WEST POINT, N.Y. - - Sophomore Danielle Cuomo posted Army's top scores in both disciplines, finishing runner-up in smallbore behind a career-high 586, helping the Black Knights set season highs in smallbore and aggregate against No. 1-ranked West Virginia in a Great America Rifle Conference match Sunday at Tronsrue Marksmanship Center.
Cuomo's 586 smallbore score broke her season high by 14 points and her career mark by seven points finishing just one-point behind West Virginia medalist Jean-Pierre Lucas' mark of 587. Cuomo fired a perfect 10.9 standing on her last shot. Combining with Cuomo on Army's season-high smallbore team were sophomores Marvin Lewis (579) and Allen Solida (574), along with freshman Josh Martin (572). Read More
WEST POINT, N.Y. - - Army's rifle team swept medalist honors in both disciplines defeating Great America Rifle Conference rival Ole Miss , 4615-4561, Friday afternoon at Tronsrue Marksmanship Center to level its season mark at 4-4.
Owner Viola ’77 brought his team to West Point just a few days before opening night, for a team-building trip. Although the Academy is based around the military, the principles and values of West Point go beyond just the armed forces, a sentiment that Viola looked to instill in the Panthers and bring new players and returning players together to create a cohesive unit.The Panthers players decided to award a Dress Gray jacket to the game’s most valuable player after each win. One of the oldest West Point uniforms and not for everyday use, the Dress Gray is worn by cadets for formal settings including special dinners or in the presence of a prestigious speaker. Dress Gray jackets are also adorned for Army-Navy football games as well.
WEST POINT, N.Y. – Army senior running back 
WEST POINT, N.Y. - Carolyn Bockrath, Nicole Perri and Vanessa Edwards each earned All-Patriot League recognition for their individual performances this season as the Army volleyball team advanced to the Patriot League Tournament for the 16th consecutive year.
Get your tickets now to attend the Army Navy Boxing Classic, as Army gets set to square off against Navy on Friday December 12, 2014 at 10:00pm. Prelims begin at 9:30pm. To be held at the Baltimore Convention Center, Exhibit Hall G, Inner Harbor Baltimore. Army and Navy boxers will face off in seven action-packed bouts. 
The USMA Black Knight Drill Team traveled to Ithaca, NY to participate in the Cornell University Invitational Drill Competition, Nov. 15. They competed against several schools including the United States Naval Academy and Norwich University. Congratulations to the Drill Team!
The successful transformation of West Point’s History of the Military Art course could hold the key to dramatic improvements in Army learning. In order to educate and train the next generation of professional soldiers, content and curricula must be delivered in the way that the millennial generation consumes information. This has now been tested and proven by leveraging technology to breathe new life into a course best remembered by many for its massive war atlases, often 300 pages or more, depicting the movement of divisions, corps and armies on hundreds of detailed maps. 
WEST POINT, N.Y. - The Army volleyball team has advanced to the Patriot League Tournament for the 16th consecutive season and will face top-seeded American on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Bender Arena.
WEST POINT, N.Y. – The Army men’s gymnastics team announced the signing of Cole Casanova. The Texas gymnast placed eighth in the all-around competition at last year’s Texas State Championships.
WEST POINT, N.Y. - The Army football team closes the home portion of its regular season schedule on Saturday against Fordham at Michie Stadium and prior to the game Army fans are invited to visit Black Knights Alley.
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Cadet Seminar on Network Science: On 15 November a group of 30 high school students, parents, and teachers from local schools met with cadets and faculty from West Point to learn more about network science. Lori Sheetz welcomed the group with an overview of the Network Science Center and some of the research it conducts at West Point, then Cadets Will O’Keefe, Lewis Black, Ioannis Wallingford, Molly Prins, and Jake Moffatt gave brief talks explaining their projects. The purpose of the seminar was to give the high school students a chance to talk
Cadets from the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership travel to Ithaca, NY to participate in the Johnson School of Business (Cornell University) Leadership Trek. On 6 November 2014, 22 cadets from the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership traveled to Ithaca, NY to participate in the Johnson School of Business (Cornell University) Leadership Trek. These hand selected LMS cadets engaged in a series of leader development exercises with Johnson School Business Students and International Labor Relations Students. These exercises included participation in a “Critical Thinking for Leaders” case lecture, “Debt vs. Equity” case discussion, a campus tour, and participation in a round table Leadership Lesson Discussion with Cornell University Veterans. The Cadets earned high praise from Professor Risa Mish in their creative solutions and contributions to the “Critical Thinking” discussion. This Leadership Trek was the reciprocal trip for USMA hosting Cornell MBA and MILR students on the 12th of September.
On 12 November, over 75 faculty and cadets were treated to an informative and dynamic presentation by one of the world's foremost authorities on the Great Lakes region of Africa, Jason Stearns. Stearns was a guest of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and the Departments of History, English and Philosophy, Geography & Environmental Engineering and Strategic Studies. Stearns, who is currently analyzing insurgency as a social phenomenon, provided attendees with a clear picture of a complicated and tragic history of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He offered a sober assessment of a nearly twenty-year conflict which has cost over five million people their lives, clearly outlining how the US and the global community can think of what they can and cannot do to end the ongoing conflict. A journalist and scholar with over ten years’ experience on the ground in Africa, Stearns has served on UN working groups and as an expert for the International Crisis Group. He is the author of Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, a highly-regarded and probing account of conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes Region. Stearns is a Visiting Fellow in Political Science at NYU. His talk provoked spirited discussion and offered the audience real issues to consider in thinking about the US and International Community’s roles in Central Africa.
Mechanical Engineering Cadets at ARL. On 5 November, Cadets Craig Coyle and Melissa Wells, part of ‘Team High Maneuverability Airframe’ (HMA), travelled to the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) to work with Dr. Sidra Silton from the Flight Science Laboratory branch at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. Dr. Silton serves as the team’s principle client at ARL, which investigates the aerodynamics of a steerable mortar round. Preparing to conduct high fidelity simulations of the flow around the projectile at conditions that match an experiment being developed, the cadets began the complex process of generating a 3-dimensional mesh of the projectile surface and surroundings for use in the computational fluid dynamics study.
USMA Technical Scholars Visit to MIT and Lincoln Laboratories. On 7 November, LTC Mike Benson and LTC Phil Root escorted 11 scholarship candidates with interest in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, MA. The purpose of the morning visit was to conduct office calls with senior faculty and as a shaping operation as the cadets prepare applications for MIT. The extremely successful visit matched cadets with over 20 faculty members from departments such as Aero/Astro, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Nuclear Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as both Civil and Mechanical Engineering. The second half of the visit transitioned to nearby Lincoln Laboratories (LL) in Lexington, MA, who sponsors the LL Military Fellowship program. The executive director provided a program overview of the lab, and coordinated a panel of 2LTs and Ensigns from the Air Force and Navy who are current military fellows. USMA has had one cadet win a LL Military Fellowship (2LT Stuart Baker, Class of 2014), but hopes to have significantly greater success for the class of 2015 as a result of the visit.
Astronaut COL(Ret) Tim Kopra visits CME. NASA astronaut COL(Ret) Tim Kopra visited two MC306, Dynamics, classes on 10 November, and presented his experience of operating in space within the context of the class topic, "2D General Motion." He highlighted how his Army career prepared him for his NASA tenure as well as numerous vignettes of life while on orbit. COL(Ret) Kopra then joined faculty members for a no-host lunch at Grant Hall followed by a Q&A session with cadets.
Trip Section: On 14 November, NE452 (Instrumentation and Shielding) conducted a laboratory exercise out at Camp Shea (Camp Buckner). The purpose of the laboratory was to allow cadets to develop techniques and procedures in radiation room surveying, using radiation detectors in a field environment, and promote their ability to articulate the science. After receiving an in-brief upon arriving out at Camp Shea, cadets were given the mission of finding, identifying, and characterizing radioactive sources using two different detector types (current- and pulse-mode) making up more than nine different detector models. Cadets were then given the mission of out-briefing a notional senior-level commander while articulating both the short- and long-term hazards of the radioactive sources and threats. Overall, 19 cadets were trained.
ARL / USMA Technical Symposium: Cadets and faculty from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science attended the 22nd Annual ARL / USMA Technical Symposium at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland on 29 October 2014. The primary purpose for the symposium is to provide a forum where West Point Cadets and Faculty present and discuss various aspects on ARL-related research they conducted over the past year to the ARL Director, ARL Directorate Heads and Scientists, and other West Point Faculty and visitors. CDT Dylan Smith ‘15 presented his research about energy savings in military micro-grids in both a presentation and poster session. LTC Christopher Korpela presented recent results on the cadet project he advises named ARIBO (Applied Robotics for Installation and Base Operations). The symposium creates an outstanding opportunity for West Point Faculty and ARL Scientists to discuss future collaborative research opportunities. Multiple departments across USMA were represented.
EECS Cadets Visit the NSA: LTC Robertson and MAJ Ben Klimkowski accompanied the EECS NSA Fellow, Howard Taylor, and a group of 25 Cadets for a tour of the National Security Agency / Central Security Service and the National Cryptologic Museum. Overview briefings were provided by the NSA/CSS and U.S. Cyber Command, the Information Assurance Division Remote and Deployed Operations (RDO), the NSA Threat Operations Center (NTOC) and the NSA Operations Center (NSOC). The group was also accompanied by Cadets and Midshipmen from the Naval Academy, Air Force Academy, and the Coast Guard Academy.
The group received an overview of the MIT Soft Robotics Project from Lieutenant Stuart Baker, USMA Class of 2014, who is attending MIT on NSF and MIT Lincoln Laboratory fellowships. Baker is working with Professor Daniela Rus who is the Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Soft robots have the potential to create safer, more resilient, and more efficient devices in a way that traditional rigid-bodied robotics cannot. The group had the unique opportunity to speak with Professor Sangbae Kim of the MIT Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory who leads the MIT Cheetah project, a biologically-inspired robotic cheetah designed after the fastest land animal. The MIT program sets itself apart from other similar programs by being battery-and-motor driven, using custom-designed high-torque-density electric motors and amplifiers that control the motors. The team witnessed the latest version of the cheetah-inspired quadraped in an unteathered demonstration on the lawn of Killian Court at MIT. Later in the day, the team visited two different innovative approaches to startup company physical space, the first Greentown Labs, provides access to the space, resources, and funding that allows early-stage companies to thrive. The second, Artisan’s Asylum, an artisan-style facility with common prototype equipment and machinery that drastically reduces start-up costs.
Fall EN102 Hosts Academy Idol Competition: On 12 November, Fall EN102 held its annual "Academy Idol" monologue competition. Seven students, each one representing one of the seven sections of Fall EN102, performed monologues from several of Shakespeare’s plays; these included "Macbeth," "Henry V," "Richard III," and "The Tempest." The event also included a rigorous round of Shakespearean trivia, along with various video mash-ups celebrating film adaptations of the Bard's works. In the end, Cadet Robert Moser (C4) placed third for his performance as Stephano from "The Tempest;" Cadet Benjamin Hale (A1) placed second for his performance as the title character in "Macbeth;" and Cadet David Weinmann (C2) was named the Fall 2014 Academy Idol for his performance as Richard from "Richard III."
Cadets Present Papers at Fifth Mid-Hudson Undergraduate Philosophy Conference: Cadets Samuel Andersen and Murphy Danahy attended the Fifth Mid-Hudson Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Marist College on 14-15 November. CDT Andersen presented a paper entitled “The Importance of Women in a Professional Military.” this paper emerged from EP373: Topics in Ethics, a course that he took last semester; it won the Beitler award last year. CDT Danahy presented “Of Saints and Monsters: An Examination of the Responsibility of Psychopaths,” which he developed from his studies in PY201: Philosophy and Ethical Reasoning last year. Both papers were well received and were followed by a robust question-and-answer session with audience members. Conference attendees included undergraduates from MIT, Yale, and Fordham University among others. USMA was the only institution with two student papers accepted for presentation.
Jazz Knights’ Guitarist Visits Cadets in CFAF’s Jazz Forum: The Jazz Forum met on 17 November to hear from Jazz Knights Guitarist, SFC Mark Tonelli, as he discussed what makes up a good jazz playlist. SFC Tonelli spoke to a group of cadets and faculty about the genre while also playing examples from his playlist.
Focusing on Civilian-Military relations when providing Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief, the conference featured a range of speakers with vast expertise and experience. These speakers (including a USAID employee, the leader of an MIT-funded laboratory, a retired United States Marine, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense) each provided a unique view on how to incorporate the military when providing disaster relief. In addition to the discussions, the conference featured breakout sessions where each speaker could engage a smaller group of students. These sessions were extremely effective, and allowed students a fuller understanding of the military’s role in disaster relief before they put their skills to the test in the simulation.
EV300 Cadet Trip Section to USMA Recycling Facility. On 13 and 14 November 2014, cadets enrolled in EV300 Environmental Science visited the USMA Recycling Facility as part of their Environmental Pollution Block of instruction. The facility’s recycled materials include paper, cardboard, glass, printer cartridges, e-waste, scrap metal, military munitions (rounds) and others. Site operators described for cadets the challenges of weekly recycling and requested that the cadets assist in enforcing separation of municipal solid waste from cardboard, paper and other recyclable items originating in company areas. Cadets learned that the facility contributes nearly $100K to MWR funds annually, in large part due to recycling efforts within the cadet area. Inefficiencies in this process are seen as opportunity costs – funds lost due to reduction in recycled material able to be sold at market value. While on site, cadets also learned about the facility’s use of alternative energy, a photovoltaic cell array that reduces the facility’s reliance on grid-provided, fossil fuel-based electricity.
Representing Algeria, West Point was named Overall Outstanding Delegation at the conference, an accomplishment made even more notable in that five of our delegates were competing for the first time in regional parliamentary debate. The team is entirely Cadet organized, trained, and led, competing against schools whose teams take Model Arab League as a course for credit. The success at this competition is a superb accomplishment by an exceptional group of future Army leaders.
As part of the trip, MAJ Creason escorted the Cadets currently on semester abroad on a cultural immersion along Spain’s southeast coast. The immersion provided the Cadets a unique opportunity to experience Andalucian and Valencian cultures. As a group, they traveled along the Mediterranean coast. The group participated in a dinner show consisting of typical southern Spain cuisine and an exhibition of Flamenco, a typical dance that defines the regions historical blending of cultures. The trip finished with a visit to the historic towers of Valencia’s old city. From the remaining towers the Cadet’s gained an appreciation for the blending of architecture and defense. The trip was a success, and greatly benefited the Cadets understanding of regional personalities and idiomatic differences that exist in Spain.
German: Colonel Mark Gagnon, Academy Professor of German and French, conducted a visit of Semester Exchange Program sites in Germany and Austria from 10-13 November. COL Gagnon began his visit at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany, where he met with Cadets currently on exchange and with the university’s international office. Helmut Schmidt University, one of two German Armed Forces universities, is prepared to welcome four USMA Cadets in 15-2 as the program will expand to both semesters. Next COL Gagnon traveled to Wiener Neustadt, just outside of Vienna, Austria, to meet with Cadets studying at the Austrian Military Academy. USMA and the Theresian Military Academy, founded in 1751, have enjoyed a strong partnership since 2008. According to Chief of International Programs, LTC Lampersberger, the current USMA Cadets have performed superbly in the classroom and in numerous field training exercises. To conclude the trip, COL Gagnon visited Cadets at the University of the Armed Forces, Munich. COL Gagnon briefed the university’s leadership on the USMA academic program, visited classes with the USMA cadets, and toured the campus facilities. He also laid the foundation for possible expansion of the exchange program in 16-2. Throughout the trip, COL Gagnon expressed thanks for the outstanding support of our Cadets from each institution and discussed the excellent academic work and athletic contributions of the Germans and Austrians currently on exchange at USMA.
Arabic: On the 12th of November Cadets from the DFL Piano and Voice Mentorship group and from the Russian Language Club traveled to New York City to attend a performance of the ballet Giselle at Lincoln Center. The Saint Petersburg Mikhailovsky Ballet is considered one of the top ballet companies in the world. The trip expanded Cadets’ exposure to both the linguistic and cultural world of Russian ballet as well as the heights of the best of musical expression. Dr. Rajaa Chouairi and Captain Mark Dickinson accompanied the group.
BOSTON—Army capped off the three-day Terrier Invitational with a record setting performance by plebe 
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