January 2020 News

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.

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.

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).

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.

Lamar University’s Student Health Center is now accredited and plans to celebrate.

Lamar University has partnered with Iron Horse Terminals, a Southeast Texas rail transportation company, to develop software to optimize the organization’s strategically located railyard.

Lamar University scholarship donor Dr. Larry Rose describes the incredible life journey that inspired his passion for education. Through his career as an innovative orthodontist, yo yo champion, race car driver, and Muhammad Ali's personal dentist, Dr. Rose looks back fondly on his time at LU.

Presented by the Mary Morgan Moore Department of Music at Lamar University. Special guests will include Jody Espina, president, founder and chief designer of JodyJazz and Chedeville products.

David Cargill in exhibition at Dishman Art Museum.

Lamar University has been awarded top ranking status for multiple degree programs by Intelligent.com.

A time-honored and anticipated Lamar University tradition, ‘A Dinner and Conversation’ will be held on the 8th floor of the Mary and John Gray Library in the University Event Center.

The latest success for the nearly two-decade long partnership between the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Lamar University (LU) is a project to develop an integrated offshore energy industry safety culture evaluation, benchmarking and improvement toolbox.

A study published in “C Journal of Carbon Research” could bring distinctive research to Lamar University.

Four Lamar University alumni have been named Distinguished Alumni for 2020.

The deans of Lamar University’s five academic colleges have announced that 1,247 students earned places on the Deans’ List for the 2019 fall semester.

Lamar University President Kenneth Evans announced that a total of 782 Lamar University students earned places on the President’s List for the 2019 fall semester.

The College of Engineering will host its annual Teacher STEM Seminar on Jan. 16 from, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. in Lamar University’s new state-of-the-art Science and Technology Building.

Department of Communication and Media announces screenwriting workshop featuring Tom Vaughan.

Nursing Schools Almanac ranks Lamar University’s JoAnne Gay Dishman School of Nursing one of the best U.S. nursing schools in its 2019 rankings published December 2019.

Jeremy C. Alltop has been named Lamar University’s Vice President of Finance and Operations/Chief Financial Officer.