From Naval Academy Public Affairs
The U.S. Naval Academy has selected the following ten midshipmen as Trident Scholars for the 2010-2011 academic year: Midshipmen 2nd Class James Berg, an honor mathematics major from Bear, Del.; Alexander Buck, an aerospace engineering major from Lisle, Ill.; Daniel Chan, an economics major from Singapore; Nicholas Dunn, an aerospace engineering major from Pacific Palisades, Calif.; Anthony Hizon, a computer engineering major from Anaheim, Calif.; Grant Morgan, a physics major from Ijansville, Md.; Eowyn Pedicini, a chemistry major from Los Alamos, N.M.; Andrew Stephenson, an information technology major from Carson City, Nev.; Jacob Stevens-Haas, a quantitative economics major from Westfield, N.J.; and Steven Yee, an electrical engineering major from Carmel, Ind.
“Each midshipman has demonstrated exceptional academic achievement and has been recommended for this honor by the 2010 Trident Scholar Committee,“ said Naval Academy Academic Dean and Provost Dr. Andrew Phillips.
The Naval Academy Trident Scholar program began in 1963 to provide opportunity for a limited number of exceptionally capable students to engage in independent study and research during their senior year. Each year, midshipmen in the top ten percent of their class at the end of the fall semester of their junior year are invited to submit research project proposals and programs of study for evaluation.
Trident Scholars have modified academic programs for their first class year, substituting research courses and theses for traditional courses within their major. Midshipmen chosen for the Trident Scholar program for the next academic year are named each spring.
“The exceptional quality of this and other Naval Academy student research programs can be directly attributed to the sustained and consistent support provided to the Naval Academy by the Office of Naval Research (ONR),“ said Dr. Carl Wick, associate director for midshipmen research at the academy.
In the past three years, ONR has contributed more than $8 million to support over 80 program areas of science and technology research at the Naval Academy.
In April 2011, each scholar’s project accomplishments will be assessed by the Trident Scholar Committee through an evaluation of each final written report and presentation. The Trident prize will be awarded to the scholar producing the most outstanding Trident project for the 2011 graduating class.
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