News at Lamar

EDsmart.org ranks Lamar University’s online computer science bachelor degree program 17th out of 34 schools in the nation.

Lamar University is hosting the Sixth Annual Transition Fair on Feb. 27 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Setzer Student Center.

Joana Hyatt receives prestigious NAEA award.

Lamar University alumnus Carlos Caballero credits his successful engineering career to the scholarships he received at LU, including the McNair Scholars Program and the Alicia Christine Bonura Memorial Regents Scholarship in Engineering.

The Showcase of Southeast Texas, Lamar University’s marching band, is marching in a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.

Lamar University welcomed Junior Achievement of the Golden Triangle for the Ninth Annual Engineering Job Shadow Lunch sponsored by Motiva Enterprises.

The Lamar University Department of Theatre and Dance will present their first performance of the Spring semester, Bakkhai by Eurpides. Bakkhai will run February 13-16 in the Studio Theatre.

Lamar Cardinal Esports placed third in the Fortnite duos season for central conference in the Collegiate Starleague.

Lamar University’s Mary Morgan Moore Department of Music Brass Choir will be performing on tour in San Antonio, from Feb. 13-15, as part of the 2020 Texas Music Educators Association Convention.

Lamar University welcomes reporter, correspondent and news anchor John Dickerson as the 13th speaker in the Judge Joe J. Fisher Distinguished Lecture Series on Mon. March 9 from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the University Theatre.

Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Museum is looking for oil derricks around Southeast Texas and is asking for the public to help in a fun way.

Lamar University College of Engineering and Lumberton ISD have partnered to send a science experiment on a mission to the International Space Station.

Two nursing faculty members in the JoAnne Gay Dishman School of Nursing, Drs. Stacey Knight and Cynthia Pipkins, have been awarded the Teaching Innovative Award from the Texas Organization of Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Education (TOBGNE).

Philip Cole, professor and chair of the department of physics at Lamar University, is the General Chair of the 14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators (AccApp).

The Texas Academy of Leadership in the Humanities at Lamar University will host an Open House on Sat., Feb. 22 at the Mary and John Gray Library.

Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Museum is hosting the Second Annual Printing Day on Feb. 29 beginning with a blast - the gusher re-enactment at 1 p.m.

Jeff Forret, Lamar University history professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow, will introduce his new book, “Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts” at a lecture and book signing.