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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…

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…

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…

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…

Heather 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…

McNeese 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…

Food 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…

Kevin 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…

High 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…

Former 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…