Welcome to Elements, the inaugural edition of The Citadel School of Science and Mathematics newsletter. We hope that it will inform you about, and interest you in, the activities of the School of Science and Mathematics as we strive to further the School's mission to: Prepare students to become well-informed, effective and principled leaders in a world that is increasingly needful of scientific modes of thought.

"Science is a procedure for testing and rejecting hypotheses,
not a compendium of certain knowledge.
... theories that cannot be tested are in principle not science."
Stephen Jay Gould

"The only ethical principle which has made science
possible is that the truth shall be told all the time."
Charles Percy Snow