2020 Lecture

The 5^th Annual Gold Star Journal Academic Conference (GSJAC)

"A Celebration of Scholarship"

Tuesday, March 24, 2020 (Canceled)

6-8:30 pm

Buyer Auditorium, Mark Clark Hall

Citadel Students, Faculty, and Staff Welcome

This spectular evening would have marked the fifth anniversary conference. The featured speakers would have included the published authors from The 2020 Gold Star Journal (GSJ) and Renowned Author Jason Ryan. Nonfiction author Jason Ryan would have discussed the thrills of investigatory research, the importance of narrative storytelling, and the crucial roles several Citadel alumni played in South Carolina’s famous drug smuggling case, Operation Jackpot.

The conference would have included dinner, presentations, awards, a journal signing and cake cutting.
Free copies of the journal would have been available for signing.
Copies of Jason Ryan’s book would have been available for sale and signing.


Jason Ryan Author the following books: Jackpot: High Times, High Seas, and the Sting That Launched the War of Drugs Hell-Bent: One Man’s Crusade to Crush the Hawaiian Mob Race to Hawaii: The 1927 Dole Air Derby and the Thrilling First Flights that Opened the Pacific.	Elizabeth Spoehel Class of 2020 Mathematics and Computer Science Major "Ethics of Artificial Intelligence"	Grant Speer Class of 2022 Politocal Science Major "Antarctica: Continued Cooperation?"

Matthew Blair Class of 2020 Mathematics and Computer Science Major "Wisdom of the Crowd"	Mark Vowels II Class of 2020 Intelligence and Security Studies Major "Human Trafficking: A Major Issue for the US"	Best Oral Presentation This recognition comes with a monetary award of $600. Mark Vowels II

Luke Timmerman Class of 2022 Mechanical Engineering Major "American Nuclear Energy in the Twenty-First Century"	Kennedy Fravel Class of 2023 Biology Major "Defining the Gap between Reality and the Fantastic in E.T.A. Hoffman's Romantic Literature"	Harrison Wedgeworth Class of 2021 English and French Double Major "Identifying the Impacts Due to the Correlation Between Charleston’s Crime Rate and Gentrification"