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The USIBA national championships are currently underway at Virginia Military Institute, with semifinals set for tonight at 6 p.m. in Cocke Hall.
![Maj. Jennifer Gerow and Lt. Col. Spencer Bakich confer with Col. Mohamed Eltoweissy on the cybersecurity minor. – VMI Photo by Kelly Nye.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/CyberSecurityMinor2017KN05-1-400x276.jpg)
VMI's new cybersecurity minor, a collaborative effort involving six departments, will be open to any cadet in any major.
![National Society of Black Engineers cadets visit Central Elementary School.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/NSBEatCentral2017HLM110-1-400x266.jpg)
Four cadets in VMI's chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers recently attended a conference that allowed them to meet minorities with successful careers in both the military and the private sector.
![A portrait of Steve Maconi.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/Steve-Maconi-03-2017TN-400x266.jpg)
After an exhaustive search, the presidents of the VMI Alumni Association, the VMI Foundation, and the VMI Keydet Club announced the hiring of a new CEO to lead the combined VMI Alumni Agencies.
![A photograph of Eliot Cohen.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/Untitled-1-1-400x266.jpg)
Eliot Cohen, a Johns Hopkins University professor who has served as counselor of the U.S. Department of State will speak tonight in Marshall Hall’s Gillis Theater.
![Conquest Visiting Chair Claudia Smigrod shows cadets Angelique Barlow ’17 and Albert Wu ’17 how to print a positive image from a negative using an enlarger in the Preston Library darkroom. – Photo courtesy of Albert Wu ’17.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/Darkroom2017AlWu0016-1-400x266.jpg)
Two new photography courses being taught in the ERHS department this spring are exposing cadets to one of the youngest of the visual arts.
![A headshot of Christopher Fettweis](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/fettweis_christopherTN-400x300.jpg)
Dr. Christopher J. Fettweis, associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Tulane University, will speak March 8 at 7:45 p.m.
![Edward Matheny receives an award at the 2016 staff breakfast.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/StaffBreakfast2016JRR0100-1-400x266.jpg)
VMI Police Lieutenant Edward Matheny, a 37-year employee of the Institute and an active member of the community, died Saturday, March 4, at the age of 56.
![Author and veteran Daniel Rodriguez speaks in Gillis Theater last night. – VMI Photo by Kelly Nye.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/RodriguezTalk2017KN085Web-1-400x276.jpg)
Veteran and author Daniel Rodriguez spoke on overcoming adversity to find success playing football at Clemson University and graduating with honors.
![Maj. Matt Jarman demonstrates a defensive move during his modern warriorship class. – VMI Photo by H. Lockwood McLaughlin.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/ModernWarriorship2017HLM0179-1-400x266.jpg)
A new course in the psychology department emphasizes mental toughness in addition to physical fitness.