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The Southern University School of Nursing and Allied Health’s Graduate Nursing Program was recently honored as the “2017 Nursing School of the Year, Graduate Degree Programs,” by the Louisiana Nurses Foundation, Saturday, April 4, 2017, at the annual Nightingale Awards Gala, the “Academy Awards” of Nursing and Healthcare.

Southern University Baton Rouge has revamped its Legacy Award to offer students of at least one parent who is a Southern graduate to receive a 100 percent out-of-state fee waiver instead of the 50 percent wavier previously provided.

Southern University Baton Rouge has collaborated with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), select land-grant HBCUs, and state agencies to develop the “1890’s Institutions Initiative” to forge global partnership to create the production of human capital in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, and Mathematics (STEAM).

Southern University microbiology student Jessica Tilson has been invited by Georgetown University president John J. DeGioia to participate in a Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope, and the Dedication of Isaac Hawkins Hall and Anne Marie Becraft Hall, Tuesday, April 18, 2017.

The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) recently conferred upon Rao Uppu, the James and Ruth Endowed Professor of Environmental Toxicology in the College of Sciences and Engineering at Southern University Baton Rouge (SUBR), its premier dual credential, Registered Environmental Health Specialist/ Registered Sanitarian (REHS/RS).

Luria Young, Southern University Baton Rouge vice provost for academic affairs, was elected to serve as the president-elect for the Conference of Louisiana Colleges and Universities (CLCU) during the organization’s 78th annual meeting April 6, 2017, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches.

D.M.R. Spikes Honors College students make presentations at LCHC annual meeting Della Netter-Perkins, a long-time counselor and instructor in the Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes (D.M.R. Spikes) Honors College at Southern University Baton Rouge, was elected president of the Louisiana Collegiate Honors Council (LCHC) during the group’s 2017 annual meeting, March 18, hosted by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

The Southern University music department recently had five students to place in the Student Audition portion of the Louisiana National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) conference. The conference was held at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, March 11, 2017.

Beginning Fall 2017, transfer students from California Community Colleges (CCC) awarded an associate degree, will be guaranteed admission to the Southern University Baton Rouge (SUBR) at junior standing as part of a partnership through the California Community Colleges Transfer Guarantee to Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program.