Nearly 14 years to the date of the sudden loss of Citadel graduate Joseph Dawson Shine, two of his classmates, Tip Hargrove and Jim Lockridge, came back to The Citadel to share accounts of their time with him at the college.

What would you give to serve your country? Would you turn down an opportunity to play a professional sport? Though soccer has always been a large part 1st Lt. Anthony Uriarte’s life, he declined multiple professional soccer contracts to follow his calling of being an officer in the United States Army.

“Service to others is what makes this country great,” said U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder, 169th Fighter Wing public affairs superintendent. His 31 years of service is a testament to his commitment to serve his country.

The Zucker Family School of Education at The Citadel continues to be a driving force behind the development of the Lowcountry’s educational workforce, steadily producing principled leaders for K-12 classrooms.

The Citadel chapter of The National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is celebrating its 37th anniversary in 2017 by inducting 83 new members.

Veteran NASA astronaut, Col. Randy Bresnik, USMC (Ret.), is one of The Citadel’s most visible principled leaders in the history of the college. The 1989 alumnus will serve as flight engineer July 28 on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Austin Gray has always been inquisitive. As the youngest of five boys, Gray was always asking – or pestering – his older brothers with questions. Now as an adult, that same curiosity has led him to pursue a PhD in environmental health science at UNCG.