Language and Literature Archives - ¹ū¶³APP News /news/category/college-of-liberal-arts/language-and-literature/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:44:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 ¹ū¶³APP to Host 2023 Fletcher Lecture Series Featuring Award-Winning Novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin /news/2023/09/19/nicholls-to-host-2023-fletcher-lecture-series-featuring-award-winning-novelist-maurice-carlos-ruffin/ Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:40:13 +0000 /news/?p=9267 THIBODAUX, La. ā€“ Award-winning novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin will be the guest lecturer for the 2023 Fletcher Lecture Series set to take place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 12, in ¹ū¶³APPā€™s Gouaux Hall Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. The 2023 recipients of the Linda Stanga Award for […]

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]]> ¹ū¶³APP Studentsā€™ Fairy Tales Published in Contes Merveilleux /news/2023/06/15/nicholls-students-fairy-tales-published-in-contes-merveilleux/ Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:32:30 +0000 /news/?p=9177 THIBODAUX, La. ā€“ In fall of 2022, ¹ū¶³APP students Katherine Dean, creative writing major, Amber Robichaux, psychology major, and Annelle Fletcher, business major, wrote fairy tales in Dr. Robin White’s French 201 course. The three students entered their fairy tales in a Louisiana fairy tales contest sponsored by Centenary College, Les Editions Tintamarre, and the […]

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]]> ¹ū¶³APP Named Top School for Online Bachelorā€™s in English /news/2022/07/27/nicholls-named-top-school-for-online-bachelors-in-english/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:58:05 +0000 /news/?p=8809 THIBODAUX, La. — ¹ū¶³APPā€™s online English bachelorā€™s was ranked in the top 25 by University Headquarters.Ā  ¹ū¶³APP ranked No. 25 out of the 50 schools selected and second in Louisiana. To create the rankings, UniversityHQ considers cost of tuition, retention rate, graduation rate, graduating salary and diplomas awarded.Ā  The ¹ū¶³APP online English program […]

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]]> ¹ū¶³APP Art Professor Wins International Film Award for Animated Short on Womenā€™s Rights /news/2022/04/15/nicholls-art-professor-wins-international-film-award-for-animated-short-on-womens-rights/ Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000 /news/?p=8709 THIBODAUX, La. — ¹ū¶³APP Assistant Professor of Art Marjan Khatibi won an ANMTN for an animation she created as a masterā€™s student at the University of California in Santa Cruz.  Khatibi received the Best Student Film Award from the ANMTN! The International Animation Film Festival earlier this year for her film titled, ā€œA […]

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]]> ¹ū¶³APP Art Professor to Give Presentation on Virtual Reality, Empowerment at Las Vegas Conference /news/2022/04/13/nicholls-art-professor-to-give-presentation-on-virtual-reality-empowerment-at-las-vegas-conference/ Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:17:38 +0000 /news/?p=8712 THIBODAUX, La. — What is the potential of using virtual reality for personal empowerment? That is a question that ¹ū¶³APP Assistant Professor of Art Marjan Khatibi will explore as a panelist at the 2022 Broadcast Education Association Conference this month.  The BEA Conference will be held April 23-26 in Las Vegas. The panel […]

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]]> James Beard Nominated Author, Filmmaker to Visit ¹ū¶³APP Campus /news/2022/02/16/james-beard-nominated-author-filmmaker-to-visit-nicholls-campus-2/ Wed, 16 Feb 2022 22:30:00 +0000 /news/?p=8665 THIBODAUX, La. — New Orleans historian and filmmaker Justin Nystrom will offer a unique look into the culture of the Big Easy with a film screening and book reading at ¹ū¶³APP on Thursday, March 10. Nystrom is the Peter J. Cangelosi/BEGGARS Distinguished Professor of History, director of the Center for the Study of […]

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]]> Water Institute, CPRA Award ¹ū¶³APP Nearly $500,000 for Coastal Research /news/2021/07/26/water-institute-cpra-award-nicholls-nearly-500000-for-coastal-research/ Mon, 26 Jul 2021 17:30:00 +0000 /news/?p=8527 THIBODAUX, La. — ¹ū¶³APP will receive $495,368 from the Restore Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana to help coastal scientists better understand coastal ridges. Researchers will use the grant money to categorize the ecological attributes of the ridges to help coastal scientists design future ridge restoration and management projects. The Coastal Protection and […]

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]]> ¹ū¶³APP Online English Degree Named Top 15 /news/2021/04/14/nicholls-online-english-degree-named-top-15/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 17:00:00 +0000 /news/?p=8414 THIBODAUX, La. — College Cliffs named ¹ū¶³APPā€™s online English degree as one of the 15 best undergraduate English and writing programs in the country.  The website released the list of 15 programs representing the top programs from the most prestigious schools. The list includes only two schools from Louisiana: ¹ū¶³APP and LSU.  ā€œOur […]

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]]> ¹ū¶³APP Online English Program Ranked by Study.com /news/2021/03/25/nicholls-online-english-program-ranked-by-study-com/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:00:00 +0000 /news/?p=8397 THIBODAUX, La. — Study.com has ranked ¹ū¶³APP No. 8 in the country for its online English degree. ¹ū¶³APP was the only school in Louisiana to make the list.  ā€œOur classes are primarily taught by our full-time faculty, who are experienced online teachers and accomplished in their fields of specialty,ā€ said Dr. Robert Allen […]

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]]> ¹ū¶³APP, Federal Government to Develop Coastal Research Database /news/2021/02/22/nicholls-federal-government-to-develop-coastal-research-database/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:00:00 +0000 /news/?p=8361 THIBODAUX, La. — ¹ū¶³APP is partnering with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to develop a database of Bayou Region and Gulf Coast research.  The 4-year, $400,000 project titled ā€œDigital Curation: Streamlining Access to Research Across Gulf of Mexico Communities,ā€ will create a database and repository of resources for scholars, agency officials […]

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