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Southern Bulletin, links to upcoming events and recent news, announcements, publications, and initiatives from throughout the Southern University System.

Urban Forestry Professor Zhu H. Ning, PhD/Project Director, and her project team have received $297,479.00 from the US Department of Agriculture/National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) for Capacity Building Grant Program in support of a new project titled “Modeling Approach to Climate Change and Natural Resource Education.

Major L. Brock, assistant vice chancellor for student success at Southern University Shreveport (SUSLA), is the "Above and Beyond” Award recipient for April 2017.

Southern University Baton Rouge traffic guard Katherine Plant received the March 2017 "Above and Beyond" Award presented by the SU Board of Supervisors during its regular monthly meeting March 31 at the Solomon Episcopal Conference Center in Loranger.

Southern University Baton Rouge, March 9, 2017, observed its annual Founders' Day to celebrate 137 since its establishment as university, and to honor employees celebrating 10, 20, 30, and 40 years of service, and to recognize Southern University alumni who are elected officials throughout the state of Louisiana.

Southern University Baton Rouge (SUBR), March 9, 2017, will host its 137th Founders' Day with activities commemorating its history, honoring employees celebrating 10, 20, 30, and 40 years of service, and recognizing Southern University alumni who are elected officials throughout the state of Louisiana.

A long-time Baton Rouge business law professor and a SUNO Student Support Services director were awarded the first "Above and Beyond” Award presented by the Southern University Board of Supervisors during its regular monthly meeting February 17, 2017.

Southern University (SU) is scheduled to announce the Louisiana Interagency Alliance on Global Workforce Development (ALLIANCE), a collaboration with Louisiana Economic Development (LED) and the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC), Friday, February 17, 2017, during the SU System Board of Supervisors’ monthly meeting. The SU Board of Supervisors meeting will begin at 9 a.m. in the Board Meeting Room, second floor, in the J.S. Clark Administration Building on the Baton Rouge campus.

The Southern University Land-Grant Campus, consisting of the SU Ag Center and College of Agricultural, Family and Consumer Sciences, will host a Medical Marijuana Town Hall Meeting, February 23, 2017, at 2 p.m. in the Southern University Ag Center, A. O. Williams Hall, 181 B. A. Little Drive in Baton Rouge.

Two local chapters of The Links, Incorporated will come together to officially announce a partnership with Southern University through the national organization’s Historically Black Colleges And Universities (HBCU) Initiative, Tuesday, January 31, 2017, 9 a.m., in the Donald C. Wade House on the Baton Rouge campus.