The West Point Academic Enrichment Program funds the Academy’s 13 departments, supporting teaching, research, and outreach. These endowments enhance guest lectures, seminars, conferences, class trips, and research, while providing cutting-edge technology. They also give leaders the flexibility to address curricular needs and adapt to evolving political, scientific, and technological challenges. West Point’s Academic Enrichment Program … read more

The Academy Scholars Program (ASP) provides funding for cadet AIADs (Academic Individual Advanced Development) which include domestic internships and cultural immersion opportunities. The ASP offers cadets transformative educational experiences, combining classroom learning with real-world applications. Through cultural immersion programs abroad, cadets develop language proficiency, cultural awareness, and leadership skills by tackling global challenges. Domestic internships … read more

The Pre-Medical Scholarship program prepares USMA graduates to serve as Army physicians in support of soldiers, military families, and wounded warriors. The program supports approximately 200 cadets each year who show interest in and the aptitude to pursue a medical degree. Cadets participate in the annual West Point Medicine and Life Science Forum, as well … read more

The Cyber & Engineering Academic Center (CEAC) and Mathematics & Systems Engineering Center (MSEC) will create a modern academic hub that will foster collaboration across disciplines that simply cannot happen in the current 1960s-style office buildings/classroom spaces. This means open, collaborative spaces where cadets and faculty from many majors can collide, interact, and see each … read more

The Center for Leader Development in STEM (CLDSTEM) is dedicated to building an academic pipeline to educate and inspire new STEM talent for West Point, the Army, and the Nation. The Center offers a comprehensive program of STEM education and career path development for youth and scholars, seeking to build an overall stronger STEM pipeline … read more

The West Point Press serves in a publishing capacity to highlight and showcase both literary and scholarly works authored by West Point cadets and faculty. The Press focuses on four main lines of effort: a literary magazine, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, e-books (via existing Rowan platform), and print book publications. read more

The West Point Werx Innovation Hub is an initiative aimed at creating collaboration and strategic partnerships to better prepare cadets to lead on the evolving modern battlefield. These dynamic strategies fostered by the Werx and performed by cadets and faculty are instrumental in creating leaders of character.  They also represent the intellectual capital generated by … read more

Civil-Military Operations (CMO) aim to build and manage relationships between military forces, government agencies, NGOs, and civilians to support U.S. military objectives. The Center for the Study of Civil-Military Operations (CSCMO) at West Point prepares cadets for CMO roles by offering classroom integration, research opportunities, symposia, and service-learning. CSCMO promotes CMO education through four pillars: … read more

The Technical Scholars program provides information and opportunities for approximately 85 cadets per graduating class who express interest in any of the six technical scholarship opportunities: the Goldwater (an undergraduate scholarship), Hertz Foundation, National Science Foundation, and the Churchill Scholarships; additionally, the Lincoln and Draper Laboratory Fellowships. With necessary funding, the program will support the … read more

The Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) was established in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, with the mission of arming current and future leaders with the intellectual tools needed to defeat and deter terrorist threats. This internationally renowned center connects academic experts with military leaders and other government agencies to facilitate research, education, and … read more

Housed within the Department of History, and taking seeded beginnings from the former Cartographic Center for Excellence, the Digital History Center (DHC) at West Point will be a 21st-century public-facing digital makerspace that not only preserves—but also makes interactive—a critical corpus of primary source materials and cutting-edge publications, instilling “wisdom through history” for the next … read more

The Earth Science Field Study Program will provide experiential learning that enables cadets to better understand some of the abstract scientific concepts presented in the classroom, achieving USMA Academic Program Goals. The value of such “hands-on” learning is exponentially greater than the learning achieved only via classroom lecture, and field courses can capitalize on it. … read more

As a pre-eminent institution for language, culture, and regional studies, USMA’s Department of English and World Languages continues to bring language and culture to Cadets through meaningful engagements and experiences in the language of study. These engagements include not only our more traditional means of immersion, such as semesters abroad, but really open the aperture … read more

The Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies (CHGS) is an academic center aimed at educating the country’s current and future leaders on how past genocides have occurred and what can be done to prevent them in the future. Through a range of innovative offerings, travel, and collaborative research, CHGS has broadened the cadet curriculum, significantly … read more

The new West Point Humanities Center will serve as a hub for humanities scholarship and research programs, creative arts, performances, and public engagement, fostering interdisciplinary intellectual development and innovation. As the only military academy humanities center, the West Point Humanities Center will be a unique and vital nexus of the humanities, engaged citizenship, and service … read more

The Lieber Institute for Law & Land Warfare, established in 2016 under the West Point Center for the Rule of Law, is a global leader in Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) scholarship and dialogue. It fosters understanding of the evolving relationship between law and warfare through cutting-edge research, publications, and collaborations with organizations like Harvard … read more

West Point’s Model UN Team ranks as one of the top North American college teams. By participating on the team, cadets challenge themselves and one another to clearly and compellingly discuss complex topics and further their understanding of pressing national and international issues. Furthermore, cadets act as Academy ambassadors, helping to educate their civilian peers … read more

The Center for Molecular Science will provide cadets with state-of-the-art instrumentation, summer research internships, scientific conference travel, peer-review publications, guest lectures, and research opportunities with faculty and post-doctoral fellows in the fields of bioengineering, nanomaterials, and clinical studies. read more

The Photonics Research Center in the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering conducts cutting-edge high energy laser and photonics research and provides experiential opportunities for cadets and faculty in the study of photonics (the physical science of light waves). The results of the research will be used by the Army and the Department of Defense … read more

The Robotics Research Center (RRC) at West Point, established in 2017, focuses on educating cadets and advancing Department of Defense (DoD) research in robotics for warfighting applications. Its core competencies include robot development, multi-agent teaming, AI, machine learning, and human-machine interfaces. Cadets engage in hands-on research, supported by advanced equipment and funding, and participate in … read more

The Center supports the increasing connections to the space domain within multi-domain operations, and offers cadets exposure to unique experiences future leaders will be required to understand as the nation’s reliance on space operations continues to expand. read more

The Graduate Scholarship Program offers intensive mentorship of cadet graduate scholarship candidates by assisting them in synthesizing their experiences in the academic, military, physical, and character programs – as well as their other developmental experience as cadets – and in formulating and articulating visions for their future service. The program consists of a formal course … read more

West Point’s primary vehicle for influencing leadership development is the West Point Leadership Center, an academic center responsible for leadership development, practice, and research. The center strengthens the leadership development provided to all West Point cadets through a range of initiatives, instilling new knowledge that expands leaders’ understanding of the world and human and organizational … read more

The multidisciplinary Writing Fellows Program, under the Office of the Dean, is a rigorous, nationally-recognized effort to develop thoughtful and effective communicators in every domain—academic, technical, and military. Established in 2012, this proven, growing program supports cadets and faculty through innovative courses in writing scholarship and teaching, peer-to-peer consultations, presentations at juried conferences, AIADs, and … read more

The Dean’s Unrestricted Endowment and Fund are comprised of unrestricted gifts allowing the Dean the flexibility to direct funds to existing and emerging priorities within the Academic Program. The Dean’s Unrestricted Endowment helps bridge the crucial gap between federal funding and the true cost of a cadet’s complete 47-month experience at the Academy. read more