Catherine Donner, a recent graduate of the Data Science and Analytics master's program, has been awarded the Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship. The SMART Scholarship provides full tuition funding, annual stipends, and guaranteed internships and post-graduate employment with the Department of Defense. With the SMART Scholarship, she will be continuing her education at OU starting in the fall through the Data Science and Analytics PhD program with Dr. Anindya Maiti as her advisor. She plans to study neuromorphic computing, federated learning, and explainable AI with public policy and defense applications as part of her dissertation. Catherine worked as a graduate research assistant at DISC from January 2023 to May 2024, where she worked on projects including the Tinker Air Force Base Supply Chain Risk Management project, the Social Media Analytics and Reporting Toolkit (SMART) NATO project, and the NSF AI AG project. Her thesis research focused on analyzing various misinformation detection methods including large language models (LLMs), unsupervised learning models, and generative AI models.