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Systems Engineering Professor Awarded Prestigious ACE Fellowship
Sep 1, 2011
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Professor of Systems Engineering, Dr. David H. Olwell, was recently named a Fellow of the American Council on Education (ACE). The ACE Fellowship Program is a yearlong ... Read More

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta Returns Home to Address NPS Community
Aug 25, 2011
The United States Secretary of Defense returned to his hometown, Aug. 23, to deliver a Secretary of the Navy Guest Lecture (SGL) to NPS students, faculty and staff packed into King Auditorium. Longtim... Read More

NPS Student Named “Marine Corps Times” Marine of the Year
Jul 20, 2011
A Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) student has been named the “Marine Corps Times” Marine of the Year for 2011, and will be presented the award during a ceremony in Washington, D.C., July 21, with memb... Read More

Retired Navy Officer Turned Business School Prof. Honored with Annual Schieffelin Teaching Award
Jul 14, 2011
E. Cory Yoder, a retired Navy commander turned Senior Lecturer for the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy (GSBPP) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), received the Admiral John Jay Schie... Read More

Ops Research Professor Honored with National SCEA Award
Jun 29, 2011
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Visiting Professor of Operations Research, Dr. Dan Nussbaum, was recently honored with the Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis’ (SCEA) 2011 Service to the Society... Read More

Naval Postgraduate School Awards Longtime Senator John Warner with Honorary Doctorate
May 27, 2011
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) honored former Senator John Warner with an honorary Doctor of Military Science degree, May 25, during a formal ceremony held on the university campus. Warner served... Read More

Naval Postgraduate School Earns Landmark Second Consecutive Ten-Year WASC Reaccreditation
Apr 5, 2011
The Naval Postgraduate School just received the highest possible ten-year reaccreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), for the second consecutive term. In his letter o... Read More

CNO Roughead Keynotes Winter Graduation Ceremonies
Mar 30, 2011
Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead inspired graduates from all the military services and nine allied and coalition partner nations during his keynote address at the Naval Postgraduate Sch... Read More

Aerospace Industry Veteran Turned Physics Professor Wins 2011 Hamming Interdisciplinary Award
Mar 23, 2011
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) presented the 2011 Richard W. Hamming Annual Faculty Award for Interdisciplinary Achievement to Dr. Ronald E. Brown, Research Professor of Physics in the Graduate S... Read More

NPS Professor Wins Prestigious Engineer of the Year Award
Feb 1, 2011
NPS Professor Bret Michael was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Reliability Society’s 2010 Engineer of the Year Award at their annual awards banquet on January 22 i... Read More

NPS Inducts Three New Members into Hall of Fame
Dec 9, 2010
Friends and family of three NPS Hall of Fame inductees filled the Quarterdeck of Herrmann Hall with the melodies of the Del Monte Brass playing in the background. It was a warm walk down memory lane w... Read More

NPS Student Wins 2010 USNI Robotics Essay Contest
Dec 8, 2010
A student from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) won the 2010 annual U.S. Naval Institute (USNI) Robotics Essay Contest. With his essay entitled, “How to Fight an Unmanned War: Tactics in Robotic Wa... Read More

OR Professor Named Recipient of 2010 Menneken Award
Dec 8, 2010
Royset was recognized for both the quality and quantity of his research, the impact his results have had on the Departments of the Navy and Defense, and his exemplary collaboration with NPS students i... Read More

Professor Sophal Ear Awarded Fulbright Grant
Dec 1, 2010
Sophal Ear, an Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), was recently awarded a Fulbright grant in conjunction with the Fulbright Senior Specialist desig... Read More

Alumnus Honored by ASNE for Excellence in Naval Engineering
Nov 22, 2010
Cmdr. Bradford Bittle, an NPS electrical engineering graduate, was named the 2009 Claud A. Jones Award winner for his significant contributions to naval engineering by the American Society of Naval En... Read More

NPS Professors Awarded J. Steinhardt Prize by INFORMS Military Applications Society
Nov 16, 2010
Two Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) faculty were selected as this year’s recipients of the J. Steinhardt prize by the Military Applications Society (MAS) of the Institute for Operations Research and t... Read More

NPS Librarian Named Federal Librarian of the Year
Oct 27, 2010
On April 24, 1800, the Library of Congress (LC) was established as an act of Congress under a bill by President John Adams. Housed in the Capitol Building, the LC exclusively provided reference materi... Read More

Ph.D. Alumnus Awarded Top Honor by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Oct 14, 2010
On Sept. 18, NPS alumnus Air Force Maj. Christopher McClernon accepted the prestigious Alphonse Chapanis Best Student Paper Award at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Conference in San F... Read More

University Recognizes Newest Slate of Distinguished Faculty
Sep 29, 2010
Six members of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) faculty were recognized as Distinguished Professors during the summer quarter graduation ceremony in King Auditorium, Sept. 24. “The title of Distin... Read More

Business School Prof. Named 2010 Richard W. Hamming Award Recipient
Sep 13, 2010
Associate Professor Rene Rendon of the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy (GSBPP) has been named the 2010 Richard W. Hamming Teaching Award winner, announced by Provost and Executive Vice P... Read More

NPS Presented With National Federally Employed Women Award
Aug 25, 2010
The Central Coast Chapter of Federally Employed Women (FEW) officially presented the Naval Postgraduate School with FEW’s 2010 Federal Agency Award, given to university President Dan Oliver by outgoin... Read More

Professors Honored With AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award
Aug 25, 2010
During an August 3 ceremony in Toronto, Canada, NPS Professors Isaac “Mike” Ross and Fariba Fahroo were presented with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Mechanics and Contr... Read More

Head of Thai Ministry of Defence Inducted into NPS Hall of Fame
Aug 19, 2010
The Naval Postgraduate School welcomed General Apichart Penkitti, Permanent Secretary of Defence of the Thai Ministry of Defence, into the university’s Hall of Fame, placing him in a distinguished gro... Read More

Three NPS Faculty Win Prestigious DURIP Awards
May 14, 2010
Three Naval Postgraduate School faculty members have been selected to receive prestigious Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Awards for fiscal year 2010: Mechanical and Aerosp... Read More

Nancy Haegel Receives Allen S. Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching
May 7, 2010
Naval Postgraduate School Distinguished Professor Nancy Haegel was one of 21 Monterey Peninsula teachers to receive the 2010 Allen S. Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching, honored for her positive... Read More

NPS Doctoral Student Receives Prestigious National Fellowship
Apr 30, 2010
Naval Postgraduate School Oceanography doctoral student Jenna Brown has been selected by the Office of Naval Research to receive the highly competitive National Defense Science and Engineering Graduat... Read More

Bronze Stars, Navy Assistant Secretary Juan Garcia Headline Winter Graduation Ceremonies
Mar 31, 2010
Two hundred forty six U.S. and international students earned the right to toss their tassels at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Winter Quarter 2010 graduation ceremonies, Mar. 26 in King Auditorium. ... Read More

Systems Engineering Management PD-21 Grad Promoted to SES
Mar 2, 2010
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) graduate Thomas Irwin has been appointed to the Senior Executive Service and will be assigned as enterprise Business Director for U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) in... 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

NPS Student Honored at White House Celebration
Aug 6, 2009
What seemed like a typical Fourth of July celebration – a barbecue with friends and family, entertainment and fireworks – was in fact a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Naval Postgraduate School (NP... Read More

Distinguished Prof, Marine Capt. Headline Spring Quarter Award Winners
Jun 21, 2009
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) students, faculty and staff were recognized for their outstanding research and academic excellence at the Spring 2009 Awards Ceremony June 9. Officiated by NPS Dean of... Read More

NPS Receives Prestigious National Information Assurance Dual Designation
May 29, 2009
The National Security Agency (NSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have announced the designation of the Naval Postgraduate School as an Information Assurance (IA) Center for Academic Excell... Read More

Senate Confirms Professor Paul Stockton as Assistant Secretary of Defense
May 19, 2009
Dr. Paul Noble Stockton, former Associate Provost at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), was confirmed yesterday, May 18, by the U.S. Senate as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense... Read More

Legion of Merit Headlines Winter Awards Ceremony
Mar 20, 2009
The festive spirit of St. Patrick’s Day filled King Hall as the Naval Postgraduate School recognized more than two dozen students and five faculty members for outstanding achievements at the Winter Qu... Read More

Golf Course Annex Gets High-Speed Boost
Feb 17, 2009
For such a cool, sunny day, not a single set of golf clubs gleamed on the greens at the Monterey Pines Golf Course. True, there may have been golfers aplenty at the clubhouse that day, but all were pr... Read More

Deputy DOS Returns from Afghanistan, Earns MSM
Feb 9, 2009
With a host of his peers and colleagues in attendance, Cmdr. Bob Chambers, Deputy Dean of Students at the Naval Postgraduate School, was presented with a Meritorious Service Medal on the Quarterdeck o... 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

Panetta Awarded Bronze Star for Afghanistan Intel Mission
Dec 12, 2008
Fellow officers in full dress uniform, family and friends ringed the room in rapt attention as Naval Reserve Lt. James Panetta was awarded the Bronze Star Medal by Naval Postgraduate School President ... Read More

Distinguished Professor Agrawal Elected AIAA Fellow
Mar 16, 2008
Sometimes it does take a rocket scientist to be elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Naval Postgraduate School Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and ... Read More