Month: April 2020
Sasol has completed its second installment of a $75,000 pledge to the McNeese First Choice Campaign. Local industry partners and contractors are investing in McNeese State University and the future of Southwest Louisiana through the First Choice Campaign that provides necessary resources to sustain growth in high demand academic areas.
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The Royer family has donated $15,000 to the McNeese State University Foundation to establish the Royer Family Scholarship for a music education major.
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Two students in the W.A. and Dorothy Hanna Department of Performing Arts at McNeese State University have been accepted into the Aria International Summer Music Academy in Massachusetts at Mount Holyoke College. Merritt Jones and Riley Maggio, both junior music performance majors, were selected through a competitive audition process. During this intensive and in-depth program, Jones…
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McNeese State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences faculty, staff and students are helping to combat student food insecurity through the on-campus food pantry. The food pantry was started in 2019 as a class project in professor of agricultural sciences and dean of the college Chip LeMieux’s Current Topics in Animal Science class. “In this class,…
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McNeese alumnus Brian Johnson and his wife, Kitty, are changing lives through their wildlife conservation work in east Africa. A native of Lake Charles, Brian graduated with bachelor’s degree in criminal justice in 1989. While at McNeese, he participated in the ROTC program and received a U.S. Army commission. As he rose to the rank…
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The coronavirus pandemic has caused a disruption to daily life, but educators like Kierra Malveaux, a 2018 McNeese State University education graduate, are finding ways to help their students succeed at home. Malveaux is a fourth-grade teacher at Oak Park Elementary. While she may not see her students in person each day, she communicates with…
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The Louisiana Small Business Development Center at McNeese State University will be hosting a free webinar titled “Explore Options for Your Business to Survive COVID-19” from 2-4 p.m. Thursday, April 16. This course is intended to help small business owners find out more about available funding opportunities, including SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans and the…
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April is National Autism Month and for over 10 years the McNeese State University Autism Program has been changing the lives of children on the autism spectrum. MAP revolves around the on-campus clinic staffed by six licensed board-certified behavior analysts (BCBAs), doctoral-level faculty and 18 graduate student interns. “Our program not only provides a training…
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Most McNeese State University staff and many student employees are working remotely, but not everything can go virtual during the COVID-19 pandemic. Several students in McNeese’s College of Agricultural Sciences have stayed on to provide crucial care for the more than 1,000 acres of agricultural land and three farming operations. Senior animal science students Brandon…
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Sydnie Sutherland, a 2018 McNeese State University nursing graduate, is changing lives by answering the call to serve patients fighting the coronavirus at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, N.Y. “I knew I wanted to help others in the best way possible and I’m so grateful I can do this as a nurse,” says Sutherland. For the…
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