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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…
Read MoreHeather 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…
Read MoreMcNeese 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…
Read MoreMcNeese 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,…
Read MoreMcNeese talent is represented in the Black Heritage Gallery exhibit currently on display through Sept. 24 in the Historic City Hall Arts & Cultural Center. Two alumni are among the nine artists selected for the “Pandemic Portfolio” exhibit. They are Jeanine Blaney and Lindsey Johnson. The exhibit features artwork created while the artists were working…
Read MoreFood technology student Oanh Vuong will present two posters on protein powders as sustainable food sources at The Finalist of Graduate Research Competition at the Institute of Food Technologists SHIFT20 Virtual Meeting this month. This annual food expo provides thousands of consumers, food technology experts and businesses a forum to showcase new products and research…
Read MoreKevin Romero, a senior electrical engineering student, is working on a printed circuit board for a helmet display system that will be in the next generation of space suits as part of his internship with NASA. This display system will project an image inside the helmet so astronauts can more easily receive and navigate data…
Read MoreMcNeese State University and Visit Lake Charles, the Southwest Louisiana Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, have signed an agreement that will bring large national competitive youth baseball tournaments to the Lake Area for the next four years. “This is a tremendous opportunity to showcase the McNeese campus, our baseball facilities and Southwest Louisiana to thousands of…
Read MoreHigh school band students from around the country learned leadership skills and conducting techniques from the experts thanks to a two-day virtual music leadership camp hosted by McNeese Bands. The camp’s goal was to help high school drum majors and student band leaders develop the skills to learn how to run a football game and…
Read MoreFormer standout Cowgirl softball pitcher and current McNeese State University graduate student Emily Vincent is continuing her passion for the sport while also completing internship hours this semester as the women’s softball pitching coach for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Vincent, a 2016 health and human performance graduate, is currently working on her master’s…
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