When learning how to treat patients, nursing cadets and students at The Citadel now have the ability to become proficient at inserting needles, checking vital signs, and even responding to heart attack or stroke symptoms before they begin to help treat live human patients.

Can penguins and people get along? That’s one of the questions Citadel professor Dr. Paul Nolan is trying to answer.

A research study released by The Citadel in collaboration with the U.S. Army Public Health Center and the American Heart Association is the first to show that the low fitness of U.S. Army recruits from 10 Southern states poses a threat to military readiness and national security.

The Army’s problem of finding physically fit recruits at a time of rising obesity in the United States is especially acute in the South.

Amy Joseph, Swain Department Head of Nursing at The Citadel, talks about how important leadership is in the nursing field.

Talk of deep cuts in federal funding for basic and applied research this past spring had many in the scientific community alarmed.

Dr. Shankar Banik, Mathematics and Computer Science at The Citadel, was one of our recent REU recipients for “Ensuring Fairly Timed Network Communication.”

Undergraduate researchers are vigorously engaged in discovery and learning at The Citadel throughout the year.

The Citadel -“The Military College of South Carolina” has established a new nursing program after receiving a seven-figure donation.

Preparing graduates to serve their communities is part of The Citadel’s mission, and the Swain Department of Nursing is helping to achieve that goal in a direct and meaningful way.