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There’s still time to apply for admission and register for the 2020 regular fall semester at McNeese State University. Registration is currently underway through Aug. 7. The fall class schedule is available online at www.mcneese.edu/schedule and all students should see an adviser, if required, to get their alternate PINS prior to registration. Classes begin…
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The Cowboy baseball program has earned its fifth consecutive American Baseball Coaches Association’s Team Academic Excellence Award. The Cowboys are one of only 12 Division 1 teams in the country – and the only Southland Conference team – to receive the ABCA academic achievement recognition for five straight years for college programs whose student-athletes post…
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William and Kay Doré have madea $1 million commitment to McNeese State University’s First Choice Campaign. Donations to the McNeese First Choice Campaign from individual donors and business and industry partners support the university by providing much needed capital for immediate academic needs and priorities. “Providing high quality educational programs requires resources,” McNeese President Dr.…
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McNeese State University is bringing the Louisiana STEM (LaSTEM) Pathways Pre-Engineering Certification program to local high schools as the result of a partnership with Louisiana State University and the University of Louisiana Monroe. The LaSTEM Pathways Certification program provides high school students across Louisiana the chance to enroll in up to eight STEM courses. These…
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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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