“In a joint effort, the Combating Terrorism Center and the Department of Chemistry and Life Science at West Point have assembled some of the best and brightest thinkers in the counterterrorism, policy and scientific communities around the world for their perspectives and analysis on the evolution of the biological threat picture.” — Paul Cruickshank, Combat Terrorism Center Sentinel Editor-in-Chief. ...

Col. Diana Loucks has a passion for understanding space weather and its impact on military effectiveness. Her work investigates how the aurora affects GPS signals in the Arctic. ...

Normally, their uniforms are professional civilian attire, but for these few days in the late spring, they suited up in Army uniforms with tightly laced boots....

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, 2022, at the Haig Room in Jefferson Hall. ...

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, 2022, at Eisenhower Hall. ...

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. ...

Senior NATO officials looked to West Point to organize and lead a workshop to help revise the outdated NATO Strategic Concept.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

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....

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....

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....