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2026 Bowman Scholars

School of Engineering, Computing, and Weapons

1/C Gregory Bolstad

  • Major: Ocean Engineering
  • Title: Design, Testing, and Evaluation of an Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converter System for Integration with Marine Aquaculture Systems
  • Advisors: Assoc. Prof. Andy Gish - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department, LT Sarah Reilly, USN - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department Department

1/C Kathryn Brower

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Experimental Study of Robotic Cylindrical Wave Energy Converter
  • Advisors: Prof. Luska Luznik - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Prof. Levi DeVries - Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department

1/C Margo Cicero

  • Major: Nuclear Engineering
  • Title: Additive Manufacturing of Li-6 Doped Plastic Scintillators with Molecular Organic Glass
  • Advisors: LCDR Joseph Latta, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Prof. Peter Joyce - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Asst. Prof. Megan Mohadjer Beromi - Chemistry Department

1/C Joaquin Cranmore-Sanchez

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Assessment of Potential for Solar Energy at USNA and Related Facilities
  • Advisor: Dr. Robert Fishman - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C James Culpepper

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Multi-Material Selective Laser Sintering
  • Advisor: CDR Jonathan Slager, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Francesca Fede

  • Major: Robotics and Control Engineering
  • Title: The Effects of Underwater Turbulence on Structured Vectorial Light
  • Advisor: Prof. Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic - Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department

1/C Jack Hahne

  • Major: Electrical Engineering
  • Title: Controlled Electromagnetic Wave Interference for Use in Electronic Warfare
  • Advisor: Asst. Prof. Connor Smith - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

1/C Lloyd Harvey

  • Major: Nuclear Engineering
  • Title: Underwater Blast Analysis using Digital Image Correlation and Additive Manufacturing
  • Advisors: CDR Jonathan Slager, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Asst. Prof. Kaitlynn Fitzgerald - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C William Kotansky

  • Major: Nuclear Engineering
  • Title: Thermal Characterization of Diffuse Thin Film Thermoelectrics
  • Advisors: Assoc. Prof. Ronald Warzoha - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Assoc. Prof. Brian Donovan - Physics Department

1/C Samantha Loeper

  • Major: Electrical Engineering
  • Title: Omni-Directional, Piezoelectric, Diaphragm-Based Wave Energy Harvesters
  • Advisor: Asst/ Prof. Connor Smith - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

1/C Benjamin Matalavage

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Mechanical Properties of Biomineralized Materials
  • Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Emily Retzlaff - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Ryan McKee

  • Major: Electrical Engineering
  • Title: Feature Engineering for Generalizing Near-Maritime Atmospheric Optical Turbulence Machine Learning Models
  • Advisors: Prof. Charles Nelson - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Prof. John Burkhardt - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Prof. Cody Brownell - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Enzo Ross

  • Major: Nuclear Engineering
  • Title: Effect of Variable Helical Structures on Vertical Flow Regimes
  • Advisor: CDR Angel Rodriguez, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Benjamin Sprague

  • Major: Aerospace Engineering
  • Title: Autonomous Navigation of Sail Powered Unmanned Surface Vessel Through the Marginal Ice Zone
  • Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Jaye Falls - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

1/C Benjamin Usadi

  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Title: Accuracy of Additively Manufactured Gridshells in Experimental and Numerical Comparison
  • Advisors: Assoc. Prof. Samar Malek - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, CDR Jonathan Slager, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Elijah Vega

  • Major: Ocean Engineering
  • Title: Analyzing The Electrodeposition of Silica Sands Under Various Flow Patterns
  • Advisor: CDR Paul Magoulick, USN - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department

1/C Benjamin Vogel

  • Major: Aerospace Engineering
  • Title: Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) CubeSat Propulsion Research
  • Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Jin Kang - Aerospace Engineering Department

School of Math and Science

1/C Clare Blaha

  • Major: Operations Research
  • Title: Analyzing the Relationship Between Performance Statistics and Peer Rankings of United States Naval Academy Midshipmen Through Leader's Compass
  • Advisors: CAPT Kevin Mullaney, USN - Division of Leadership Education and Development , CDR Jennifer Matthews, USN - Mathematics Department

1/C Chloe Cowan

  • Major: Physics (Honors)
  • Title: The Mobile Antineutrino Detector
  • Advisors: Asst. Prof. Rachel Carr - Physics Department, LCDR Joseph Latta, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department

1/C Dylan Huffman

  • Major: Mathematics
  • Title: Supervised Learning Approach Leveraging Neuroimaging Modality Unveils Unique Phenotypic Traits between Healthy Controls and ADHD Cohort
  • Advisor: Asst. Prof. Duy Duong-Tran - Mathematics Department

1/C Abigail Morgan

  • Major: Operations Research
  • Title: Optimal Sensor Placement in Undersea Warfare
  • Advisors: Assoc. Prof. Anna Svirsko - Mathematics Department, Assoc. Prof. Daphne Skipper - Mathematics Department

1/C Graham Rose

  • Major: Operations Research
  • Title: Detecting Intelligent Targets in Anti-Submarine Warfare
  • Advisors: Assoc. Prof. Daphne Skipper - Mathematics Department, Assoc. Prof. Anna Svirsko - Mathematics Department

1/C Yelin Tahk

  • Major: Chemistry
  • Title: Effects of Bio-Based Fuels on the Swelling Properties of O-Rings
  • Advisor: Prof. Dianne Luning Prak - Chemistry Department

1/C Anthony Todd

  • Major: Operations Research
  • Title: Biobjective Optimization for Navy’s Tomahawk Missile Supply
  • Advisors: Asst. Prof. Tyler Perini - Mathematics Department, LCDR Allison Hamel, USN - Mathematics Department

1/C Molly Welch

  • Major: Operations Research (Honors)
  • Title: Operational Support Airlift (OSA) Fleet Scheduling and Validation
  • Advisor: Prof. William Traves - Mathematics Department

1/C Samantha Woodworth

  • Major: Operations Research
  • Title: Heuristic Methods to Detect Targets in Undersea Warfare
  • Advisor: Asst. Prof. Nathan Adelgren - Mathematics Department

1/C Daisy Zamora

  • Major: Physics (Honors)
  • Title: Zooming in on Dual and Binary Supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) using Aperture Masking Interferometry (AMI)
  • Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey Larsen - Physics Department
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