West Point Cadet Named Knight-Hennessey Scholar

WEST POINT, N.Y. – Stanford University recently announced that Cadet Kalista Schauer, Class of 2021, a physics with honors major from Corpus Christi, Texas, has been selected as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, allowing for continued academic study following graduation and commissioning in May as an aviation officer.

“We are extremely proud of the hard work and dedication of Cadet Schauer,” said U.S. Military Academy Dean of the Academic Board Brig. Gen. Cindy Jebb. “This most recent announcement of Cadet Schauer as a Knight-Hennessey recipient is an acknowledgment of her character, intellect, and accomplishments over the last four years. We’re proud that this bright young leader will continue to advance her academic studies at Stanford as an Army officer and strengthen partnerships through her involvement and contributions to this world-class institution.”

Schauer has worked on numerous research projects spanning quantum field theory, photonics, and quantum optics. She has been published in the Journal of Undergraduate Physics twice for her papers “Optical Buffering in a Bottle Microresonator” and “Quantum Inequalities and Particle Creation in the Presence of an External, Time Dependent Mamaev Trunov Potential”. She has interned at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on the MiniCarb satellite development team and at Los Alamos National Laboratory on the Curiosity Rover team. Additionally, Schauer serves on the Brigade Trust team for sexual assault and harassment prevention and has served as the Debate Team captain for over two years. After West Point, Schauer will pursue a master’s degree at Stanford University in Applied Physics and hopes to work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory project, researching quantum optics, materials science, and gravitational waves.

The Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, the largest fully endowed scholarship program in the world, is designed to build a multidisciplinary community of Stanford graduate students dedicated to finding creative solutions to the world's greatest challenges.
 
The program annually identifies a group of up to 100 high-achieving students from around the world with demonstrated leadership and civic commitment to receive full funding to pursue a wide-ranging graduate education at Stanford, with the goal of developing a new generation of global leaders.  

To learn more about the Knight-Hennessey Scholars Program, please visit

Knight-Hennessy Scholars (stanford.edu)

About West Point 

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is a four-year, co-educational, federal, liberal arts college located 50 miles north of New York City. It was founded in 1802 as America’s first college of engineering and continues today as the world’s premier leader-development institution, consistently ranked among top colleges in the country. Its mission remains constant—to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the nation as an officer in the U. S. Army. For more information, go to www.westpoint.edu.