Mechanical Engineering Student
Receives Bronze Star Medal

Lt. Michael Jay Tozzi, a surface warfare officer and Mechanical Engineering master’s student at the Naval Postgraduate School, received the Bronze Star Medal for exceptionally meritorious service during Operation Iraqi Freedom, at a special ceremony in the International Flag Garden, Aug. 5.  “I sat on the Navy Awards Board before coming to NPS, and I can tell you that for a U.S. Navy lieutenant to receive this Army award is rare and very noteworthy,” said Dean of Students Capt. Kathryn Hobbs in officiating the ceremony.  “In fact, it’s something pretty miraculous.”  U.S. Navy photo by Javier Chagoya.  Full story

NPS Explores Educational Collaboration With Prominent Jordanian Business College

From the left, NPS Provost Leonard Ferrari, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Warren Tichenor and Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chair and namesake of the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business, part of the German-Jordanian University, take a break from meetings to pose for a photo. Full story

NPS Hosts International Security Conference in Nation’s Capital

Rear Adm. Lee Metcalf, Director of the Global Maritime Situational Awareness National Office (at the podium), discusses the organization’s global maritime mission during a panel discussion with Maj. Gen. Herbert Altshuler of the U.S. Africa Command (seated left), State Department Senior Conflict Prevention Officer Cynthia Irmer and Naval Postgraduate School Prof. Frank Barrett at the 2008 Globalization and Maritime Security Conference in Washington, D.C. The three-day workshop, hosted by the NPS Security and Globalization Effects Initiative, provided a forum for international researchers and leaders to discuss issues related to globalization effects and maritime security. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kellie Arakawa. Full story.

Computer Science Faculty Win IEEE Best Paper Award

A faculty team from the Naval Postgraduate School Department of Computer Science has won the best paper award at the Second IEEE International Conference on Secure System Integration and Reliability Improvement (SSIRI) held in Yokohama, Japan, July 14-17.  The winning paper by Professor James Bret Michael (left rear) and Associate Professors Man-Tak Shing (front right), Doron Drusinsky (right rear) and Thomas Otani (front left), “Validating UML Statechart-based Assertions Libraries for Improved Reliability and Assurance,” developed the vision of star alumnus Dr. Butch Caffall, now director of NASA’s Independent Verification and Validation Facility. Caffall earned his master’s (Software Engineering, 2003) and doctoral (Software Engineering, 2005) degrees through NPS’s distance learning program while at the Missile Defense Agency and NASA, and was promoted to chief architect and technical director for the Command, Control, Battle Management, Communications element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System while in the M.S. program.  U.S. Navy photo by Prof. Craig Martell. Full story.

Cebrowski Institute to Reboot the ‘Magic and Beauty’ of Computing

Dr. Peter Denning, the Director of the Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority, poses with artwork displayed at the institute’s center in Glasgow Hall. Denning, who also serves as the Computer Science Department Chair, is heading a design team for a summit titled, “Rebooting Computing, the Magic and Beauty of Computer Science,” which will explore new ways to ignite interest in the computing field. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2^nd Class Kellie Arakawa. Full story