News at Lamar University

The Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum has received a gift of $315,000 from the Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation, managed by Hancock Whitney. The funds will support a transformational renovation project centered around preserving the museum’s longevity and the collections held in each building.

Ashok Adhikari, a recent graduate of the Management Information Systems program in the College of Business’ School of Accounting and Information Systems, completed an internship with Santander Consumer USA in Dallas, Texas. Adhikar also was offered a full-time position as Internal Control Analyst.

Lamar University announces its new business analytics concentration for the Bachelor of Business Administration – Management Information Systems.

For the first time since the start of the pandemic, Lamar University has accepted five international semester exchange students from South Korea, Germany and France.

Lamar University recently inducted more than 100 new members of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Among those inductees are four LU alums and one faculty member.

On Thursday, Jan. 20, Lamar University will celebrate the life and legacy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a special commemoration from the LU NAACP student chapter and Pietzsch-MacArthur Elementary.

LU alumna Bryoni Prentice '08 dishes on her journey to sweet success in the culinary arts and how she ended up as a contestant on the Food Network's "Christmas Cookie Challenge."

The Young Men’s Business League has donated funds totaling $15,000 for the construction and ribbon cutting of a Cardinal NEST at Caldwood Elementary. Curtis Elementary is the final BISD campus to build a Cardinal NEST, sponsored by LU alum Susan Conn McCurry and Roger McCurry, who also sponsored the Cardinal NEST at Regina-Howell.

In the summer of 2019, Alexis Miller's dream of becoming a Cardinal was quickly halted when she realized that she didn’t have enough financial aid to cover her first semester at LU. However, the hopeful Beaumont native received a call from the LU Scholarships and Financial Aid department that changed everything.

KVLU end of year fundraising

In continued support of student development and quality education, AT&T has donated to Lamar University to bolster the institutions efforts in targeting mathematical learning loss in Southeast Texas.

One Cardinal fan favorite fundraiser is making a comeback at Lamar University just in time for the holidays. For the third year, LU Athletics’ basketball teams and local non-profit organization Some Other Place have teamed up to host the annual Teddy Bear Toss fundraiser.

The Rotary Club of Beaumont has made it possible for Lamar University to expand its program to create innovative learning labs for Beaumont ISD. In spring of 2021, the Rotary Club of Beaumont awarded Lamar University $15,000 to establish a new Cardinal NEST (Navigating Excellence Success and Triumph) at Martin Elementary.

Art and Design students present Against the Grain senior thesis exhibition

The LU Office of Financial Services is getting into the holiday spirit with a “Final 12 Days Before Winter Break” campaign. For 12 days leading up to Dec. 20, the department will participate in daily holiday themed activities.

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It’s always a great time to be a Cardinal and the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings gives yet another reason for future Cards to flock to Lamar University. According to the 2022 evaluation, Lamar University is the No.9 best public university in the state of Texas.

On Tuesday, Nov. 30, Lamar University and ExxonMobil officially opened the latest Cardinal NEST (Navigating Excellence Success and Triumph) at Amelia Elementary School.

The LU Office of University Advancement and the family of former LU professor Richard Price, Ph.D., will host a reception on Saturday, Dec. 4 in honor of his 90th birthday. Richard L. “Doc” Price, I, Ph.D., was an associate professor of mathematics at Lamar University since August of 1970. He served as the College of Engineering’s director of Minority Recruitment and Retention and, for more than 30 years, he devoted himself to recruiting, educating and mentoring black students in the College of Engineering.

Thousands of colored lights will adorn trees and illuminate campus buildings around Jimmy Simmons Boulevard, Jim Gilligan Way and the Rolfe Christopher Drive entrance to campus. Families are invited to take a slow drive through campus to enjoy the lights and other holiday themed decorations for the entire month of December through the new year.

ExxonMobil US Recruiting presented the Lamar University College of Engineering with a grant check to acknowledge the university’s role in providing a constant source of quality engineering hires for their company. ExxonMobil has consistently hired graduates from LU for all the local sites and beyond.

The Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program was established in 1994 by longtime Lamar University supporter Regina Rogers as a tribute to her late mother, Julie Rogers, a breast cancer survivor. Rogers has teamed up with the LU JoAnne Gay Dishman School of Nursing and Sandra Cesario, program director and tenured professor in the College of Nursing at Texas Woman’s University, to bring ovarian cancer awareness to the Southeast Texas region.

The Texas Legislature has approved $44.9 million in capital construction assistance to support the renovation of the Mary and John Gray Library at Lamar University. This funding, approved in mid-October as part Senate Bill 52, will support the first significant renovation of the library since it was dedicated in 1976.

The Moot is a competition that involves two student advocates engaging in simulated legal arguments before a hypothetical appellate court reviewing a fictitious case. Three LU teams competed, but based on their preliminary rounds results, the team of Maissa Salibi and Gillean Vandiver was ranked No.11 in the tournament. Novice team Katie Rice and Kaylee Goodspeed was ranked No.15 in the tournament.

The Lamar University College of Engineering hosted representatives from Emerson Solutions and Scallon Controls for the dedication of the Emerson Advanced Technology Center on Nov. 4. The event included remarks from industry leaders, a round table discussion between industry and LU faculty, and culminated in the ribbon cutting for the new space located in the Center for Industrialization, Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship on LU’s campus.

The Office of Undergraduate Research is set to host the 8th annual Humanities, Arts, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Education and Business Conference on Saturday, Nov. 20 at Landes Auditorium in the Galloway Business building.

The Office of Undergraduate Research at Lamar University thrives on giving undergraduates of all majors opportunities for research and scholarship. In the summer of 2021, sophomore and pre-med biology major Zaid Mohammed was afforded the opportunity to intern at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine in Dallas.

Lamar University honored seven staff members for their outstanding performance, leadership and contributions within the institution at the 2021 Distinguished Staff Awards Luncheon on Monday, Nov. 15. 

Department of Theatre and Dance presents Fall and Recovery Faculty Dance Concert