War & Narrative: Eastern European WWII Case Studies AIAD
Over the past two weeks, Dr Jessica Stock, LTC Todd Burkhardt, and eight Cadets traveled to Prague, Krakow, and Budapest in order to study literature and the ethics of war regarding specific WWII cases. This AIAD linked philosophy and literature, fundamentally merging the two disciplines in a generative relationship that reveals the theoretical and the human costs of war. The AIAD focused on Czechoslovakia's appeasement, the violation of Poland's political sovereignty and territorial integrity, and Hungary's ill-fated foreign policy. By studying just war concepts and examining the literature of WWII, Cadets were able to better understand the human element of war and see how the psychic and emotional costs of war are expressed and processed through the literary aesthetics of the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary. An academic study like this could not be complete without a large emphasis on the Jewish experience and the Holocaust of WWII.
Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
Department Academic Award Ceremony: On 21 May, The Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering hosted an academic award ceremony to present the LTG Leslie R. Groves Award to the cadet with the highest average in nuclear engineering. Dick Groves, grandson of LTG Leslie Groves, attended to present the award to CDT Victoria Ollo. Spring course awards were also presented at the ceremony.