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USMA Debate Team In Top 10 at CEDA, NDT

The USMA Debate Team had an excellent season in 2007-2008. The team finished the season ranked in the Top 10 in the nation in both the Cross-Examination Debate Association (CEDA) and National Debate Tournament (NDT) final team rankings. This finish is consistent with the team’s recent performances and this year the team topped powerhouses such as Northwestern, Cornell, Dartmouth, Cal-Berkeley, and of course, Navy. USMA also finished second in the CEDA Northeast Regional Sweepstakes Award.

More at the USMA Debate Team Page...

USMA Cyber Defense Team Wins Again!
Cyber Defense Exercise 2008

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HOMELAND SECURITY & GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS SECURITY — West Point Wins NSA Cyber Defense Exercise (May 10, 2008) For the second year in a row, West Point took top honors in the National Security Agency's (NSA) Cyber Defense Exercise, the training competition for seven US military academies.

Cadets at West Point, the US army university, fended off SQL attacks and then realized that the relatively obvious attack was masking a more insidious one - NSA "bad guys" placed a kernel-level rootkit on West Point's network.  NSA provided some basic requirements for structuring the networks to be used in the exercise, but participants also had leeway to customize their networks; they were not, however, permitted to attack each other's networks.

Further updates to the Cyber Defense Team Page will be forthcoming.
Article from Wired.com here.

Each year, hundreds of cadets from all academic departments participate in Projects Day - an event where they can showcase academic excellence through a design project or thesis.
Cadet visits NATO Headquarters

The Dean and OIC's with Cadet Chess team and their trophies

Joshua Lospinoso (R) Class of 2009, and Dr. Frederick Moxley, United States Military Academy, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science pose for a photo during their trip to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).  During a meeting of the NATO C3 Board, Open Systems Working Group held Dec. 5-7, CDT Lospinoso and Dr. Moxley had the opportunity to discuss the USMA Network Science Center and affiliated efforts with over twenty-six national representatives from both NATO and Partner for Peace (PfP) nations.  To top off their visit, they additionally had the privilege to meet with General James N. Mattis, USMC, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) and also saw Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice while there.

Cadets win the Commander In Chief's Trophy for the 4th year in a row!

The Dean and OIC's with Cadet Chess team and their trophies

For the 4th year in a row the Cadet Chess Club won the Inter-Academy Championship.  This year only Air Force sent a team, which we handily defeated 19-13.  Outstanding cadets pictured above are from left to right: David Jacobs, Bovey Zhu, John McCrone, Steven Whitham, Stephan Wathen, Ari Gelman.  David Jacobs took 2nd overall out of a field of 75 players...

More details here.

AY 2007 Cadet Scholarship Winners

This has been a banner year for USMA cadets winning national merit scholarships!  A total of 15 have been awarded, up one from last year:

  • Rhodes - 1
  • Marshall - 3
  • Mitchell - 2
  • Churchill - 1
  • Gates - 1
  • Fulbright - 2
  • Truman - 1
  • East-West - 4

Please see our Scholarships page for information about our winning cadets.

CDT OrwinEthan Orwin is the first winner of the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Marshall Scholarship.

This scholarship is awarded to the candidate whom the New York Committee has ranked No 1 in its selection process. Read More...

Please see our Scholarships page for information about our winning cadets.

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The new USMA Library
Plans for the new USMA Library!
West Point Bridge Contest
Check out the national West Point Bridge Design competition. Can you build the best?
ACM Special Interest Group
USMA has the first-ever student special interest group in Information Security chartered by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM SIGSAC). This follows closely on USMA's designation as a National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education.
Academic Development and the West Point Experience

USMA Accreditations

The United States Military Academy is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which is the accreditation granting unit of the of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

USMA was first accredited by Middle States in 1949 and has been reaccredited each successive decade. The last Middle States accreditation site visit occurred in 1999. The next site visit is scheduled to occur during AY10. Information on Middle States, their standards for accreditation, and member institutions is available at: http://www.msche.org/

At the United States Military Academy programs in Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Management, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Systems Engineering are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET and the program in Computer Science is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD  21202-4012 – telephone:  (410) 347-7700.

Information on ABET, Inc., its criteria for accrediting programs, and a listing of accredited programs are available at: http://www.abet.org/

National Security Agency recognition - USMA was the first under- graduate institution to be awarded the prestigious NSA designation as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education in 2001 and renewed in 2004.

Wireless Education
The United States Military Academy was recently ranked among the top 50 U.S. college and university campuses in Intel's "Most Unwired College Campuses" survey.

Cadets are issued laptops with wireless capability at the beginning of their first year.

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Taylor Hall photo Art from USMA diploma Cadet awards photo Thayer cadet sculpture photo

About the artwork in the Dean's site banner:
The eagle artwork is taken from the USMA diploma. The wreath and star are cadet achievement awards. The star device (Dean's Award) signifies academic achievement and can be bronze, silver or gold. The wreath device (Superintendent's Award) signifies overall achievement in the academic, physical and military disciplines of cadet training.
The sculpture of the cadet can be seen at an entrance to Thayer Hall,
while the archway faded in the background is from a sallyport of Taylor Hall.

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