May 2025

The Citadel School of Engineering celebrated major spring achievements, including faculty awards, student competition wins, and national recognition. Highlights include Baker Business Bowl victories, top honors at Academic Excellence Day, and Dr. Mark McKinney’s national appointment.

This spring, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences celebrated new books by faculty, national lectures, and honored standout professors for service and teaching excellence across diverse disciplines.

Assistant Professor Howard Huynh’s Mammalogy course gave students hands-on research experience, culminating in a coauthored scientific paper and expanded museum collection through interactive, field-based learning.

Former Cadet’s Research Revives the Memory of Forgotten Fifer Five years ago, Cadet Taylor Diggs approached Felice F. Knight, Ph.D., then an assistant professor of African American history, with an idea for a Summer Undergraduate Research… Read more: Former Cadet’s Research Revives the Memory of Forgotten Fifer

This spring, the Zucker Family School of Education hosted leadership forums, partnered on suicide prevention training, and gave cadets hands-on literacy and community-building experiences in local schools.

Three Leadership Studies faculty are analyzing interviews from Citadel affiliates to explore leadership development, alumni career impact, and definitions of principled leadership across three research papers.

Professor Emeritus Bill Trumbull led a spring break trip to Cuba, giving cadets in Econ 402 firsthand insight into socialism, complementing their classroom study of economic systems.

The Citadel welcomes two new faculty—Greg Harrison in Education and Howie Huynh in Biology—who bring rich experience, innovative teaching, and a passion for student success and research.