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Published July 9, 2008
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University, Baton Rouge speaker Gov. Bobby Jindal
highlighted one of the four System Spring graduations.
Jindal told the graduates the key to real success
is faithfulness and faith in building strong relationships
with family and friends. He challenged graduates to
"dream big" and see the world, but to then
come back to Louisiana. |
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The Southern University, Baton Rouge search for a new chancellor ended in late May when System President Ralph Slaughter recommended and the Board of Supervisors appointed Kofi Lomotey to the position. |
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Polite Stewart Jr. didn't have a usual first day as a college student. There were new faces and new experiences, but he also had negotiated camera crews and broadcast interviews between classes. Polite stands out because, at 14-years-old, he is the youngest freshman at Southern University, Baton Rouge. |
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Jamal A. Taylor says he wants to be a "catalyst for change" in his new role as student member of the Southern University Board of Supervisors, the governing body for the Southern University system. |
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The Southern University System celebrated “SU Day at the Louisiana State Capitol” Tuesday, May13. Representatives from the five System campuses set up information tables in the Capitol Rotunda and resolutions were passed in the House of Representatives and in the Senate honoring the Southern University System. |
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SU alumnus Viola King and her family donated $60,000 to the Southern University System to establish the Rosalie Guidry Daste Endowed Professorship in Urban Education in the College of Education at Southern University, Baton Rouge. |
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The M.A. Edmond Livestock Show Arena was hopping April 19 when youth from across the state participated in the 36th Annual Rabbit Show. The event, sponsored by or the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center, was held Saturday, April 19 and is geared to teach leadership skills, character development, and entrepreneurship skills. |
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The Siemens Foundation, charitable arm of the international technologies innovator Siemens Corporation has awarded a $25,000 Siemens Fellowship to the Southern University System to aid programs focusing on science and technology. The funding will support the Strengthening Minority Access to Research and Training (SMART) program and its Timbuktu Academy on Southern University Baton Rouge campus.
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Six delegates from the Southern University Ag Center attended the 78th National 4-H Conference in Washington, D.C., in early April and joined more than 350 youth and adults gathered to share ideas and form recommendations to guide the future of national 4-H youth development programs. |
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Red River Bank Area President Harold Turner and Community Liaison Willie Spears presented a $5000 check to Chancellor Ray Belton to aid Southern University Shreveport’s efforts in supporting affordable housing programs and small business incubation. |
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Southern University and Duke University
have launched a program to recruit and encourage mid-career
members of businesses, government and nonprofits in
Louisiana to become "servant leaders," people who
work for the common good. |
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Southern University, New Orleans (SUNO)
held a ground breaking ceremony for its first-ever
residential housing facility on Thursday, June 26,
2008 at 1 p.m. on the Lake Campus (6801 Press Drive).
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The Southern University Department of Athletics announced at the end of May that 36 current or former student-athletes that received degrees from Southern University, Baton Rouge or the Southern University Law Center. |
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The Southern University, New Orleans
(SUNO) Small Business Development and Management Institute
hosted NxLeveL classes for entrepreneurs from June
3 to July 3 on the Lake Campus at 6801 Press Drive
in Building 43. The course was designed to educate
those who want to start their own businesses. |
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Southern University baseball standout Calvin Anderson was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 12th round of the recent 2008 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. The Jaguar 1st baseman and designated hitter will be starting his professional career after making the second team of the 2007 All-SWAC squad. |
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Willie Davenport, Rodney Milburn, and now, Brian Johnson -- SU Olympians. Johnson solidified his name in Southern athletic lore forever, as he finished second in the long jump recently at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. |
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Kevin Dejan and Ave Ross, students in the Southern University, Baton Rouge MBA program, recently participated in the Global Summer Institute in the U.S. Virgin Islands and spent two weeks in the islands at a global leaders program. |
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Niiobli Armah IV, a graduate student at Southern University, Baton Rouge has been selected as one of 20 students in the nation to serve in the inaugural class of the City Hall Fellows (CHF) public policy fellowship program. |
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The Louisiana Board of Regents yesterday unanimously granted approval for the reinstatement of three critical programs to Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO). Students will once again have the option to major in mathematics, English or history. |
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The Southern University baseball program has signed six players - including four right-handed pitchers - for next season. Stocking the bullpen is a priority for Southern, which was the Western Division champion but last won the Southwestern Athletic Conference title in 2005. SU loses two of its top relief pitchers, Theo Ycoy and Cody Elliott, who were seniors last season. |
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The Southern men's basketball program
concluded its recruitment season with the addition
of two more players. Tim Brown, a 6-foot-8 center,
from Garden City Community College and Lester "Skip"
Johnson Jr., a 6-5 small forward/shooting guard, from
Hale High in Tulsa, Okla., have signed with SU. |
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The tradition and history of Southern University sports was highlighted in a recent special section of The Advocate. The "Where we Live" issue is an annual collection of facts and features of the Greater Baton Rouge area. The Southern Game Day experience and a description of the Jaguar Nation were included. |
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Southern football standout and eight-time NFL All-Pro Aeneas Williams was among eight sports figures inducted in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Saturday, June 20. Basketball great Karl Malone and fellow Pro Bowler Leonard Marshall, and former state high school sports commissioner Tommy Henry join Williams in the 2008 induction class as selected by an elite panel of state sports media. |
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The Southwestern Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors Group recently named Kevin Manns of Southern University, Baton Rouge the 2007-08 SWAC SID of the Year. The award is given annually to the top sports information person during the group's spring meeting. |
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Joseph Orban, dean of science and
liberal arts has been awarded the President's Volunteer
Service Award from the President's Council on Service
and Civic Participation. |
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The Southern Jaguars finished the 2007-2008 athletic year in second place in the Commissioner Cup standings. SU finished with 142.5 points in the James Frank Award, narrowly edging out Grambling State and Prairie View A&M, who each finished with 142 points. |
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The late Dean Aguinaldo Alphonse Lenoir was honored Friday, June 27 during a reception at the Southern University Law Center on the occasion of the family reunion of the Lenoir Family.
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Barbara West Carpenter, dean of the Southern University Center for International Education and director of Continuing Education and Service Learning, has been named local Commissioner of the Year by the Louisiana Housing Council (LHC) during a recent meeting. |
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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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The historic first Grambling State University and Southern University Joint National Alumni Conference begins today and runs through Sunday, July 13 in New Orleans. |
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The Southern University System-sponsored J.K. Haynes Teacher Preparation conference seeks to empower Louisiana educators to meet the challenges seen in the ever-changing classroom. The conference, scheduled for July 15 in the J.K. Haynes Hall (former School of Nursing Building), is in the fifth year of its mission to strengthen educational offerings in the state of Louisiana and draws hundreds of teaching professionals each year. |
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Southern University, New Orleans' Master of Arts in Museum Studies Program presents "Inspiration Exhibition" at the Jazz and Heritage Festival Gallery until August 1. A reception with the artists was held on Saturday, June 21 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Jazz and Heritage Gallery at 1045 North Rampart Street. |
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