Three students in McNeese State University’s College of Business have recently been selected for internships in Houston, Texas, and in Washington, D.C.
Angelica Maria Gonzalez-Pimiento, a McNeese accounting and finance major from Colombia in South America, is currently serving as an accounting intern for the corporate office of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Washington, D.C., established in 1887. Gonzalez, who will graduate in December 2011, has already completed a human resources internship with Unilever in Bogota, Colombia, during summer 2007 and an accounting internship with McElroy, Quirk and Burch of Lake Charles during spring 2010. She is the incoming president for the McNeese student chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management.
Beth Raley, a McNeese accounting senior from Lake Charles, will serve as an intern for Hein and Associates LLP of Houston, Texas, during spring 2011. Raley was chosen from a field of approximately 60 prospective interns from universities across the country. For over 30 years, Hein & Associates LLP has provided accounting and advisory services to public and private companies in a variety of industries. Raley has completed previous accounting internships with Gragson, Cassiday and Guillory of Lake Charles as well as McElroy, Quirk and Burch.
Chet Trahan, a Jennings graduate student pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree, is serving a 10-week summer internship at The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. office in Houston, Texas. As an intern, Trahan will be working on marketing strategies focused on corporate banking for the energy industry. Trahan will graduate in December 2010.
All programs in the McNeese College of Business are internationally accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the premier accrediting agency of collegiate business schools and accounting programs worldwide.
Dr. Anil K. Kandalam, McNeese assistant professor of physics, has recently co-authored articles for two journals: "Origin of the Unusual Properties of Aun(BO2) Clusters” recently published in ChemPhysChem journal and featured under "Hot Topics in Gold” by Wiley InterScience, the publishers of ChemPhysChem journal; and "Reactivity of Neutral and Charged B13 Clusters with O2: A Theoretical Study,” recently published in the Journal of Chemical Physics.
He also made a presentation titled "Indo-U.S. Workshop on Nanotechnology: Applications and Implications” at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology in Hyderabad, India, and co-edited a conference proceedings book, "Materials Issues in a Hydrogen Economy” for the World Scientific conference in Singapore.
