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| 5/21/2013 | McNeese Schedules Tax Seminar |
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A seminar on sales and withholding tax will be offered from 9-11 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, in Room 122 of the Burton Business Center at McNeese State University. |
| 5/21/2013 | McNeese Sponsors Small Business Seminar |
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A free seminar titled "Starting and Financing a Small Business” will be offered from 5-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, in Room 121 of the Burton Business Center at McNeese State University. |
| 5/18/2013 | McNeese MFA Students to Read Saturday |
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Four students in the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at McNeese State University will graduate at 10 a.m. this Saturday, May 18, at Burton Coliseum and will celebrate with a free reading from their works at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Ralph Squires Recital Hall. |
| 5/18/2013 | McNeese Spring Graduation is Set |
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More than 825 students - the largest graduating class in McNeese State University history - are expected to receive degrees at the university's spring commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 18, at Burton Coliseum. The second largest class was 776 students back in fall 2008. |
| 5/17/2013 | McNeese Hosts International Film |
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"Alamar,” a 2009 award-winning Mexican film, will be presented free at 7 p.m. Friday, May 17, in Room 128 of Hardtner Hall at McNeese State University by Calcasieu Cinema International. |
| 5/14/2013 | Logo and Slogan Contest for McNeese Radio Station KBYS |
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McNeese State University is launching a radio station in 2014 and the public is invited to submit ideas for a logo and slogan. |
| 5/13/2013 | McNeese Class of 1963 Honored at Spring Graduation |
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The Class of 1963 will be honored during the annual celebration of the McNeese State University Alumni Association's Golden Scholar Society on Friday and Saturday, May 17-18. |
| 5/9/2013 | McNeese 2013 Summer and Fall Registration Underway |
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Registration for McNeese State University's summer sessions is currently underway through June 3, while registration for the fall semester is underway through Aug. 19. |
| 5/7/2013 | Nutcracker Returning to Lake Area |
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"The Nutcracker” is returning to the Lake Area in December to celebrate its 50th anniversary and to raise funds for the McNeese State University Department of Performing Arts. |
| 5/1/2013 | McNeese Parking Garage Opening |
| | The ribbon cutting for the new McNeese State University student parking garage was held Wednesday, May 1. All students with a current McNeese parking permit - commuter and resident - can park in the garage. Students voted during the spring 2011 semester to pay a $75 fee to build the three-story, 865-vehicle parking garage. |
| 4/25/2013 | McNeese Spring Senior Exhibition |
| | The McNeese Department of Visual Arts will host the Spring Senior Exhibition April 25–May 16 in the Abercrombie Gallery of the Shearman Fine Arts Center at McNeese State University. |
| 4/17/2013 | McNeese Engineering Students Win Surveying Competition |
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McNeese State University civil engineering students won first place in the surveying competition at the recent 2013 Deep South Regional American Society of Civil Engineering Student Conference at Southern University in Baton Rouge. |
| 4/17/2013 | McNeese MFA Graduate Wins 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
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McNeese State University alumnus Adam Johnson has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his novel, "The Orphan Master's Son,” set in North Korea. |
| 4/17/2013 | Miaoulis Visit to McNeese |
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Although humans make the majority of the objects we interact with and use during our day-to-day lives, the current school science curriculum focuses very little on how our designed world is made. Dr. Ioannis Miaoulis, president and director of the Boston Museum of Science, is an advocate of including engineering in the formal science curriculum and has worked with educators and legislators on the state and national level to design a new national standard for the K-12 science curriculum. |
| 4/10/2013 | McNeese 2013 Pinnacle Award Winners |
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Six McNeese State University faculty members are recipients of the 2013 Pinnacle Excellence Awards established by Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. – the parent company of L'Auberge Casino Resort Lake Charles - to recognize outstanding faculty achievement in each of the McNeese colleges—business, education, engineering and engineering technology, liberal arts, nursing and science. |
| 4/10/2013 | McNeese Professor Publishes First Book |
| | Dr. Thomas R. Laehn, assistant professor of government at McNeese State University, has just released his first book titled, "Pliny's Defense of Empire,” which was simultaneously printed in both the United States and Great Britain by English publisher Routledge. |
| 3/19/2013 | McNeese Foundation Announces New Officers |
| | The McNeese State University Foundation Board of Directors has elected new officers for 2013. Judy Fuller will serve as president, Patricia Prebula, vice president and president-elect, James E. Taussig, treasurer, and Willie Mount, secretary. |
