News at Lamar

The Lamar University College of Fine Arts and Communication announced the recipients of their Innovation and Excellence Awards during a faculty and staff presentation at the college’s convocation on Tues., Aug. 20.

Assistant Professor of Art History Julia C. Fischer recently published “Art in Rome: Antiquity to the Present,” with Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

This summer for the first time in Lamar University’s history, the College of Business offered a real estate course.

Lamar University is hosting the Southeast Texas College Fair Sep. 12, featuring more than 40 colleges and universities.

As part of an Undergraduate Research Award from the Lamar University Office of Undergraduate Research, LU student Daniel Quispe presented a poster at Undergraduate Research Day in Austin.

For freshmen majoring in engineering, college classes started a week early at Lamar University.

P.J. Couch, an associate professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences at Lamar University, has been named one of the top mathematics educators in the country.

The faculty and staff in the Department of Art will present their work in an exhibition at the Dishman Art Museum on Aug. 19-Sep. 13.

LU President responds to hurtful remarks posted to social media by LU student.

Lamar University honors the life of Distinguished Alumnus Joseph “Joe” Tortorice, Jr., who died Sat., Aug. 10, 2019 after at 19-month battle against cancer. 

Lamar University and Lamar State College Orange have formalized an articulation agreement to better serve the needs of students interested in pursuing bachelor’s degrees.

Stuart A. Wright, Lamar University professor and chair of the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Criminal Justice is a collaborator on a book, “Religious Demise: How Religions Die, Decline and Dissolve,” which will soon be published by Bloomsbury Academic Publishers.

Cardinal Adventures offers a lineup of destinations every year that are designed to be diverse, educational and fun!

Going back to school? Don’t worry. You still have time to enjoy great events at Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Museum.

After a four-year submission and review process, Drs. Tracy Benson, a professor of chemical engineering at Lamar University, and Russell Chianelli, a chemistry professor at the University of Texas-El Paso, have been awarded a patent for a catalyst material to make medium chain alcohols using Fischer – Tropsch reactions.

Lamar University has been selected as one of BestColleges.com’s Best Online Doctorate in Educational Leadership programs for 2019.

Joanne Gay Dishman School of Nursing faculty and students were recently published in “Nursing Education Perspectives,” the premier nurse education journal for scholarship in nursing education and a peer-reviewed, bimonthly journal of the National League of Nursing that provides evidence for best practices in nursing.