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| 5/21/2013 | McNeese 75th Anniversary Logo Design Contest Winner |
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Karlee Broussard, a Lake Charles visual arts major at McNeese State University, is the winner of the McNeese 75th Anniversary Logo Design Contest. |
| 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. |
| 5/21/2013 | McNeese to Offer Online Master's Degree in Criminal Justice This Fall |
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A new master's degree in criminal justice offered by McNeese State University will be delivered completely online beginning in August. |
| 5/20/2013 | McNeese Awards Honorary Doctorate |
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Joseph T. Miller Sr., a Lake Charles businessman and civic leader, received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree during McNeese State University's spring commencement ceremony today, Saturday, May 18, at Burton Coliseum. |
| 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. |
| 5/9/2013 | 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. |
| 4/17/2013 | 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. |
