Student Features

I’m originally from Annapolis, Maryland, and I moved to Louisiana in 2013. I like the medical field, and I was originally a student at Northwestern State University in radiology and then switched to exercise science. In one of my Intro to Exercise Science classes, I had an assignment where I had to interview a worker…

Natural resource conservation management and agricultural sciences major Hunter Lepretre, Gueydan, served this summer as the first student intern for agronomy research with the LSU AgCenter at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station in Rayne. “Gueydan is an area well-known for its wildlife and several of my hobbies, such as hunting, take place outdoors,” says Lepretre.…

I grew up watching Steve Irwin on TV, and I kept thinking to myself, ‘That would be cool to go out and study this animal, or play with this animal,’ and so throughout life I just started easing into it. When I got to McNeese and started the natural resource conservation management program I thought,…

I was born in New Orleans, but I basically grew up in Slidell which is an hour away. Originally I came to McNeese because I was interested in becoming a dietician, and I was looking for colleges that weren’t too far away. McNeese was only three hours away, and I thought that the dietician program…