October 2022 News

From Honors Scholars Day and Texas Academy's Experience Day to our Cardinals getting out into the community and more, it's been an eventful week at Lamar University. Check out the week in photos: Oct. 24-30.

Speaker of the House appoints LU alumna Dr. Wendy Elmore, provost and executive vice president of Lamar State College Orange to the Industry-Based Certification Advisory Council.

When the cast and crew are applauded, the production is over and everyone goes home, a light is left on in the theatre. But for whom? According to theatre professor Alan Brincks, the “ghost light” tradition is something that is familiar to any theatre worker, but the origin of the tradition is not entirely known. 

The Lamar University Department of Art & Design is set to host a digital art exhibition featuring Christopher Troutman, associate professor of art and show curator, and several LU art students. https://www.lamar.edu/news-and-events/news/2022/07/fine-arts-students-work-featured-in-japan.html

Kim Steinhagen will be presenting a behind the scenes look at Lamar University’s public art collection on Nov. 16 at the Dishman Art Museum on the campus of Lamar University.

From "Red Shirt" day with the Dishman School of Nursing to communication and media students enjoying dinner and the symphony with the dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication and more, it's been an eventful week at Lamar University.

This week on the LU Moment, Nathan Kogut, a 20-year coaching veteran who joined Lamar University Athletics in April of 2022, talks about how he's managed to lead the women’s soccer team into the best start in program history.

Twins Keyara and Teyara Watson-Love took social media by storm in early summer just after simultaneously graduating from LU with master’s degrees in speech-language pathology –– a field with only 3% of Black women. Now, the pair are headed to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention to present research.

Lamar University alum Monica Fricke '14 was recently awarded Region 6 Counselor of the Year award.

On Oct. 17-21, Lamar University joins colleges and universities across the nation in celebrating National Transfer Student Week. This week on the LU Moment, Ryan Litchfield shares all the details of LU's week-long celebration of transfer students.

Cynthia Stinson, Ph.D., APRN, CNS, R.N.-BC, department chair and associate professor of nursing within the JoAnne Gay Dishman School of Nursing, has received the Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing award from the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence.

The Lamar University College of Business presents a screening event for Beyond Zero, a feature-length documentary film which chronicles the revolutionary journey of Interface's founder, Ray Anderson, who embarks on a mission to create a 100% sustainable enterprise. The event will include a Q&A with the film's writer and director, Nathan Havey, and Interface's Danny Airhart.

When it comes to transferring universities, there are a lot of preconceived notions that these students are able to just jump right into the classroom and successfully finish off their last two years, especially since they have already had the college experience. Ryan Litchfield, assistant director of the Office of Admissions, shares his advice to help our students transferring to LU.

The mission of this organization is to be a group that transfer students can turn to when confused or needing help or just a group of people who “understand the journey.”

It's been an eventful week at LU. Here's a look back at the week of Oct. 10-16 in photos.

Senior industrial technology major Jordan Lewis shares his journey through his fall internship with Chevron.

On Oct. 17-21, Lamar University joins colleges and universities across the nation in celebrating National Transfer Student Week. 

In this Q&A, Hispanic mentor and instructor of social work April Loya-Boggs shares her background, culture and what Hispanic Heritage Month means to her and her family.

In this Q&A, Hispanic mentor and instructor of social work Angela Clavijo shares her background, culture and what Hispanic Heritage Month means to her and her family.

Junior civil and environmental engineering major Melissa Tan’s research was recently accepted into the 14th annual GCURS at Rice University.

Nathan Kogut, a 20-year coaching veteran who joined Lamar University Athletics in April of 2022, has led the women’s soccer team into the best start in program history.

It's been an eventful week at LU. Here's a look back at the week of Oct. 3-9 in photos.

This semester the College of Business Cardinal Communities class has taken on new initiatives to better help incoming freshman be set up for success. These classes, which are requirements for incoming freshman to complete via the university’s Passport Program, are a resource that has been available to students since 2017. In 2020, the College of Business saw great success in improving retention rates by making the class mandatory to incoming business freshman. This practice has since been adopted university wide. The College of Business has continued to look for ways to improve the course and in 2022 has decided to incorporate a new program to continue to mold successful and prepared student s. One such initiative includes teaching Franklin Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective College Students.

Lamar University has seen a staggering 1,013 international students enrolled in the fall — the most in nearly a decade.

“They Will Talk About Us: The Charlton-Pollard Story” — a documentary created by Lamar University Television Productions in the College of Fine Arts and Communication — is vying for awards at several upcoming film festivals.

In this Q&A, Dr. Hector Flores, a mentor himself, explains how the LU Hispanic Mentors programs helps to enrich and support the lives of students.

On Tuesday, Sept. 27, the Lamar University Collegiate 100 chapter welcomed 13 new members with a formal induction ceremony featuring guest speaker and member of the 100 Black Men of Greater Beaumont Pastor Lee Fields, Jr., from East Mount Olive Baptist Church, Port Arthur.

There’s a new student organization piquing the interest of Cardinals across campus: The Nigerian Student Association.

In this Q&A, Luis Arevalo, junior chemical engineer with a Spanish minor, shares his background, culture and what Hispanic Heritage Month means to him and his family.

Lamar University Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dann Brown has appointed Dr. Samuel Jator as the university’s new senior associate provost for Academic Affairs. Jator comes to the university after serving as professor of mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Austin Peay State University for nearly a decade.

Four Lamar University teams participated in the University of Texas at Dallas Invitational Moot Court Tournament on Oct. 1. The teams competed virtually resulting in two students –– Kiera Figgins and Kaylee Goodspeed –– being ranked among the top speakers overall for the tournament. 

Osborne and Siegmund complete projects started in marketing class for the college's marketing department