Dudley Knox Library - Dudley Knox Library
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If the government shuts down, the Library will be closed until the furlough is lifted. Access to all our electronic resources will still be available and you can see what services are available through the GWC and TPO at this link.
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"Excellence through Knowledge"
The Navy’s first formal advanced education program, and predecessor of today’s Naval Postgraduate School, was the School of Marine Engineering at Annapolis, established by a Secretary of the Navy General Order in 1909.
The first civilian professor, Dr. Ralph Root, was hired in 1913. A mathematician and namesake of Root Hall, Prof. Root provided a first-hand account of the institution’s evolution from its origins to the first year of World War II in a paper titled, “Mathematics and Mechanics in the Postgraduate School at Annapolis,” which was presented in September 1942 and then published in the April 1943 issue of The American Mathematical Monthly.
You can read Dr. Root's published article in NPS Archive: Calhoun, here: https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/70498.
NPS Historical Highlights are brought to you by the Dudley Knox Library.
Our Affiliates
GWC: Graduate Writing Center
Mission: To develop the writing and critical thinking skills of NPS students for success in graduate school and as military and civilian leaders.
email: writingcenter@nps.edu
TPO: Thesis Processing Office
Thesis Processing reviews and collects all NPS theses, dissertations, capstone reports, MBA reports, and joint applied projects. We help our students meet the NPS format and citation requirements and ensure the paper is of graduate-level quality.