with costing options and implementation time. The second team explored ways in which the Village could share municipal services with surrounding municipalities and reduce its net tax burden in the process.
Major Brandon Colas and members from his International Relations class sat in on a class by Dr. Paul Bracken at Yale University. Dr. Bracken is a leading expert in the application of technology in both business and defense, and his class, 'Strategy, Technology, and War' focused on the intersection between DoD policy and technological development. As a former Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) researcher, Dr. Bracken was pleased to have members of the United States Military Academy not only attend, but participate in his graduate-level class that was taught at Yale's School of Management.
The Army West Point football team had 13 cadet-athletes recognized on Phil Steele's All-Independent teams. The Black Knights were well-represented on the first team offense, defense and special teams. Ahmad Bradshaw, Darnell Woolfolk, Bryce Holland and Joshua Boylan were selected to the All-Independent First Team offense, while the second team offense included Kell Walker, Brett Toth and Mike Houghton. On the defensive side, the Black Knights landed three on the first team and two on the second squad. John Voit, Alex Aukerman and James Nachtigal were voted onto the first team, while Kenneth Brinson and James Gibson were second team honorees. Army also saw Nick Schrage make the second team among special teams player after an impressive year punting and kicking off for the Black Knights. Army is back in action on Dec. 23 in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, which will be live on ESPN at 2:30 p.m. CT. 
This semester, Dr. Fekete, Dr. Katherine Duncan, and Cadet Kaneen Manuel participated in a collaborative, interdisciplinary project aimed at producing dye-sensitized solar cells. The three participants spent multiple hours in the laboratory producing solar cells based on a dye-sensitized titanium oxide anode and a platinum cathode. Their plan was to improve the procedure and start designing their own solar cells, to include the incorporation of a printed graphene electrode. Solar cells may ultimately be 3D printed on a transparent conductive oxide layer deposited on glass. The printed devices could be of any shape or form, to include, for example, reproducing a photograph. This emerging technology promises to be less expensive than the silicon-based alternative and it is hoped to lead to thin, flexible solar panels amenable to a wide variety of lighting conditions, such as indoors, making them suitable for applications beyond rooftops and solar-panel farms.
The International Affairs Forum hosted their final panel of the semester. The "Why do states do what they do?" Panel Series on North Korea was attended by approximately 100 cadets and faculty in the Haig Room. The guests included Ms. Bonnie Glaser, senior adviser for Asia, and Mr. Ken Gause, director of the International Affairs Group at the Center for Naval Analyses. The cadets discussed North Korean state behavior based on structural conditions, domestic politics, and leadership dynamics; and to assess this behavior along with appropriate policy responses from Chinese and American perspectives.
Spanish section cadets had the opportunity to visit the Heroico Academia Militar in Mexico City. MAJ Caro Gray participated in the "Future Leaders Exchange" as the interpreter for the USMA Commandant. There were two scrimmage games between the cadet athletes of both academies with the intent to enhance the positive relationship between the U.S. and Mexican Armies. Numerous cadet-athletes that participated in the trip are students of Intense Intermediate Spanish and were a valuable communication asset to the leaders, coaches, and other cadets participating in the events.
Cow forward Madison Hovren of the 
The Engineering Psychology program recently invited Dr. Ben Sawyer, MIT AgeLab, to give a talk on the past, present, and future of automation. This yielded enlightening conversations on the extent to which we all rely on automation in our lives, and what consequences - good and bad - come along with it. To top off the talk, the cadets were invited to examine a semi-autonomous car with several self-driving technologies and learn about the features that may soon be the future of driving for all of us. Dr. Sawyer is currently planning to host E-Psych cadets and faculty for a visit to MIT AgeLab in Spring 2018.
Two teams of five Cadets from across four sections of Advanced Philosophy and Ethical Reasoning handedly won a Virtual Debate with two teams of five students from a San Francisco Bay area school and Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU). The project was to debate the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Future Wars. Two of Dr. Barry's NDNU student debaters were the android Bina48 (the world's most advanced social robot) and a NAO robot, Frisco.
