Holly Gardner, a graduating physics senior, was awarded the prestigious presidential scholarship from George Mason University. Gardner minored in mathematics and computational science.
Alexie Gaddis, junior psychology major, was the recipient of the College Woman of Excellence and Louisiana Women's Caucus Foundation Scholarship.
Graduating Senior-classman Alexander Fournet will be presented the Reverend Karl Rahner, SJ, Award for the Outstanding Undergraduate Student in the Department of Religious Studies for the 2010-11 school year. The Honors Convocation will take place Friday, May 13th, 2011 at 11am in Roussel Hall.
Bob Thomas, Ph.D., has been named a "Great Gentleman" by the East Jefferson General Hospital Auxiliary for his "outstanding contributions to the community through volunteerism."
Dr. David Myers served as a Keynote Speaker at the 5th International interdisciplinary conference on Philosophy of Computer Games on April 6-9 in Athens, Greece.
Alumna Frances Rios published her first book entitled, "The Glue Factor:Giving Presentations That Make Your Messages Stick."
Dr. Anthony Ladd's article "Pandora's Well: Hubris, Deregulation, Fossil Fuels, and the BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf" has been accepted for publication in American Behavioral Scientist.
After a year of hard work, The Maroon was awarded the prestigious Mark of Excellence Award for best all-around non-daily student newspaper in the region by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Dr. Fitzgerald presented a paper at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO.
Wayne Mitchell has been accepted and will be attending an REU in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at Rice University in the summer of 2011.