Month: July 2020
McNeese State University senior food technology student Oanh Vuong presented two posters on protein powders as sustainable food sources at the Graduate Research Competition at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) SHIFT20 Virtual Meeting this month. Her first poster, “Effects of Dark Rye, Cricket and Pea Powders on the Properties of 3D-Printed Novel Mulberry Canjeero,” reflected her research…
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McNeese State University student Jessica Rathjen, an engineering major from Westlake, has had the chance to see what civil engineering looks like in the real world thanks to an internship with the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury. Rathjen originally started off as a pre-medicine major at McNeese, then she transferred into education. She found that wasn’t…
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The Petrochem Athletic Association has pledged $110,000 over three years to the Develop the Diamond Campaign for the McNeese State University softball program. Supporters of McNeese softball have launched the campaign that will make numerous improvements to the softball facility. “We received a very generous donation from Mr. Joe Miller Sr. that really kicked off…
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Jada Robinson, a 2008 elementary education graduate of McNeese State University, is bringing a new enrichment center, Bright Minds STEAM Studio, to the Humble, Texas, community for preschool students. Science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics activities are used as a basis to prepare these young students with the motor, physical, emotional and social skills they…
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Danielle Fruge Vail, a 2010 agricultural sciences graduate and a 2012 Master of Science graduate in environmental and chemical sciences, has been selected as the 2020 Louisiana Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers Outstanding Young Farm Woman. The award – presented annually by the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation – recognizes womenfor outstanding achievement and leadership…
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Lauren LeBato, a 2014 political science graduate and a 2017 Master of Arts in Teaching graduate, has been awarded a national 2020 James Madison Fellowship. Only 49 fellowships were awarded by the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation in Alexandria, Va. The Foundation is named after the fourth U.S. president and “Father of the Constitution and…
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Senior Alanna Arvie has earned individual All-Academic honors from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). Alanna has a 3.47 GPA in biology with a concentration in pre-medicine. She is the 2019 SLC Indoor Champion in the weight throw. And for the 19th consecutive year, the McNeese track and field program…
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Heather Ryan Kelley, Professor of Art, will have work featured in two upcoming exhibitions. Her selected work, an accordion book, titled “In the Name of Annah the Allmaziful,” will be on display through December in the “Opera Verbis, Works from Words” exhibition in the Gates Reading Room Gallery in the Denver Public Library Central Branch…
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McNeese State University senior chemical engineering major Samuel Hacker, of Lake Charles, is receiving vital hands-on experience through an internship with CITGO in Lake Charles. At CITGO, Hacker works in process data, including updating the quarterly reports for units by providing data such as unit outlet and inlet temperatures and the weight percentages of the…
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McNeese State University senior agricultural sciences student Mackenize Martinez, from Zwolle, is spending her summer serving as a communications intern with the Native American Agriculture Fund (NAAF). Martinez previously served as an intern with the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture. During that time, she received a fellowship with the NAAF before applying for,…
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