Month: November 2020

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Engineering Professor Receives Grant to Fund New Studio

November 9, 2020

McNeese State University associate professor of civil engineering Dr. Ahmed Abdel-Mohti has received a $140,000 grant from the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Foundation to establish a PCI Studio at McNeese. McNeese is one of only two institutions to receive the nationally competitive grant in this cycle. The grant is the result of two years of…

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McNeese Professor to Share Father’s Heroic Story at Kristallnacht Commemoration

November 5, 2020

McNeese State University professor of biological science Dr. Mark L. Wygoda will be the guest speaker for a virtual Kristallnacht Commemoration hosted by the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9. Wygoda’s 35-minute presentation will recount the experiences of his father, Hermann Wygoda, a German-born Polish Jew who fought…

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McNeese Makes U.S. News & World Report List for 10th Straight Year

November 2, 2020

For the 10th consecutive year, the U.S. News and World Report has ranked McNeese State University as one of the top universities in the South in its 2021 Best Colleges list. The university also ranks among the Top 50 Public Schools in the southern region as well—one of four Louisiana institutions to make the Top…

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