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UL System providing budget cut answers in weekly seminars

Melanie Cowan, Managing Editor
April 30, 2015

Sandra Woodley and the University of Louisiana System has started to put out weekly webinars directly...

Use of electronic cigarettes added to tobacco ban policy

Melanie Cowan, Managing Editor
April 2, 2015

Nicholls State University banned the use of electronic cigarettes in February. Jacuzzo believes that...

Students gain real world experience through service lerning progects

Melanie Cowan, Managing Editor
March 27, 2015

Seniors enrolled in Marketing 485 partake in service learning projects each semester set to help them...

89th Louisiana Academy of Sciences hosted at Nicholls

Melanie Cowan, Managing Editor
March 19, 2015

The Louisiana Academy of Sciences met last weekend at Nicholls State University and seven students were...

The Nicholls State University fountain before its renovation period begins. The fountain is located by Lafourche Bayou across from Elkins Hall at the front of campus.

Nicholls raises enough money to fix and maintain fountain

Melanie Cowan, Managing Editor
March 12, 2015

The Nicholls community raised the funds necessary to fix the Nicholls Fountain with renovations to begin...

Culinary school to be finished in August, but not on time

Melanie Cowan, Managing Editor
February 26, 2015

The new culinary building has not been finished on time, but the University is doing everything in its...

University focused on students’ needs amid potential cuts

Melanie Cowan, Managing Editor
February 5, 2015

Nicholls State University is preparing to give the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools its ten-year...

President Murphy optimistic ahead of budget cuts

Melanie Cowan, Managing Editor
January 22, 2015

Nicholls State University President Bruce Murphy is remaining positive regarding possible budget cuts....

Recreation Center to provide rental bikes for students

Recreation Center to provide rental bikes for students

Melanie Cowan, Managing Editor
November 20, 2014

Nicholls has just brought the first bike share system in Louisiana to the Harold J. Callais Recreation...

Residents of Thibodaux to fight new Wal-Mart on LA 1

Residents of Thibodaux to fight new Wal-Mart on LA 1

Melanie Cowan, Managing Editor
November 13, 2014

Residents of Thibodaux came out in full force to the “Walk for Our Neighborhoods” march on Percy...

Construction improving campus

Melanie Cowan, Managing Editor
October 2, 2014

According to Vice President of facilities, Michael Davis, the university is improving the campus with...

Renovations to Ellender Hall set to begin this year

Melanie Cowan, Managing Editor
September 4, 2014

Renovations to Ellender Hall will begin in December. Michael Davis, vice president of Facilities, and...

Nicholls loses three administrators to retirement

Melanie Cowan, Managing Editor
August 21, 2014

Nicholls State University has bid farewell to three faculty members this summer after many years of service. Allayne...

Culinary Institute students attend Masters tournament

Melanie Cowan
May 1, 2014

Students from the Chef John Folse Culinary Institute were selected to attend the Masters golf tournament...

Student Government Association President-Elect Adam Lefort joins current SGA President Melissa Cloutet at a meeting in Scholars Hall regarding a controversial proposal from Parking Services that many students were against.

The New Voice

Melanie Cowan
April 17, 2014

President-elect Adam Lefort will be sworn in on May 7 after the announcement was made naming him the...

Cycling team earns recognition with overall win against LSU

Melanie Cowan
April 9, 2014

After a win over Louisiana State University at an event last month, the Nicholls cycling team has a...

Adam Lefort (left) and Anthony Naquin (right) are this year’s Student Government Association presidential candadates. To vote, click the “Vote Now” link on the  nicholls.edu homepage starting at noon on Sunday, April 6. The polls will close on Wednesday, April 9 at 11

Who’s Next?

Melanie Cowan
April 2, 2014

The Student Government Association will hold its presidential elections starting this upcoming Sunday,...

Nicholls programs benefit from four scholarship donations

Melanie Cowan
March 26, 2014

Nicholls has received multiple donations equal to approximately $465,000 to create student scholarships,...

Nicholls Can! 2014 begins with high expectations

Melanie Cowan
March 20, 2014

Nicholls Can! is well underway and hopes are high to expand this event to be bigger and better than...

Construction continues on the new Chef John Folse Culinary Institute building.

Emergency projects outweigh new ones in capital outlay

Melanie Cowan
March 20, 2014

Plans for renovations are in the works at Nicholls with the help of generous donations and state funds. According...

Members of the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon celebrate as they welcome their new pledges at Bid Day last fall. Normally, the pledge process lasts several months before initiation. With the new changes, pledges will initiate within 96 hours of accepting a bid. SAE’s national Supreme Council made the change on March 9 in an attempt to prevent hazing.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon bans pledging system nationwide

Melanie Cowan
March 13, 2014

Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity's Supreme Council, their highest governing body, decided to eliminate...

Nicholls recognizes the dangers of eating disorders

Melanie Cowan
February 27, 2014

Eating Disorder Awareness Week has arrived, and Nicholls is doing its part by encouraging students to...

Runners take off for the 5K run as part of last year’s 5th annual Swamp Stomp festival.

On Your Mark…

Melanie Cowan
February 20, 2014

Plans are in the works to update this year's second annual 5K Can Run and the one-mile White Boot Waddle...

Olabisi Akingbola sings a song and recites a poem at RELATE on Oct. 3, 2013.

RELATE hosts its first open mic night of season tonight

Melanie Cowan
February 13, 2014

Relate open mic will hold its first event of the 2014 season with Relate to Discovery tonight at 7 p.m....

Faculty starts new policies in light of SACS warning

Melanie Cowan
February 13, 2014

After receiving a warning from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) this past summer,...

Scholorship named after Alumni Affairs Director Emetirus

Scholorship named after Alumni Affairs Director Emetirus

Melanie Cowan
February 6, 2014

The Deborah Raziano Endowed Alumni Scholarship has been created in commemoration of Nicholls' Director...

“Grumpy Aussie” meets controversy with latest video

Melanie Cowan
November 21, 2013

When he first created a video for his MACO 321 class, Sam McBeath had no idea it would spark controversy...

Bite of the Arts 2012

Bite of the Arts

Melanie Cowan and Melanie Cowan
November 14, 2013

The Chef John Folse Culinary Institute will be exploring German cuisine tonight at the 17th Annual Bite...

Part of The University

Melanie Cowan
November 7, 2013

The microbiology lab in room 208 of Gouaux Hall became the Marilyn B. Kilgen Laboratory of Biological...

Paranormal Activities

Melanie Cowan
October 31, 2013

Halloween is here, and it just wouldn't be the same without a few Ellender Hall ghost stories to tell. In...

Items being bidded on at the W.I.S.E silent auction held in the Cotillion Ballroom.

W.I.S.E. raises over $4,500 for new scholarship fund

Melanie Cowan
October 29, 2013

The student organization Women Involved in Self-Empowerment held a gala open to students and the community...

Fathom media expands to new publications and location

Melanie Cowan
October 10, 2013

Fathom Media, most famous for their magazine What Now, is currently expanding their publications as...

Nicholls Gay Straight Alliance prepares for LGBT Month

Melanie Cowan
October 10, 2013

October is lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered history month and the Gay-Straight Alliance has...

Cast members go over their scenes at play rehersal in the theatre.

Charlie Brown hits the Danos Theater with a twist

Melanie Cowan
October 3, 2013

The Nicholls Players are performing a satire of the Peanuts gang directed by Anna Broussard entitled,...

Cera Voatwright, senior nursing major from Bayou Gauche, and partner Matthew Jewell, a Nicholls graduate from Luling, get into the southern spirit while dancing at the First Louisiana Swamp Stomp Pre-Festival in the Student Union

Swamp Stomp offers free Cajun-Zydeco dance classes

Melanie Cowan
September 26, 2013

Nicholls is now offering Cajun-Zydeco dance classes free of charge to students that wish to prepare...

Tanner Thibodeaux, Brittany Chiasson, John Berger, and Lauren Lombardo after the crowning of the 2012 homecoming queen and king.

All hail the queen and king: a year as Nicholls royalty

Melanie Cowan
September 26, 2013

With the anticipation of a new homecoming king and queen, Nicholls' reigning royalty reflects on their...

Homecoming calls for Colonel fans to “save the world”

Melanie Cowan
September 19, 2013

This year's homecoming festivities are right around the corner, getting the Colonels pumped up for the...

Al Danos with family and Senator Norby Chabert announces that funds have been raised to start renovations at the sixth annual Monster Piano Concert, Tues, Sept 17.

Donors reach goal to start renovations for Talbot Hall

Melanie Cowan
September 19, 2013

A donation of $102,000 helped Nicholls meet their goal of $1.5 million to renovate Talbot hall and the...

Students learn potential dangers of texting and driving

Melanie Cowan
September 12, 2013

The Student Programming Association sponsored a "No Texting and Driving Simulator" in front of the Student...

Mormon church offers new classes

Melanie Cowan
September 12, 2013

Robert Coker is instructing post-secondary level religion courses at Nicholls associated with the Church...

Biology senior receives grant to fund research project

Melanie Cowan
September 5, 2013

Shiena Marie Normand, a biology pre-med senior from Niceville, Fla., received the Louisiana Sea Grant...

Nicholls Online offers affordable and convenient education

Melanie Cowan and Melanie Cowan
August 29, 2013

Nicholls Online started in January of 2013 with the goal of giving students that have previously dropped...

Herbalife nutrition program proves successful for alumnus

Melanie Cowan
August 29, 2013

Nicholls alumnus inspires students to lose weight through his weight loss journey with the help of the...

A temporary cooling system at Peltier Hall put in place because of a failed air conditioning system in June.

Facilities rents cooling tower to cover for failed unit

Melanie Cowan
August 22, 2013

One of the two air conditioning cooling towers located behind Peltier Hall failed at the beginning of...

Mass communication junior uses his funny bone

Mass communication junior uses his funny bone

Melanie Cowan
August 22, 2013

Many students know Richard Dubus as the guy who likes to crack jokes in class, but in recent years,...

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