| 2013 Summer Leaders Experience | 6/5/2013 | Five hundred and four rising high school students were welcomed to West Point June 1 with their own version of Reception Day. It was the start of the weeklong Summer Leaders Experience and a unique insider’s look at cadet culture and leadership experience. Read more... |  |
| Plebes no more | 5/25/2013 | It’s a tradition for the graduating class to recognize the advancement of the 4th class cadets from plebes to yearlings. Short, rain-soaked ceremonies were conducted by the 36 companies around Central Area this morning. Read more... |  |
| Class of 2013 enters profession of arms | 5/25/2013 | More than one thousand hats flew into the air at Michie Stadium May 25 and jubilation followed for the U.S. Military Academy’s Class of 2013. For West Point’s 215th graduating class and the Army’s newest group of second lieutenants, this was, as Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel described it in his commencement address, “an important and historic occasion.” Read more... | |
| USMA salutes the Long Gray Line | 5/23/2013 | The Alumni and Distinguished Graduate Award Review were just two of many events bringing hundreds of cadets, alumni and guests together during Graduation Week at the U.S. Military Academy. Read more... |  |
| Glee Club Graduation Concert | 5/22/2013 | The West Point Glee Club presented a Graduation Concert at Eisenhower Hall Theatre May 21 in support of Graduation Week activities and as a farewell to its eight senior members. Read more... |  |
| Cadet Drew Long earns 2013 Mason Award | 5/22/2013 | Class of 2013 Cadet Drew Long is among 13 future Medical Corps officers who will be attending medical school following graduation from the U.S. Military Academy on May 25. Read more... |  |
| Bone marrow match found in Corps of Cadets | 5/16/2013 | Class of 2013 Cadet John Maxwell found out last year that he was a bone marrow match for a young female suffering from leukemia. Read more... |  |
| FAEP promotes international fellowship | 5/16/2013 | The U.S. Military Academy recently welcomed 24 international cadets from 12 countries who participated in the Foreign Academy Exchange Program. Read more... |  |
| West Point 5th grader wins MLB essay contest | 5/16/2013 | West Point 5th grader Luke Lunday earned the grand prize for writing one of the winning essays in the 2013 “Breaking Barriers: In Sports, In Life” contest. Read more... | |
| Class of 2013 draws inspiration from annual tour | 5/15/2013 | The words of “The Corps” may have been running through the minds of the yearlings who participated in the 8th annual West Point Inspiration to Serve Cemetery Tour May 2. Read more... |  |
| 2013 Projects Day | 5/8/2013 | Impossible as it is to see Projects Day in its entirety, the Pointer View offers a project-by-project, building-to-building narrative of one reporter's eight-hour exploration of the academy's intellectual output from the Corps of Cadets. Read more... |  |
| Class of 2013 reflects on USMA experience in writing | 4/19/2013 | The 7th annual General of the Armies John J. Pershing Reflective Essay Awards ceremony for Class of 2013 cadets taking the MX400 Officership Capstone course offered through the Simon Center for the Professional Military Ethic took place April 12 at the West Point Club. Read more... |  |
| 2013 Days of Remembrance | 4/19/2013 | Dr. Jack Terry, M.D., was the guest speaker at the annual Holocaust National Days of Remembrance April 10 at the West Point Club. Read more... |  |
| USMA places second in 2013 Cyber Defense Exercise | 4/19/2013 | Twenty-eight cadets spent the better part of a week entrenched inside the Cyber Lab in Thayer Hall, competing against rival service academies in the National Security Agency-sponsored exercise April 16-18. Read more... |  |
| USMA’s cyber warriors survive first day of Cyber Defense Exercise | 4/17/2013 | Twenty-eight Class of 2013 cadets gathered inside the Cyber Lab at Thayer Hall April 16 for the start of the 13th annual Cyber Defense Exercise. Read more... | |
| West Point Paintball delivers a "Classic" | 4/17/2013 | The West Point Paintball Club hosted its 26th Spring Combat Classic April 13-14 at Lake Frederick, with roughly 800 participants waging war in “The Invasion of Sicily” campaign. Read more... |  |
| West Point teen to perform at Young Artist Concert | 4/17/2013 | Mirana Stoker, 18, from O’Neill High School, was the first West Point community member to win the West Point Band’s Young Artist Solo Competition in its 20-year history. Read more... |  |
| Army fencers win two national titles | 4/11/2013 | West Point fencers accumulated 21 medals and two U.S. Association of Collegiate Fencing Clubs titles April 5-7 at the National Collegiate Club Championships at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich. Read more... |  |
| Engineering majors welcomed into new Army family | 4/11/2013 | The Society of American Military Engineers and the Army Engineer Association honored 127 engineering majors from the Class of 2013 into the Army Engineer Regiment March 28 at Eisenhower Hall. Read more... | |
| Cadets explore medical profession at Walter Reed | 4/11/2013 | As members of the international pre-medical fraternity, Phi Delta Epsilon, more than 30 cadets visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center recently to learn more about what it means to be a physician in the Armed Forces. Read more... |  |
| Mauldin, Nasir named 2013 Truman Scholars | 4/11/2013 | Class of 2014 Cadets Erin Mauldin and Ahmad Nasir were among 62 students from 54 colleges and universities across the nation to be named 2013 Truman Scholars. Read more... |  |
| NSBE awards USMA Department of Mathematical Sciences | 4/10/2013 | Eight members of the Department of Mathematical Sciences from the U.S. Military Academy were honored at the 39th annual Convention of the National Society of Black Engineers March 30 in Indianapolis, Ind. Read more... |  |
| Mastering Lean Six Sigma | 4/10/2013 | Col. Donna Korycinski, professor in the U.S. Military Department of Systems Engineering has become the first at West Point to earn the Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification, and only the 90th in the U.S. Army. Read more... |  |
| ChemE cadets take first in regionals | 4/8/2013 | The West Point Chemical Engineering Club took first place in the Mid-Atlantic Region AIChE Conference Chemical Engineering Jeopardy Competition April 5 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. Read more... |  |
| Skeet and Trap Club competes | 4/8/2013 | The West Point Skeet and Trap Team recently attended the 2013 ACUI Clay Target Championships in San Antonio, Texas, where they competed against teams from 60 colleges and universities. Read more... |  |
| Army Swimming and Diving hosts Team RWB | 4/8/2013 | The Army Black Knights Swim and Dive team took to the pool for a very special post-season event on April 6. Read more... |  |
| Toni Morrison visits West Point | 3/29/2013 | Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and only the eighth female author among its recipients, honored the U.S. Military Academy and the Class of 2016 as its guest lecturer March 22. Read more... |  |
| West Point Aviation Club Part II | 3/29/2013 | Some cadets rappel from aircraft, fewer jump from them but only a handful in the Corps of Cadets get to actually fly. The West Point Aviation Club’s Ground School and Flying Team help cadets do just that. Read more... |  |
| Recyclemania Week 6 Results | 3/29/2013 | With two weeks remaining in the national Recyclemania tournament, the Corps of Cadets continue to improve its standings among the hundreds of competing schools. Read more... | |
| Renowned nuclear physicist lectures on nuclear weapons | 3/28/2013 | Dr. Richard Garwin, a nuclear physicist and one of the designers of the first hydrogen bomb tested in 1952, spoke at a colloquium to senior cadets in the NE400 class Feb. 21. Read more... |  |