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A celebration of West Point authors

Christopher Barth, the associate dean and director of Libraries and Archives at the U.S. Military Academy, was the master of ceremonies during an event that highlighted more than 300 works of scholarship produced at the academy between July and December 2021 on May 5 at the Haig Room in Jefferson Hall. ...

Cadets receive executive education during Negotiation Workshop

The extensive development of leadership and character growth is a perpetual process at the U.S. Military Academy. Cadets take many academic and military skills courses to commission as second lieutenants and effectively lead the Nation's Soldiers. Among the many skills they can learn is the art, technique and tactics that go into negotiation during the West Point Negotiation Workshop, which took place between March 30-April 1 at Eisenhower Hall. ...

Reed speaks at Class of 1952 Lecture

The Department of Social Sciences hosted its Class of 1952 Distinguished Lecture with the Honorable Jack Reed, U.S. senator from Rhode Island, as the guest speaker, Friday at Eisenhower Hall. The audience of the Corps of Cadets, staff and faculty heard Reed speak on topics ranging from the health and stability of American democracy to the strategic competition among the United States, Russia and China during his talk. ...

West Point hosted NATO Workshop to revise outdated strategies

Senior NATO officials looked to West Point to organize and lead a workshop to help revise the outdated NATO Strategic Concept. ...

NIH awards USMA, CUNY SPH grant to establish first AI, center for nutrition

As a math professor at the U.S. Military Academy, Dr. Diana Thomas begins her day every morning at 4 a.m. going through standard emails, but on this day, she would receive an email that would change her, and her teamʼs lives forever....

A Look Back: USMA, Army Research Lab collaborate on Applied Research

West Point recently hosted nearly 200 contributors for a hybrid Army Research Laboratory-U.S. Military Academy Technical Symposium (AUTS). Scientists, faculty and cadets from across the two organizations shared their ongoing research efforts at the annual event meant to strengthen the 30-year-old partnership....

Cadets create, innovate for their WAR Capstone research

Last semester, Lt. Col. Steve Crews, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, mentored a capstone team of four cadets as they spent their academic year developing autonomous robots....

MWI hosted CSMs panel on building cohesive teams through trust

As part of the Commandant’s Speaker Series, the Modern War Institute hosted a panel discussion on “Building Cohesive Teams through Mutual Trust” on Oct. 21 at Washington Hall Room 5300. ...

West Point holds 2021 Conference on the Ethics of War and Peace

On Sept. 11, 2001, Americans observed as two planes crashed through the north and south towers at the World Trade Center, forever impacting life in the United States. ...

MWI hosts panel on adversary capabilities, strategies

“China is, in fact, our pacing challenge and it is my priority focus,” said Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during a hearing on the 2022 Budget Request for the Defense Department on June 17, 2020. ...