Dr. Cameron led the Spanish Section's Spring Break Cultural Immersion Trip to Costa Rica. Cadets Madeleine Easter, Fabiola Gonzalez, Peter Kusick, William Moorhead, and Eden Elizabeth Phillips visited two public elementary schools, as well as a bilingual public high school, where they assisted teachers and interacted with students in English classes.
Spring Break Cultural Immersion Trip to Costa Rica
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REBT Demonstration at Albert Ellis
cadets enrolled in the Foundations of Counseling course traveled to participate in a Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) demonstration at the Albert Ellis Institute in New York City. Cadets learned about the application of REBT theory and techniques to problem-solving and emotional regulation. They interacted with Albert Ellis Institute representatives and civilian participants from the local area through an interactive demonstration. A group discussion then addressed questions and ideas regarding the techniques, thought processes, and underlying philosophy of the theory.
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Cadet Annual Info Exchange in Kazakhstan
Ten cadets participated in an annual information exchange with Kazakh military cadets at the Almaty Defense Institute in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The purpose of the visit was to develop interoperability at the cadet-level, improve US understanding of Kazakhstan's professional military development and commissioning processes, and support the development of a military capable of conducting operations as part of a multinational force. USMA cadets took part in a series of cultural and information exchanges, as well as routine military training exercises with Kazakhstan Ministry of Defense representatives and Kazakh cadets, focusing on professional development and multinational operations. Kazakh cadets will visit USMA during the summer of 2018.
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NETCOM QRPX Low-Powered HF Radio Competition
MAJ Sherburne, CPT(P) Martin CDT Blake Wilson '18 operated West Point's US Army Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) station – AAM2P during the US Army NETCOM sponsored QRPX 2018 global High Frequency (HF) radio exercise, a no-threat competitive environment which focuses on HF radio fundamentals and developing HF skills. The objective of the competition is to make as many contacts using field expedient antennas and radios transmitting no more than 20 Watts. Cadet Wilson made six contacts with stations from the 10th Mountain Division, Nebraska's Echo Company, 134th Infantry Regiment (LRS-ABN), and various MARS stations from Illinois, New York, Kentucky, and South Carolina. MAJ Sherburne contacted the US Army Reconnaissance School in Fort Benning, Georgia and various MARS stations located in Ohio, Missouri, and Florida. The West Point MARS station made four more contacts this year than they did during last year's competition. The station was also able to send digital messages with military units.
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Model UN World Championships
Ten cadets of the Model United Nations team traveled to Panama City, Panama to participate in the World Model United Nations conference (WorldMUN). At the end of the conference seven cadets walked away as individual World Champions. In addition to the conference, cadets visited the Panama Canal, attended an address from the President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, and meet with many U.S. military officers from the Defense Attachés Office. The following cadets were recognized for their outstanding performances with Diplomacy Awards, the highest possible awards in the conference: Cameron Hay '21, John Govern '19, John Lorenz '20, Dana Cody '20, Jake Stoffel '19, Nick Cunningham '20, Amanda Horsey '19.
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Athletic Director's Update
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Radiography Project Utilizes Mailroom X-ray Machine
Two nuclear engineering majors utilized the x-ray machine in the military mailroom to further their research into establishing a radiography lab inside Bartlett Hall. While the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (PaNE) does not yet have an x-ray machine for the lab, cadets have utilized gamma sources and KACH facilities, along with a ScanX Scout computed radiography system to produce images of industrial items. The x-ray machine at the mailroom turned out to be unable to be used in academic desired ways because it is purpose built for parcel scanning. This experience with a different type of x-ray machine allows them to better understand what equipment should be procured for an industrial radiography capability in the House of PaNE.
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DLAW Professors Published in Law and Cyber Warfare
Department of Law Professors COL Dave Wallace and LTC Mark Visger were published in the Winter 2018 edition of the Journal of Law and Cyber Warfare. Their article was entitled, “Responding to the Call for a Digital Geneva Convention.” In the article, the authors respond to a speech given by Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, where he called for a digital Geneva Convention to curtail cyber-attacks by state actors. The article critiques Smith’s proposal and recommends steps to improve the legal framework governing cyber-attacks.
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Softball Splits Doubleheader with Marist on Thursday
Following a 2-1 loss in the opening game, the Army West Point Softball team bounced back to claim a 5-0 shutout victory against Marist in a non-conference doubleheader on Thursday at Gartland Athletic Field. Renee Poirier got the starting nod in the first game against the Red Foxes (13-19) and went 6.1 innings. She gave up just four hits and struck out five while not allowing an earned run. Courtney Springman started the second tilt and fanned six over five shutout innings en route to the win. Carrie Reilly and Emily Ballesteros led the charge at the plate for Army (13-20). Reilly went 3-for-4 with a home run, two runs scored and an RBI, while Ballesters batted 4-for-8 in the two games combined. Kristen McPeek also contributed at the dish, picking up a double in each of the contests. Taylor Livingston made her first collegiate start at shortstop. Poirier made her fifth start of the season. She passed Colleen McCabe '91 for seventh in all-time strikeouts with 182. McPeek tallied her 20th career double and fourth of the season. Reilly roped her fifth career double and fourth of the season. She recorded her seventh multi-hit game this season. Ballesteros notched her fourth multi-hit outing this year. She extended her hitting streak to three games. Six Cadets combined for eight hits. Read More
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Cadets Present Data at Mass Timber Conference
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering cadets Zade Koch and Andrew Valkenburg traveled to Portland, OR at the Oregon Convention Center to present their work on the ballistic performance of a "mass timber" product known as cross-laminated timber (CLT). The cadets presented results that they believe to be the first data of this type published for CLT. LTC Kathryn Sanborn, who is working on her PhD at Georgia Tech and who collaborated with the cadets in their work, was also presenting at the conference and served as the Officer in Charge (OIC) for the trip.
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Women's Tennis Shuts Out Colgate in Midweek Contest
The Army West Point Women's Tennis team got back into the win column with a dominant 7-0 victory over Colgate on Thursday afternoon at the Drumins Country Club. The Black Knights improved to 16-6 and 4-1 in the Patriot League, while the Raiders dropped to 5-11 and 1-3, respectively. Army closed out its regular season slate away from West Point with its second neutral site win of the year. The Black Knights moved to 32-10 in the all-time series versus Colgate. Alana Larcombe improved to 8-0 in duals. Ana Joyner picked up her team-leading 20th doubles victory of the season. Melanie Allen documented her 40th-career win in doubles. The Cape Coral, Fla., native tied her personal best 19 doubles victories from 2017. Gloria Son notched her 15th doubles win of the year. The Aurora, Colo., native posted her 30th career singles victory. Read More
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LTG Caslen Visits South America
Superintendent Lieutenant General Calsen '75 traveled to Bogota, Colombia and Santiago, Chile to visit cadets on semester abroad and celebrate Founders Day with graduates from the West Point Society of South America. LTG Caslen met with Colombian Army Commander MG Ricardo Gomez Nieto and gave a speech on leadership to senior Colombian cadets at the Escuela Militar de Cadetes José María Córdova after conducting physical training led by USMA cadets on exchange to Colombia. In Chile, LTG Caslen met with U.S. Ambassador to Chile Carol Pérez and the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, General Martínez. At the Chilean military academy, LTG Caslen met with the director of their school and participated in ceremonies celebrating their 201st anniversary.
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Football Inching Closer to First Spring Scrimmage
The Army West Point Football team continued its third week of spring practice on Thursday evening. The Black Knights are getting closer to their first scrimmage of the spring on Saturday and practiced under sunny skies for most of the action on Howze and Goldstein Fields. The team were not in pads on Thursday, but still had a high-intensity workout. Army started the practice with special teams and broke into individual positional drills for the first part, followed by some 7-on-7 drills and 1-on-1s with receivers and running backs against the defensive backfield.
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Cadets Research the Vernal Equinox Holiday
Eight cadets and two Department of Foreign Languages (DFL) professors from the Russian and Persian programs traveled to Central Asia as part of a year-long capstone course researching the vernal equinox holiday known as Nowruz in Persian and Navruz in Russian – a holiday celebrated for over three-thousand years from the Balkans to the Hindu Kush. The extended DFL Spring Immersion trip explored Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. At the invitation of the Dean of the International Relations Department Dr. Sagyngaliy Aidarbayev, the cadets had the opportunity to poll the opinions of students at Al Farabi National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. At the Armed Forces Academy in Tashkent, they were greeted by Deputy Commandant Col Murod Ibragimov and had a chance to exchange views and gifts with cadets studying there. This visit to the Uzbek Armed Forces Academy constituted the first by a U.S. military academy in almost thirteen years. Later, cadets visited the major sites of the ancient Silk Road where Navruz celebrations eagerly awaited: Khiva, Bukhara, and Samarkand. They then observed and joined in the celebration of the holiday itself in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
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On Point: First of Many
The United States Military Academy has been in existence for more than 216 years and has had countless well-known graduates shape the foundation of this country. Because of that, there are limited chances to be the first person to accomplish a feat at the prolific institution nowadays. But for Army West Point Women's Lacrosse player Rachel Hornick, seizing unexpected moments have given her an opportunity to achieve that accomplishment.
The Calvert, Md., native has been etching her name into Army's records book since the program's inception prior to the 2016 school year. From scoring the team's first goal to becoming its first ever 100-point scorer, there is no disputing that Hornick has left her mark permanently.
To read more about Hornick's experience at West Point and her role in building the foundation of Army's women's lacrosse program, click here.
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Cadets Attend AMSA Annual Convention
Cadets Sydney Volenec '19, Alexander Belardo-Flowers '19, Hunter Whitney '19, Georgia Cervantes '20, and Aaron Salinas '20, along with MAJ Jeremy Hershfield as the Officer in Charge (OIC) of West Point Pre-Medical Society, attended the annual American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Convention & Exposition in Crystal City, VA. Volenec, Belardo-Flowers, and Whitney are Life Science majors who will take the MCAT exam this summer as part of their applications for medical school in the fall. Upon arrival at the AMSA convention, the group attended a riveting speech on the future of medical research by Dr. Francis Collins, former leader of the Human Genome Project and the current director of the National Institutes of Health. Subsequent daily activities included various pre-medical workshops, MCAT preparation, and medical training & simulations.
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Men's Tennis Defeats Wagner on Senior Day
The Army West Point Men's Tennis team defeated the Wagner Seahawks, 4-0, Saturday afternoon at the Lichtenberg Tennis Center. Army now improves to 13-9 on the season, while Wagner falls to 7-7 overall. Cow Grant Patterson and firstie Daniel Zheng earned the doubles point for the Black Knights with a 6-4 victory over Wagner's Charlton Boyd and llya Kneppelhout. This was the fifth consecutive win for the Cadets, who will later face Monmouth at 4 p.m. the evening contest. Michael Nguyen def. Dylan Walters - 6-2, 6-3. Myles Conlin vs. Anatoliy Lashkul - 6-4, 4-3, DNF. David Mitchell def. Hans Ohrner - 6-0, 6-4. Anant Mundra vs. Eric Poland - 6-1, 4-6, DNF. Dylan Simonsen vs. Charlton Boyd - 7-5, 3-3. Daniel Zheng def. Dale Sandy - 6-3, 6-3. Read More
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Cadets Tour West Point Steam Plant
Environmental engineering majors enrolled in Air Pollution Engineering toured the West Point steam plant adjacent to Thayer Hall. Leading the tour were power plant operators as well as Dr. Tom He environmental engineer and West Point Air Quality Program Manager. The tour focused particularly on the air pollution control and monitoring systems.
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Football Goes Full Contact on Saturday
The Army West Point Football team participated in a full contact scrimmage on Saturday morning at Michie Stadium. The play was split evenly throughout the game between the offense and defense. The offense scored four touchdowns, while the defense forced three turnovers. Kelvin Hopkins Jr. got the first snaps at quarterback for the Black Knights and led the offense to an opening drive score with a 14-yard run up the middle to put the first points of the scrimmage on the board. There was a key fourth down conversion with Connor Slomka picking it up with a two-yard rush. The drive was impressive and covered 60 yards. The following possession was led by Cam Thomas and his first drive of the day didn't take long before the offense hit pay dirt. Thomas handed the ball off to Sandon McCoy and he busted through the middle and into the open for a 60-yard touchdown run. The offense was off to a great start, but the defense responded. Jon Rhattigan forced the first turnover of the scrimmage with a nice helmet-to-ball hit which put the ball on the ground and it was scooped up by Emmanuel Ukhueligbe to halt the third drive of the scrimmage. On the next drive, Kell Walker stepped in at quarterback and led the offense down the field until the drive stalled at the goal line as the defense stood strong. Walker got his revenge later with a touchdown run of about 40 yards to give the offense its third score of the day. Read More
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Writing Leadership & Telling Your Story
Jointly sponsored by the Writing Program and Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership (BS&L), this Wednesday Night Workshop is geared toward anyone working on writing that blends the narration of personal experiences with analysis of the ideas and theories of others. Such writing situations routinely occur in BS&L core courses, culminating in the Leadership Philosophy Paper (LPP) for PL300, yet they also emerge in many other circumstances—for example, in some MX400 assignments or even in some personal statements for graduate schooling. Whether you're working on the LPP, or on any other piece that blends personal experiences with outside material, this workshop led by MAJ Andrew Eljdid will help you discover effective ways to tell the story. The MWC holds Wednesday Night Workshops virtually every Wednesday, 8pm – 9pm, in JH301; most are designed for cadets, but anyone is welcome to attend. A full schedule is available at usma.edu/wpwp.
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