Lt. Col. Leann Ferguson has observed many U.S. Air Force Academy Department of Mathematical Sciences female cadets’ confidence soar after attending the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics.
A cadet from the Class of 2022 desperately needed an experience to boost her confidence, said Ferguson, the department’s faculty development director and assistant mathematical sciences professor. She made certain that the cadet...
U.S. Air Force Academy Law Professor Douglas McKechnie is a scholar through and through. What his department head, Col. Tara Villena, calls “a true civilian,” McKechnie has never served in the military, but true to his thirst for knowledge, Villena says he “dove headfirst into everything [Academy].” Ten years after first taking his position here, he “now knows more about the military than some of us who are active duty,” the colonel says.
Cadet 2nd Class Kelsey Monaghan-Bergson says she feels empowered to challenge traditional thinking for more innovative solutions each time she visits Air Force CyberWorx.
“In the CyberWorx space, I can just let my brain roam,” Monaghan-Bergson said. “I can doodle on a wall and throw sticky notes everywhere. I can visualize abstract concepts and translate them into engineering systems and map out neural networks. I just let my...