The state’s Civil Engineer of the Year, as named by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) South Carolina Section, is Simon T. Ghanat, Ph.D., P.E., a professor in The Citadel School of Engineering.

For four weeks, seven cadets and students from The Citadel shared the learning adventure of their lifetimes. It included traveling on the Amazon River by boat, working with indigenous people in the jungle and observing the complex ecosystem supporting the diverse animals and reptiles in the Peruvian rainforest.

Shaniqua Crews, who is working on her master’s degree in school psychology, began conducting research last fall on sleep and its effect on emotional well-being.

by David Wratislaw, ’19 In an internship at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) that took place during the fall and spring semesters, Cadet Charlie Coste, a rising senior,

Dr. Gregory Mazzaro, a professor of electrical engineering at The Citadel, is spending the summer working on an ongoing project with the Army Research Lab in Adelphi, Maryland. He and his teammates continue to develop a unique, “nonlinear” radar designed to find hidden objects.

Lawrence Sullivan, a geography professor, an instructor with the Department of History at The Citadel, was appointed to the South Carolina Commission on Consumer Affairs.

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree at The Citadel is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.

As word traveled about the retirement of Mark Bebensee, Ph.D., letters and notes were sent to the college. They came from Bebensee’s former students, their parents, friends and colleagues.

(Note: Carleton Bailiff has returned from Peru. You can find his final thoughts about his trip at the end of this article.) Peru is the fourth largest rain forest country