Month: February 2023

Recent McNeese State University graduates Demi Boudreaux, Katelyn Bihm and Makenna Sanders are celebrating being chosen New Teachers of the Year in Calcasieu and Allen Parishes. The State of Louisiana recognizes amazing educators who demonstrate excellence in their first year in the classroom with the New Teacher of the Year award. “I love that I…

The 2023 season of Banners at McNeese State University kicks off with 16 events spread out over several weeks from March 4 to April 29. This year’s entertainment offers a spectacular lineup showcasing concerts, puppets, the McLeod Lecture Series, the 33rd Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibit, documentaries, lectures, a dance party, an outside…

McNeese State University is honoring Black History Month by spotlighting students, faculty and alumni. Three McNeese State University students, Cadenley Francois, a nursing major from Gonaïves, Haiti, Chima Owunna, a computer engineering student from Anambra, Nigeria, and Isaiah Johnson, a health and human performance major from Opelousas, are Reginald F. Lewis Scholars through the University…

McNeese State University’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing presents the 2023 Frank Granger Visiting Poet’s Reading by poet Diamond Forde. The free reading and book signing will be at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, in Stokes Auditorium in Hardtner Hall. Forde’s debut collection, “Mother Body,” won the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. She…