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One of the most musically inclined students at Southern University Baton Rouge (SUBR) recently completed lead piano on an independent film that will premiere in the New Orleans Film Festival this October, in addition to a list of other noteworthy accomplishments.

Three Mass Communication professors presented research papers at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 17-20, 2016.

Southern University Baton Rouge (SUBR) was one of 48 HBCUs competing in Los Angeles, California for the 27th annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC) National Championship, April 3-5, 2016.

Southern University Baton Rouge music students Joshua Staes and Arthur Gremillion won the Regional (Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas) National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) Scholarship Auditions in voice, held April 8-9, 2016, in Dallas, Texas.

Three Southern University Baton Rouge (SUBR) students Arnedia Wallace, Andre Spears, and Luke Williams won honors for presentations at the 73rd Joint Annual Meeting of Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honors Society and the National Institute of Science, April 6-9, 2016, in Hampton, Virginia.

The families of Southern University Baton Rouge students Lashuntae Benton and Annette January, who died Sunday, April 10, 2016, in an incident off campus, have announced memorial arrangements for Friday, April 15 and Saturday, April 16.

SU alum and Homeland Security official to speak

Southern University and A&M College student scholars Kristofer McKinney and Michael Agbor made presentations at the Southern Regional Honors Council (SRHC) conference in Orlando, Florida, March 31 through April 2, 2016. The theme for the conference was “The Magic of Honors.”

Southern University Baton Rouge (SUBR) freshmen Jonalyn Fair and Oscar McClain, and graduating senior André Spears, have been selected to participate in the Summer 2016 Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP).

John Warner Smith, an adjunct professor in the Southern University Baton Rouge (SUBR) Department of English, will release his second book-length collection of poetry, Soul Be A Witness: Songs to Boys of Color.