SU Fall 2016 top grad encouraged by parents on journey to SU, and to her dreams

The top graduate for Southern University's Fall 2016 Commencement, Laura Syori, was born in Gitega, Burundi, a small country in East Africa about the size of Maryland.

Syori, who is graduating magna cum laude, with a bachelor of science in biology from the College of Sciences and Engineering, will lead the 437 SU fall candidates for degrees.Read full story here (www.subr.edu).