{"id":1516,"date":"2025-03-31T12:23:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/?page_id=1516"},"modified":"2025-03-31T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:23:04","slug":"february-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/february-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/179\/In-The-Spotlight-Graphic-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/2025\/01\/february-new-faculty-spotlight\/\">February new faculty spotlight<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">In our February spotlight, we introduce you to Colleen Quaas, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, and Bryan MacGavin, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/179\/math-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/2025\/01\/mathematics-research\/\">Mathematics research<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Several students majoring in mathematics, including Manning Hitt, Garner Page, Stratton Knuth, Wei Shan Lu, Aiden Raab and Matthew Varney, solved four open\u00a0problems from journals as part of their introductory MATH 121 in the fall of 2023.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/179\/business-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/2025\/01\/business-professor-speaks-on-recent-publication\/\">Business professor speaks on recent publication<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">BB&amp;T Distinguished Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship Russell Sobel spoke about his new book, The Essential Joseph Schumpeter, at an event in the BB&amp;T Moral Foundations of Capitalism Speaker Series.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/179\/Engineer-of-the-Year-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/2025\/01\/uscg-engineer-of-the-year\/\">USCG Engineer of the Year<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Lt. 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Robert Pickering, who serves as Chief Officer of Ethical Leadership, gave a presentation to Charleston County School District Aspiring Principals.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/179\/FB_England-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/2025\/01\/bulldog-accepted-to-dental-school\/\">Bulldog accepted to dental school<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Biology major Cole Christopher England, \u201924, a native of Laurens, S.C., and former member of the football team, has his sights on a career in dentistry.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/179\/Bosch-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/2025\/01\/notes-from-engineering-13\/\">Notes from Engineering<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">In November, a group of engineering faculty and Dean Andrew Williams traveled to the Bosch Mobility plant in Charleston for a site visit to discuss the possibility of partnering for student and faculty collaboration.<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1516","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - 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