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Allison Hunt, a McNeese State University management student from Lake Charles, is in Washington, D.C., this fall interning for Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy. “I was a part of the Governor’s Fellowship Program in Louisiana Government over the summer and when the program ended I knew I wasn’t ready to leave the political sphere,” she says.…
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IBERIABANK, a division of First Horizon Bank, has donated $100,000 to the McNeese Foundation with a $10,000 commitment to the Bridge the Gap fund. The fund supports students in need and other initiatives that enhance diversity and inclusion at McNeese.
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McKenna Fields and Haley Harless, McNeese State University radiologic sciences majors from Lake Charles, are the 2022 recipients of the Daniel A. Herpin, M.D., Memorial Scholarship. The award is presented annually to senior radiologic sciences students. “Dr. Daniel Herpin was a radiologist at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital and took great pride in training the next…
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Jeffery Schweitzer has donated $5,000 to the McNeese Foundation to support the Cowboy basketball team. Jeffery played for McNeese from 1971-1975 and received a degree in environmental science.
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As part of the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (Global UGRAD), senior Virgilio Roi Adaptar has spent the past semester at McNeese State University exploring how to use chemistry and microbiology to fight food insecurity as visiting food technology student. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and administered by World Learning, Global UGRAD was founded…
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Kiara Mitchell completed her bachelor’s degree in health and human performance from McNeese State University in May 2020 and will earn a second degree this fall when she graduates with her master’s degree. “I studied sports medicine as an undergraduate student and I am now in the exercise science graduate program,” she says. Mitchell was…
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Kip Hanks, a 1997 biological sciences graduate of McNeese State University, planned to attend professional school after graduation, but his McNeese degree led him to a career involving human tissue for transplant and research. “I entered McNeese with the idea that I would go on to dentistry school,” says Hanks. “One of my professors had…
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The McNeese Cowboy Club has donated $66,124 to the McNeese Foundation for several athletic programs. The funds will provide support for women’s soccer, softball and tennis, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s track and the McNeese rodeo team. Since its inception in 1974, the Cowboy Club has donated over $3 million in support of…
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Phillips 66 has committed $30,000 to the McNeese First Choice Campaign. The campaign is an initiative with a goal of raising $1 million per year to provide necessary resources to sustain growth in high demand academic areas.
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Chad Lapointe, Erath, a senior health and human performance major at McNeese State University, knew the medical field would provide him with a meaningful career but he also wanted to know his patients on a personal level. He found the best of both worlds in the pre-physical therapy program in the H.C. Drew School of…
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