2020 Lecture
The 5th 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.
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Jason Ryan Author the following books:
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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?" |
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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 PresentationThis recognition comes with a monetary award of $600.Mark Vowels II |
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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" |
2019-2020 GSJ Staff
Jake Norris, Editor-in-Chief (2022, Computer Science)
Taylor Diggs, Assistant Editor-in-Chief (2022, Political Science)
Carleton Bailiff III, Assistant Editor-in-Chief (2021, Psychology Major)
Daniel Wilkes, Editor (2021, Political Science and History)
Steven Jones, Editor (2022, Mechanical Engineering)
Ashley Ruiz, Editor (2022, Political Science and Intelligence)
Dr. Suzanne T. Mabrouk, Advisor (Chemistry)
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