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NPS Grad Cmdr. Joey Frantzen Returns to Monterey as XO of USS Mobile Bay
Jul 28, 2010
It takes a lot of qualified men and women to operate the San Diego-based guided missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG-53). The crew of 320 take their responsibilities seriously aboard what could be the m... Read More

Alumnus, Energy Secretary Buzz Savage Lectures on Nuclear Future
Jul 1, 2010
What if you found out you were only using about one percent of the oil and gasoline that you put into your car, and discovered the rest was just shipped off to sit and decay for the next 100,000 years... Read More

NPS Grad Becomes First Female IW Flag
May 7, 2010
The Naval Postgraduate School has a reputation for educating and supporting some of our military’s best leaders in the most pressing areas of national security today. In each graduating class, some st... Read More

Area Students Get a Call from Orbiting Space Shuttle Discovery
Apr 13, 2010
More than 1,000 students, parents and members of the NPS community packed King Auditorium Saturday morning where they received a call from the Space Shuttle Discovery orbiting more than 200 miles into... Read More

Apollo 11 Hero Regales Space Systems Students, Faculty
Dec 21, 2009
Neil Armstrong’s ‘giant leap for mankind’ would have turned into tragedy had it not been for the fast thinking and courageous action of a Naval Postgraduate School distinguished alumnus, retired Navy ... Read More

Special Ops Head, Alumnus Addresses Defense Analysis Students
Dec 4, 2009
Since the Special Operations curriculum of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Defense Analysis Department is sponsored by the U.S. Special Operations Command, a visit and special lecture by USSOCOM Comma... Read More

Marine Air Wing Commander Congratulates Summer Grads
Oct 7, 2009
Commanding General of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Maj. Gen. Thomas Conant rallied 255 Naval Postgraduate School graduates to use their intellectual capital to the fullest in their continued careers a... Read More

NPS Mourns Passing of Legend Rear Adm. Wayne E. Meyer
Sep 2, 2009
The Naval Postgraduate School mourned the passing of one of its greatest Hall of Fame Alumni, “Father of the Aegis” Rear Admiral Wayne E. Meyer, Sept. 1. The Aegis is the Navy’s primary ship air-defe... Read More

NPS Astronaut Alumni Star in Centennial Air and Space Week
Aug 25, 2009
One-third of U.S. astronauts are graduates of the Naval Postgraduate School, more than any other graduate university in the world, and a large number returned to their alma mater in August for a Cente... Read More

Mullen Inducted into NPS Hall of Fame
Aug 13, 2009
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was inducted to the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Hall of Fame during an all-hands ceremony August 11. Mullen, an NPS graduate who received ... Read More

Original Mercury 7 Astronaut, Alumnus Scott Carpenter Shares Insights with Past, Future Space Travelers
Jul 16, 2009
Naval Postgraduate School alumnus retired Navy Cmdr. M. Scott Carpenter – the second American to orbit the Earth and the world’s first astronaut/aquanaut – celebrated the 47th anniversary of his ... Read More

NPS Remembers VADM (Ret.) Thomas Hughes
Jan 22, 2009
Students, faculty and staff from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) gathered at the St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel Jan. 16, to remember retired Vice Adm. Thomas Hughes, an NPS Distinguished Alumnus who on... Read More

'84 Classmates Receive Distinguished Alumnus Awards in Dual Ceremony
Dec 31, 2009
Two graduates of the Naval Postgraduate School December 1984 class were honored with Distinguished Alumnus Awards in a dual ceremony in the Barbara McNitt Ballroom, Dec. 19. NPS President Daniel Olive... Read More