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Stephen C. McGuire, professor of physics, Southern University Baton Rouge, recently gave an invited presentation on the 10‐year local partnership in science education between the University and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO).

Southern University Baton Rouge (SUBR) freshmen Jonalyn Fair and Oscar McClain, and graduating senior André Spears, have been selected to participate in the Summer 2016 Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP).

Diola Bagayoko, Southern University System distinguished professor of physics, dean of the D. M. R. Spikes Honors College, and director of the Timbuktu Academy, has been inducted as a fellow to the American Physical Society. The organization cited Bagayoko this designation for "..improving undergraduate physics education for all students through curriculum development, program development and administrative leadership, and broadening participation in physics through the preparation and mentorship of numerous ethnic/racial minorities in physics". 

Zhu Hua Ning, an endowed professor of sciences and an award-winning professor of urban forestry, has been awarded a $345,000 competitive grant to implement a project, “Quantifying Carbon Export through Vegetation, Biomass and Land Use Change Analysis of Two Contrasting Sites across Mississippi River Delta Plain."

The daughter of educators, born in Baton Rouge, Dawn has spent most of her adult life working to improve the lives of youths in her community and beyond. Her passion is to see others become their best selves, and she believes education, is a vehicle to success. Her journey includes receiving a BS degree in Computer Science, masters in Library and Information Science, and a PhD in Science and Mathematics Education, where her dissertation research focused on information literacy in STEM higher education

MERLOT and its outreach program to Africa (MERLOT Africa Network) launched a 2014/2015 Digital Scholars Program (DSP).