“They say that math is a language in which God wrote the universe. And so you have to be proficient in math to be proficient in science,” Col. Corey Gerving, a U.S. Military Academy professor in the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, said as he explained how important a role science plays in the advancement of military strategy. ...

James Gagliano has carried a valuable lesson with him that he learned 37 years ago as a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point....

Class of 2021 Cadets Evan Walker (left) and Tyrese Bender earned Rhodes scholarships in an announcement Nov. 21, 2020. The two cadets will study abroad for their master’s degrees at Oxford Unversity in England. Daine Van de Wall, first captain and U.S. Military Academy Class of 2020, was the last cadet to receive a Rhodes scholarship. The last time the academy produced two Rhodes Scholars in a year was in 2014. Born and raised in Rowlett, Texas, Walker is an Operations Research major and was the Cadet Basic Training regimental commander last summer. While at Oxford, she will read for a Master in Philosophy in Comparative Social Policy with a focus on the intersection between policy and inequalities in the workplace and their influence on social inclusion and mobility for racial and gender minorities. From San Antonio, Bender, who is currently the deputy brigade commander, is an Engineering Management major at West Point and he will pursue a Master of Science in Computer Science in Sociology and Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation at Oxford. ...

How do a leaders know when they’ve made the right choice before the results prove them right? What does it take to effectively lead Soldiers, or to make a decision you know is right even when detractors say otherwise? For cadets at the U.S. Military Academy, these are questions that typically arise as the years go by and as cadets steadily reach the end of their tenure at the academy and prepare for big Army. ...

As West Point continues to produce multiple research projects to advance the Army warfighter, cadets at the U.S. Military Academy are constantly at work reaching technological breakthroughs that make those advancements possible. Class of 2021 Cadet Thomas Aldhizer is one of many cadets using his passion for physics to develop contingency measures to potentially safeguard the lives of Soldiers on the battlefield. Aldhizer has spent most of his tenure at West Point defining theories related to lessening the variability of swinging when a casualty is being hoisted up into a Medevac helicopter. This year, the fruits of his labor finally came with the Thomas Young Award for outstanding research in physics....

On Sept. 11, 2001, as Americans watched the Twin Towers crumble and a plane crash into the side of the Pentagon, the word terrorism suddenly...

Standing in front of his class in Bartlett Hall, Lt. Col. Corey James begins to write a chemistry equation on the board. He has already gone...

When describing the Master Resiliency Training course that he and 41 of his fellow cadets took over a recent two-week period, Class of 2021...

As the first target pops up during the new Army Rifle Qualification Test, the U.S. Military Academy cadets taking part fire one round each...

The sound of gunfire echoed through the woods at Camp Buckner as cadets worked together to neutralize an enemy. The bullets may have been...