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Goldwater Scholarships
The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation announced that Class of 2024 CDTs Justus Gabriel and Nathon Segovia, earned a Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater Scholarship is one of the oldest and most prestigious national scholarships that seeks to identify and support college sophomores and juniors who show exceptional promise of becoming this Nation’s next generation of research leaders in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Read more.
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NSF Research Fellows
Congratulations to Class of 2023 CDTs Bryn Ellwein, Mitchell Miller, Christopher Sowinski, and Jacob Willis on their National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellows selections! The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines pursuing research-based graduate degrees at accredited U.S. institutions. Read more.
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Truman Scholar
Congratulations to CDT Martayn Van de Wall ’24 who is one of 62 Truman Scholars selected from 705 candidates nominated by 275 colleges and universities, a record number of applicants. He is a graduate of the Army’s Sapper Leader and Air Assault courses, a West Point Writing Fellow, and a Stamps Scholar. Read More.
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We Remember
Annually, the Department of History’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies travels with plebes to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Recently, cadets attended the Joint Service Academies Mass Atrocity Prevention Symposium at the museum, where they shared original research on issues related to the Holocaust, genocide, and mass atrocity prevention with an audience of their peers. Read more in Cadet News.
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Cadets Learn from the LGL at MITRE and Capital One
WPAOG is supporting a capstone team this year that will present their work on Projects Day in May. Members of the team took a trip to MITRE and Capital One to further explore analytics and systems engineering in application before finalizing their project. CDTs Jacob Sayers ’23, Victorea Sangvic ‘23, and Henry Jensen ‘23 had the opportunity to network with Old Grads Rand Donaldson ’86 from MITRE, and Jeff Dietz ’98, Carl Ciovacco ’00, and Christopher Kane ’01 at Capital One.
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Stay in Touch with West Point
There’s so much great news around West Point that we often can’t include it all in Parent Review. But you can make sure you never miss a story: a digest of all the news posted on WPAOG’s website can be delivered directly to your email inbox. Visit the news page you are interested in and subscribe. The link is at the top of each page. Grad News is all about the Long Gray Line, and USMA & Cadet News highlights the Corps and the Academy. You can also follow WPAOG on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
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MG Paul Stanton ’95 on the WPAOG Podcast
This episode features an interview with MG Paul Stanton ’95, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon who sat down with BG Brian Vile ’94 and 1LT Joshua Thomas ’21 to talk about the different pathways into a career in Army Cyber, the ever-changing nature of modern warfare, and why he believes cyberspace operations is the ultimate team sport. Listen.
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To Well-Deserved Success!
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