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Southern University participated in the 2016 Belize Study Abroad program with Wesley Junior College in Belize, Central America, May 15-June 5. The three-week program was coordinated through the SU Center for International Affairs and University Outreach, directed by dean and state representative Barbara Carpenter, with assistant to the dean, Kristan Gordon.

Southern University Baton Rouge senior Daris Schneider-Bray will attend the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Convention this summer thanks to a scholarship award from the Baton Rouge Area Association of Black Journalists (BRAABJ).

The Southern University System has nominations in nine categories for the 2016 HBCU Awards. HBCU Digest recently announced the finalists in 28 categories for the sixth installment of the national award ceremony that acknowledges and celebrates achievements at historically black colleges and universities throughout the United States.

United States Congressman Cedric Richmond delivered the commencement address for Southern University Baton Rouge’s spring commencement exercises Friday, May 13, 2016, in the F.G. Clark Activity Center.

Eleven SU Baton Rouge (SUBR) urban forestry students have been selected to receive a Global Scholar Award through the Global Research Experience for Students Program launched by the Urban Forestry and Natural Resources Program at SUBR.

Five Southern University Baton Rouge (SUBR) students will travel to Central America to participate in the 2016 Belize Study Abroad program, May 15 – June 5, 2016.

Saritha Rakam, a graduate student from the SU Baton Rouge Department of Computer Science, achieved the best graduate poster presentation award in the division of computer science, math, and statistics and material sciences and engineering, during the 90th Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Academy of Sciences at Louisiana State University Alexandria, April 23, 2016.

Southern University students Isis Francis, a sophomore biology major from Lafayette, and Lee Paige, a sophomore business major from Muskegon, Michigan, take advantage of the pleasant weather as they enjoy lunch on the bluff overlooking the Mississippi river on the Baton Rouge campus.

Three Mass Communication professors presented research papers at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 17-20, 2016.