A week of USNA festivities accompanies the Graduation and Commissioning ceremonies for the Class of 2011 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland. This year Commissioning Week takes place from May 22-27, 2011, with Graduation and Commissioning Day scheduled for Friday, May 27. More than 1000 of America's best and brightest young men and [...]
 The U.S. Naval Academy has been ranked the most popular institution of higher education in the country by U.S. News & World Report, based on the percentage of accepted applicants who enroll at that institution. The data is from the fall 2009 entering class.      The Naval Academy was ranked higher than Brigham Young University, the [...]
The U.S. Naval Academy has a thriving community relations program, organized and implemented by the Academy's Brigade of Midshipmen. Among the programs are a Speakers Bureau, made up of a team of experts on specific topics. These experts are either members of the staff or faculty at the Naval Academy and are available to speak [...]
Congratulations to Naval Academy Midshipman 1st Class Caroline P. Barlow of Jacksonville, Fla., who has been selected as a 2011 Rhodes Scholar. Nearly 1,000 applicants from over 300 schools around the U.S. competed for one of the 32 scholarships awarded. Barlow is currently ranked third in her class academically with a 3.94 GPA. An honors [...]
A USNA research team that includes a Naval Academy professor and four midshipmen recently noted more than 70 items on the floor of the North Sea that might be part of the Bonhomme Richard, the John Paul Jones’ famous Revolutionary War ship. The USNA professor, Peter Guth, and the four midshipmen, presented their discoveriess at [...]
The ships are gone but their models remain. They can be found in their entire three-dimensional, accurately scaled splendor in the basement of the United States Naval Academy Museum. The Rogers Ship Model Collection is a museum within a museum, and a mecca for naval history buffs and model ship builders. The collection contains 108 [...]