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Joseph Meyinsee, chairman of the Department of Mathematics, Southern University, Baton Rouge; Lois Holden, assistant to the vice president for finance and business affairs, SU System; and recent grad Cedrick Wright are featured in the May issue of 225 magazine. www.225batonrouge.com.

Three Southern University spring 2007 graduates, Marcia Caillouet Arceneaux, David Arceneaux, and Ben Caillouet, all from the same family, were featured in The Advocate.
www.2theadvocate.com/news/suburban/7480917.html

Southern University, Baton Rouge, marketing major Shayla Price was featured in the Advocate, May 29. Price talks about her recently published book where she wrote about winning more than $100,000 in scholarships for college during her last two years of high school. Read about Price’s dedication at http://www.2theadvocate.com/features/7719882.html.

A small group of USDA plant scientists are working at SU Baton Rouge to make the plant world a little easier to navigate with a Web venture called PLANTS: “Plant List of Accepted Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Symbols. Director Scott Peterson, botanists Kat Anderson, Gerald Guala, and Mark Skinner; and agronomist James Henson were featured in story in the Advocate, Sunday, May 27, on their work. Read about their groundbreaking effort at http://www.2theadvocate.com/features/7688412.html or access The National Plant Data Center’s Web site.