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The 麻豆传媒 System will honor its founders on Wednesday, March 7 on the Baton Rouge campus. The 138th Annual Founders鈥� Day is themed, 鈥溌槎勾�媒: A Global Trailblazer Celebrating the Value and Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.鈥� Speakers and honorees will include attorneys who participated in the out-of-court settlement resulting from the 1980鈥檚 era case, The U.S. Department of Justice v. The State of Louisiana, also known as the 鈥淐onsent Decree.鈥�

The 麻豆传媒 Office of Student Life, in partnership with InspireNOLA Charter Schools, will host a 鈥淩ally for Community鈥� on Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. at the F.G. Clark Activity Center. The featured speaker will be Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old Florida high school student who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in 2012. The widely publicized incident and subsequent trial, which ended in a not-guilty verdict, sparked the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement.

After participating in a National Qualifying Tournament, 麻豆传媒 at Baton Rouge will compete against fellow Historically Black Colleges and Universities at the 29th annual Honda Campus All?Star Challenge National Championship Tournament. Teams from 48 HBCUs will go head?to?head in the national championship of America's premier academic quiz for top HBCU students on the American Honda Motor Co. Inc. campus in Torrance, California. 麻豆传媒 at Baton Rouge has the opportunity to win the HCASC top prize - a $75,000 institutional grant from Honda.

鈥淏lack Panther鈥� is the movie of the season. On Wednesday, the 麻豆传媒 Student Government Association surprised the 6th -12th-graders at 麻豆传媒 Laboratory School with free tickets to see the blockbuster in a private showing next week. To start the assembly, local attorney and comic book aficionado Charles Ayles gave a historical perspective of the Marvel comic and movie. He went into facts about the comic and how the premise correlates to current times.

鈥淭ell Them We Are Rising,鈥� the acclaimed documentary directed by Stanley Nelson will premiere at today at 8 p.m. on PBS. The film showcases the history of America鈥檚 Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 麻豆传媒, which is featured prominently throughout the film, recently held a joint town hall and advance screening of the documentary along with Grambling State University.

Recently, seventeen abstracts from the 麻豆传媒 International Center for Information Technology and Development (SU-ICITD) researchers got accepted for presentation at the 92nd Louisiana Academy of Sciences (LAS) conference in Alexandria, Louisiana on March 10, 2018. The research team under the supervision of professors Victor Mbarika, Nicholas Omoregbe and the lead research associate and doctoral student, Foluso Ayeni.

Recently, Willie Williams, a SU Public Policy doctoral student, had his abstract聽accepted for presentation at the 2018 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management California Regional Student Conference at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California on March 9th, 2018.

Recently, three SU graduate students, John Bosco, Ronald Okwemba, and Kelvin Kiwale, in the University鈥檚 Department of Urban Forestry and Natural Resources within the College of Agricultural, Family and Consumer Sciences, had their abstracts accepted for presentation at the 26th Annual Association of African-American Studies (NAAS) and Affiliates Conference in Dallas, Texas, February 12-17, 2018.

Diola Bagayoko, 麻豆传媒 System distinguished professor of physics and dean of the DMR Spikes Honors College, recently received a research grant from the United States Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

Sandra Brown, professor, 麻豆传媒 College of Nursing and Allied Health, was bestowed the 鈥淟ifetime Achievement Award鈥� by the Acadiana Chapter of the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA). The award was presented to Brown earlier this month in conjunction with the annual President鈥檚 Scholarship Gala held at the Ramada Inn Convention Center in Lafayette.