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LAKE CHARLES – McNeese’s homecoming football game against Northwestern State has been canceled due to the NSU football program cancelling the remainder of its season following the sudden passing of team member Ronnie Caldwell. “It’s unfortunate that we announce the cancellation of our upcoming homecoming football game against Northwestern State this Saturday,” said Heath Schroyer, McNeese…
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Dennis Stine, CEO of Stine Lumber Co., will serve as the grand marshal for the 2023 McNeese State University homecoming parade scheduled to roll down Ryan Street at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26. Stine graduated from McNeese in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science degree and in 1992 with a Master of Business Administration…
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Two members of the McNeese State University faculty and staff, Dr. Srinivasan ‘Vasan’ Ambatipati and Curtis Rogers, are serving on the University of Louisiana System’s Management and Leadership Institute. The Management & Leadership Institute for the Universities of Louisiana is a program that develops potential executive level professionals from within the universities of the system.…
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McNeese State University juniors, Jeremy Richard Ikediashi and Yvonne Ariri, caught an inside look at the code, programming and inner workings of Google and Meta this summer. Ikediashi, a computer science major in McNeese’s College of Science, Engineering and Mathematics from Nigeria, worked remotely for Google as a Student Training in Engineering Program (STEP) intern.…
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McNeese State University’s rodeo team traveled to the Panola College Rodeo in Tatum, Texas for the first rodeo of the season. Several students on the men’s team placed in their respective competitions. In saddle bronc riding, Caleb Miller, of Welsh, placed first, Shea Fournier, of Raceland, placed second and Issac Richard, of Eunice, placed third.…
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For the 13th consecutive year, the U.S. News and World Report has ranked McNeese State University as one of the top universities in the South in its 2022-2023 Best Colleges list. The university also ranks among the Top Public Schools (#42) in the southern region as well—one of six Louisiana institutions to make the Top…
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The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) awarded a 2022-2023 Superior Merit Award designation to the McNeese State University’s SHRM student chapter for providing superior growth and development opportunities to its student members. The SHRM Student Chapter Merit Award program encourages the development of more effective student chapters that provide outstanding activities and projects. …
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Tellurian recently made a $1 million pledge in support of the LNG Center of Excellence at McNeese State University. A portion of these funds will be used to provide students with scholarships for the new McNeese LNG Business Certificate. Tellurian presented the donation during the annual McNeese LNG Day on Oct. 3, where a panel…
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The McNeese State University Alumni Association will present its 2023 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year awards during halftime ceremonies at the McNeese vs. Nicholls football game on Saturday, Sept. 30. The three McNeese alumni who have been named recipients this year are: retired Col. Carlene A.S. Blanding, a combat veteran who served in the United…
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Kaylee Cormier is a third-generation member of McNeese State University’s women’s rodeo team–both her mother and grandmother were on the McNeese rodeo team. Kaylee’s grandmother, Charlene Carson, is a 1968 McNeese nursing graduate, and her mother, Kasey Cormier, graduated in 1996 with a degree in business administration. Kaylee attended the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association’s College…
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