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Dr. Wanda Raby Spurlock, an associate professor in the Southern University College of Nursing and Allied Health, was recently installed as the Vice President of the National Gerontological Nursing Association at the organization’s 2014 NGNA Annual Convention in San Antonio, Texas.

The Department of Psychology is sponsoring the 16th annual Social and Behavioral Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Nov. 13, in the Cotillion Ballroom of the Smith-Brown Memorial Union

Southern University is collaborating with Mary Bird Perkins – Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month during “SU Geaux Pink Week,” Oct. 27-Nov.1.

Being a Southern Jaguar is a legacy that is lived 365 day a year! The 365 Jaguar Fund is the official annual fund account for the Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, which supports the recruitment and retention initiatives.

I am overjoyed to accept the position as Director of Bands at Southern University and A&M College. I look forward and eager to making positive contributions for our band program, SUBR, the Southern University System, and state of Louisiana. The last four months as Interim Director of Bands has been exciting and intense, an opportunity to live out my dream and fulfill my destiny.

Dr. Diola Bagayoko, interim chairman of the Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Mathematics/Science Education, and several colleagues, have received a $358,725 one-year grant to continue work on a project that began in 2010.

Southern University celebrated receiving the national Tree Campus recognition today with the Arbor Day Foundation and Toyota by planting trees during a hands-on volunteer event today on the Baton Rouge campus. Southern becomes the first historically black college in Louisiana to receive the designation and it is one of only five other HBCUs in the U.S. to be selected as a Tree Campus.

Southern University is continuing its effort to attract international students as it moves ahead with a program that could bring up to 30 Afro-Brazilian students to the Baton Rouge campus in the fall of 2015.