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It’s not every day that you check your email inbox and find an unread message from a U.S. senator. In early October, Karen Chauvin, director

Culinary junior and Alexandria, Louisiana, native Crystal Lachney admits she doesn’t exactly know where “down the bayou” is, but she does know bayou skills like

Dr. Chester Weimer (BS ’75) 33 years in practice | Urology | Thibodaux Urology Specialists “I originally went to Nicholls to study math, then changed

Dr. Christopher Paris (BS ’00) 3 years in practice | Interventional Cardiology | Cardiovascular Institute of the South (CIS), Luling “It’s an unbelievable jump from

Dr. Sheila Pitre (BS ’87) 21 years in practice | Pediatrics | The Children’s Clinic of Thibodaux “I grew up in a farming family, and

Dr. Ryan Matherne (BS ’02) 3 years in practice | Dermatology, Dermatopathology | Matherne Dermatology, Lutcher, Cut Off and Metairie “From day one, I thought

Dr. Ernest Hansen II (BS ’87) 21 years in practice | Emergency Medicine | Ochsner Medical Center, Slidell “My freshman calculus professor told the class

Dr. Mark Hebert (BS ’88) 17 years in practice | General Surgery | Thibodaux Surgical Specialists “The Nicholls pre-med program’s smaller classes and one-on-one instruction

Dr. John Heaton (BS ’81) 23 years in practice | Anesthsiology, Patient Safety and Quality | Children’s Hospital, New Orleans “Recently, I had the opportunity

Dr. Joel Comeaux (DIP ’56) 49 years in practice | Obstetrics and Gynecology | Houma OB-GYN Clinic “Without Nicholls, I would not have had the

Eight Nicholls-trained doctors share their most challenging cases   Treating a man with leprosy Dr. Ryan Matherne  Taking an emergency case out of my field Dr.

Computer science graduate Joel Jambon (BS ’89) finds second career as a piano man at Pat O’Brien’s The unmistakable melody of “Brown Eyed Girl” drifts

From playing across the seven seas to teaching at Nicholls, Joshua Hollenbeck has had a globe-trotting musical career that’s taken him from Tobago to Thibodaux.

Story Update: Nicholls graduate Kerry St. Pé will retire this summer after leading the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program, housed at Nicholls, for 16 years. He was recently

Dr. Ahmad Alexander (BS ’06) knew that his own childhood had inspired his audiology career path. But little did he know that his decision would

After more than a decade of planning and fundraising, Executive Director Christy Naquin (BS ’95) and other Colonels help bring the Bayou Country Children’s Museum to life. Mid-afternoon on

Right outside the elevator doors, on the third floor of Betsy Cheramie Ayo Hall, Rebecca Lyons steps into a small lobby lined with composite photos

While his mom awaited a heart transplant, Tyler Duplantis found relief on the Nicholls baseball diamond April 7, 2013. Nothing was going right. The Nicholls

The number of highly recruited, overachieving high school seniors who make Nicholls their university of choice might surprise you. Each fall, the admissions office brings