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ESPN's "SporsNation" co-hosts Michelle Beadle and Marcelllus Wiley and crew, set up camp at Southern University where they broadcast the popular show live on the Mississippi River bluff on campus, Thursday, January 13.

ESPN2's "SportsNation" will be produced live at 4 p.m. Thursday from Southern alongside the bluff overlooking the Mississippi River.

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber released a research paper, "Toward a Renaissance at Southern University A&M College," focused on improving the academic standing of Southern University's Baton Rouge campus.

Students like Sharetha Brown, a single-parent, enrolled in a graduate program at Southern University, Baton Rouge, are able to get tuition assistance through the state's Individual Development Account program which helps low-income residents with children become homeowners.

Southern University, New Orleans (SUNO) Foundation, has been awarded $25,000 from The Coca-Cola Foundation (the Foundation), the philanthropic arm of The Coca-Cola Company. The grant will provide first generation college scholarships to 20 students who are enrolled as full-time students at SUNO.

SUBR accreditation reaffirmed by SACS.

Latoya Reneé Bean has been named chief student marshal, the student with the highest grade point average, in the fall 2010 Southern University Baton Rouge graduating class.

Judge Glenda Hatchett, widely known for her nationally-syndicated TV series, will be the guest speaker at Southern University, Baton Rouge's Fall 2010 commencement exercises set for 10:30 a.m., December 10 in the F.G. Clark Activity Center.

Southern University senior, Jean-Michel Moise placed second at the 8th Annual Bayou Sales Challenge recently held at Nicholls State University.

The executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) recently voted to recommend that the Southern University Law Center be admitted to full membership in the association, Chancellor Freddie Pitcher Jr., announced in a release on November 19.