January 2022 News

Lamar University celebrated a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, Jan. 27 for the opening of the new Cardinal NEST –– Navigating Excellence, Success and Triumph –– at Regina-Howell Elementary School

In a time when access to healthcare is vital, Lamar University is proud to announce that it recently received a rural health grant to benefit more than 10,000 Sabine County residents.

On Wednesday, Jan. 26, the sounds of conversation and curiosity filled the Reaud Honors executive event space as hopeful high school aged students and their parents packed in for the largest Texas Academy Preview Day to date.

After 21 years of guiding, educating, mentoring, and providing support for students, faculty and staff at Lamar University, Brenda Nichols, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, has announced that she will retire in January 2023.

Regina Rogers, longtime supporter of LU, attorney and former regent, established the prestigious “Shine a Light” award in loving memory of her dear friend Georgie Volz, an exceptional, courageous and inspirational individual who died at the age of 52 following a long and painful battle with ovarian and breast cancer.

Lamar University will celebrate Black History Month with a series of events across the university organized and sponsored by a variety of organizations, departments and clubs.

A no brainer. That’s how Annabelle Broussard described her decision to attend Lamar University. The Beaumont native first discovered her knack for engineering after attending the LU College of Engineering’s Lamar Intro to Engineering summer program in middle school.

The Deans of Lamar University’s five academic colleges have announced a total of 1,200 students to the Fall 2021 Dean’s list.

Lamar University’s President Jaime Taylor announced a total of 768 students to the Fall 2021 President’s list.

On Thursday, Jan. 20, Lamar University celebrated the opening of the new Cardinal NEST –– Navigating Excellence, Success and Triumph –– at Fletcher Elementary School with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

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.

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

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.

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.