On 2 FEB 13, a USMA interdisciplinary research team collaborated with Nobel Laureate Dr. Paul Greengard (just left of center) at Rockefeller University in Manhattan on a project aimed at reducing Army suicide rates.
On 26 March, 17 cadets from USMA’s Air Pollution Engineering class (EV397) travelled to Linden, NJ to view air pollution control devices at the Phillips 66 Oil Refinery, the largest oil refinery in the eastern United States. Cadets saw firsthand air pollution control devices such as scrubbers, cyclones, and selective catalytic reduction units (which reduce NOx to N2 gas).
From Thursday 18 April 2013 to Saturday 20 April 2013, USMA, USNA, USAFA, and USGCA participated in the 4th Annual Inter-Academy Chemistry Symposium (IACS) at the Coast Guard Academy enabling an Inter-Academy level exchange of ideas and a broadening experience between chemistry, life science, and chemical engineering faculty, cadets, and midshipmen.
On 30 JAN 13, MAJ Isaac Faber took seven cadets from the Systems Engineering honors program to the Rutgers "Quantitative Finance Summit on Risk Management‟ at the New York Stock Excahnge, where the cadets saw firsthand how classroom lesssons are employed in the real world.
On April 5th, the Mechanical Engineering Club visited the GE Aviation facility in Lynn, MA that designs, builds, and tests the gas turbines that power all Army helicopters along with several other aircraft used by sister-services.
From 14-16 JAN 13, the Department of Systems Engineering sent cadets from both the SE403 year-long capstone and SE450 semester capstone project to Fort Campbell to meet with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR).
Holocaust Survivor Henry Greenbaum answering questions from West Point cadets in an informal setting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on 25-26 JAN 13.
Cadets Oriana Ellis (2014), Marion Weidemann (2015), Cory Trainor (2013), Danielle Cummings (2014), Kiley Hunkler (2013), and Lisa Kim (2013) pose with General Trainor and Dr. Michael Labare after wining first place in the 2013 Soldier Design Competition at MIT.