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Student Research Through NPS’ Center for Infrastructure Defense Takes Center Stage During Brief to Leadership
Apr 15, 2011
Protecting the critical infrastructures of the United States – the electric power grid, oil and gas, transportation, communications, food and agriculture, and water – is a key focus for the Department... Read More

NPS’ SEED Center Hosts International Data Farming Workshop
Apr 8, 2011
Naval Postgraduate School’s Simulation, Experiments and Efficient Design (SEED) Center for Data Farming hosted the International Data Farming Workshop 22 (IDFW) at the Monterey Hyatt Regency Hotel, Ma... Read More

NPS Alumnus Marshall Carter Brings Ethics and Leadership to Guiding the New York Stock Exchange
Feb 15, 2011
From the Purple Heart to the New York Stock Exchange, NPS alumnus Marshall Carter has had quite a career. He has worked for some of the most powerful companies in banking, and now serves as Chairman o... 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

NPS OR Team Optimizes Defense Against Narco Semi-Subs
Dec 4, 2010
A Naval Postgraduate School faculty-student team has developed a mathematical model that determines the best combination and deployment of search platforms to detect and classify self-propelled semi-s... Read More

NPS, AFIT Launch First Distance Learning Master’s in Cost Estimation
Nov 17, 2010
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), in a joint effort with the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), recently launched what is to be the first jointly developed, jointly instructed, part-time, Di... 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

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

Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Addresses NPS Community
Aug 12, 2010
One year after his induction into the NPS Hall of Fame, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), spoke to NPS students, staff and faculty on August 10 as part of the Secretar... Read More

NPS Team Boosts Basic Combat Trainee Performance by Sleeping “Smart”
May 20, 2010
The Army calls on its Soldiers to “be all you can be.” In a major step to bring this slogan to life, a Naval Postgraduate School team has found that shifting the sleep schedule of new recruits to bet... Read More

OR Dept. Holds High-Level Workshop for Chilean Navy
Apr 14, 2010
At the request of Chief of Naval Research Admiral Nevin P. Carr, the Naval Postgraduate School Operations Research (OR) Department conducted the first OR Workshop for the Chilean Navy, in Valparaiso. ... Read More

Army’s “Soldier Scholar” Rallies Students with Passion for Values-Based Training
Oct 19, 2009
Maj. Gen. Gregg Martin, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center at Fort Leonard Wood, rallied Naval Postgraduate School students with a resounding passion for full spectrum trainin... Read More

NPS Launches Online Human Systems Integration Program
Aug 26, 2009
The four courses in the one-year, all-online interdisciplinary program are designed to educate and train Human Systems Integration practitioners in the state-of-the-art policies and processes needed t... 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

Eagle Passes OR Chair Baton to Dell
May 13, 2009
Capping more than eight years as Chairman of the Naval Postgraduate School Department of Operations Research (OR), Prof. Jim Eagle has passed the leadership baton to Prof. Rob Dell. Dell’s appointmen... 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

Systems Engineering Students Confront Maritime IED Threat
Jan 9, 2009
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) students from the Systems Engineering Analysis (SEA) program presented, on Dec. 11, 2008, the findings of their capstone project, which addressed the threat of maritime... Read More

Military Faculty Member Gains New Insight From Tour With Gen. Petraeus
Dec 9, 2008
Lt. Col. Lee Ewing, an assistant professor from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Operations Research (OR) Department, recently returned from a pivotal nine-month deployment working for Gen. David P... Read More

ONR Director Rallies Students to "Sustain the Edge"
Dec 4, 2008
Office of Naval Research (ONR) Executive Director Dr. Walter Jones rallied students with his Secretary of the Navy Guest Lecture "Sustaining the Edge: Serving the Next Generation Warfighter Now," at t... Read More