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Published August 29, 2008
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Kofi Lomotey, the new chancellor of Southern University, Baton Rouge gave the commencement speech during the summer commencement on Friday, July 25 in the F.G. Clark Activity Center. Lomotey told the 269 graduates, “This is not an end, but a beginning,” he told the graduates. “That is why they call these ceremonies commencement exercises.”
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The J.K. Haynes Teaching Fellows Program, that seeks to address the under-representation of African-American males in the teaching profession, was announced during the fifth annual J.K. Haynes Teacher Preparation Conference in July. |
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Entergy donated $60,000 toward establishing an endowed professorship in the College of Engineering at Southern University, Baton Rouge. E. Renae Conley, president and CEO, Entergy Louisiana and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C, presented the gift to SU System President Ralph Slaughter during the Entergy Economic Development Summit Luncheon hosted by the Southern University System. |
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Southern University’s Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Unit held a change of command ceremony recently in the Cyprus Room of the Mayberry Dining Hall on the university’s campus. |
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Southern University’s Army Reserve Officers Training Corps (AROTC), the Jaguar Battalion, held its summer commissioning ceremony July 24 at the Agricultural Research and Extension Center. |
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Products and participants of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs were part of the delegation assembled to welcome a representative of the Siemens Corporation to the Southern, Baton Rouge campus. |
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Two new members of the SU System Board of Supervisors recently appointed by Gov. Bobby Jindal -- Patrick Bell of Thibodaux and Patrick Magee of Lafayette – were sworn in during a special meeting in late July.
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The Southern University, New Orleans (SUNO) Police Department held a National Night Out celebration and cook-out August 5, 2008 in Pontchartrain Park at the corner of Press Drive and Prentiss Avenue. The event was co-sponsored by the Pontilly Neighborhood Association and the Pontchartrain Park Neighborhood Association. |
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Southern University, Baton Rouge geared up for the 2008 Capital Area United Way (CAUW) Campus Campaign with a Coordinator’s Luncheon on July 23 in the Magnolia Room of the Mayberry Dining Hall on the university’s campus. |
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Incoming freshman at Southern University, Baton Rouge were invited to “Discover a Whole New World @ John B. Cade Library,” at the second annual open house held on August 14. The day-long event exposed students to several cultural performances which included a modern dance ensemble, a Capoiera (martial arts dance) demonstration, salsa dancers and a New Orleans- style brass band. Freshmen members of the marching band also performed. |
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Daniel and Patricia Douglas, Southern University graduates, recently made a donation to the Law Center’s general scholarship fund through the Beyond Petroleum (BP) Fabric of America Fund. Last year, BP unveiled the Fabric of America Fund, which allows BP America employees to request a company donation of up to $500 for worthy causes. |
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Southern University’s John B. Cade Library is one of 10 libraries participating in the first Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance Digital Collection. The collection can be viewed online at contentdm.auctr.edu. |
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The Southern University Mass Communications Department has been granted reaccreditation for an additional four years, through the 2011-2012 school year by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. |
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Ava Brewster Turner, associate professor, SU Department of Visual and Performing Arts, has announced performance dates for her new fall presentation of the play, “Trick the Devil.” |
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Southern University broke into the top tier of “America’s Best Black Colleges” in the second year of U.S. News & World Report's scoring of historically black colleges and universities. LSU was also noted in the annual listing. Southern Chancellor Kofi Lomotey said he is “extremely pleased” to move in to the top tier of black colleges after being in the second grouping last year. |
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Southern University graduate student Ashley Scott was one of the youngest delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Denver on August 25-28. Scott was chosen to be an at-large delegate for U.S. Sen. Barack Obama at a May Democratic Party gathering held in Baton Rouge. |
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Doze Y. Butler, assistant dean, family and consumer sciences, was recently selected as president of the Louisiana Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (LAFCS). |
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Michael Ralph, assistant vice president, planning and research and director Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, recently was received appointed as the inaugural president of the International Organization for Disaster and Emergency Preparedness (ODEP - http://iodep.org/). |
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Moustapha Diack, associate professor,
Department of Science/Mathematics Education and Department
of Chemistry, Southern University, Baton Rouge received
an International Award from the Multimedia Educational
Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
organization during the group's International Conference,
August 7-10, in Minnesota.
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SU's Polite Stewart Jr. is featured in the September 2008 issue of Ebony magazine. Fourteen-year-old Stewart is the youngest student to enroll at Southern University, Baton Rouge. He started his studies at Southern this summer after completing home-school and making impressive scores on the ACT and SAT exams. |
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New Southern University Chancellor
Kofi Lomotey laughs after explaining how people tell
him he barely ever smiles.“But I do have a good sense
of humor,” the tall, deep-voiced Harlem, N.Y., native
emphasizes. |
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Kofi Lomotey, chancellor of the Southern
University and A&M College at Baton Rouge, was interviewed
recently by the national magazine Diverse Issues
in Higher Education. |
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When Southern University’s Human Jukebox
struts on to the field, the striking uniforms demand
attention. Even if they couldn’t play a note — and
what a laughable thought that is — these musicians
could entertain the crowds that fill Mumford Stadium
on looks alone. |
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Southern University at New Orleans
will offer college courses for high school students
and adults this fall at East St. John High School.
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The proof was in the pennies. The
more pennies the middle schoolers’ homemade rafts
could hold before sinking, the better the design.
“ … 24 pennies … 55 pennies … 92 pennies,” ExxonMobil
mechanical engineer Joel Deal announced as he counted
pennies scooped from the rafts that sank to the bottom
of a small tub of water. |
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For the first time in five years a
Southern University volleyball player was named to
the Southwestern Athletic Conference All-SWAC team.
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Zhu Hua Ning, professor, Urban Forestry, Southern University, Baton Rouge, has been elected president of the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA), Arboricultural Research & Education Academy. |
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A Southern University, New Orleans (SUNO) employee has invented the first motorcycle safety system, and won the Louisiana Business and Technology Center Phase Zero award related to his invention. |
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Southern University, Baton Rouge professors Humberto Muñoz and Nigel Gwee, received best session papers during the Computing Technologies session at the 6th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies, held at Orlando, Florida from June 29 to July 2, 2008. |
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Television and radio talk show host Tavis Smiley will bring “The Talented Tenth HBCU Tour” to Southern University, Baton Rouge October 24. Influenced by the teachings of W.E.B. DuBois, Smiley targets college students for the future of black leadership and hopes to inspire new leaders from five of the nation's universities. |
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Nearly 300 faith and community leaders
will gather in Shreveport next month to learn best
practices and methods for community and economic development
during Southern University Ag Center's Community and
Faith Leadership Development Conference. |
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Former U.S. Surgeon General M. Joycelyn
Elders will be the keynote speaker at the Justice
Revius O. Ortique, Jr., Symposium on Law, Politics,
Civil Rights and Justice, set for Wednesday, September
24, 2008. |
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Renowned soul balladeer Jeffrey Osborne
will headline the Sixth Annual Gala on the Bluff fundraiser
for the Southern University, Baton Rouge College of
Business. It will be held Friday, October 10 at the
Sheraton Hotel and Convention Center. |
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Candidates for Mayor-President of
East Baton Rouge Parish will participate in a forum
at Southern University on Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 10
a.m. in the Cotillion Ballroom of the Smith-Brown
Memorial Union. |
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