MORGAN MADE
Charneta Samms
U.S. Army DEVCOM’s New Chief Technology Officer On campus in February for the first time in many years, Morgan alumna Charneta Samms said she was amazed at “how much the campus has expanded and grown. It’s beautiful, all these facilities. I have to come back for my own personal tour of everything. There’s just so much more I haven’t seen.” Samms’ return to her alma mater was also cause for Morgan to celebrate: the MSU industrial engineering graduate — Bachelor of Science, 1996 — had recently been appointed chief technology officer of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), the Army’s largest technology developer. As the command’s first-ever permanent CTO, Samms serves as chief integrator of its multibillion-dollar research and technology mission. She came to Morgan in February as part of the high-level group accompanying U.S. Secretary of the Army
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Christine Wormuth, who made an all-day visit to MSU to review the University’s research capabilities and potential and get firsthand experience with Morgan’s U.S. Army ROTC program, the Bear Battalion. “The education I received from Morgan State University was instrumental in developing the analytical mindset that has been key to all my career successes,” says Samms, who went on to earn a Master of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. “My MSU professors encouraged me to question and analyze information, which fueled the ferocious fire of curiosity that drives me every day.” Samms’ path to Morgan began in her hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York, where she lived until her family moved to Newport
