SU College of Agriculture holds Annual Awards & Recognition Banquet
Baton Rouge, La. – Southern University students enrolled in the College of Agricultural, Family and Consumer Sciences with a 3.0 or higher grade point average were honored during the College’s Annual Awards and Recognition Banquet on Thursday, March 21.
The event, which was themed “Building Excellence: A Lifetime of Harvest,” was held at 6 p.m. in the Cotillion Ballroom of the Smith-Brown Memorial Student Union on Southern University’s campus.
Students who participated in internship and received scholarships for the Fall 2018 – Spring 2019 academic year were also recognized during the banquet.
Ron Jackson, Ph.D., Chief Learning Officer, was the keynote speaker for the event.
The banquet is held annually to recognize the College’s honor students, scholarship recipients and highlight student research efforts and student clubs and organizations.
The evening was chaired by Renita Marshall, Kenyetta Nelson-Smith, and Zhu Ning. Their committee members included Yaw Twumasi, Meguna Johnson, Alice Dyson, Mila Berhane, Keisha Ceasar, D’Andre Lee, LaKeeshia Giddens Lusk, Angela Phelps, Jacqueline Dixon, Calvin Walker, Yadong Qi, Harold Mellieon, Patricia Meyinsse, Cheryl Atkinson, Gary Simon and Allison Johnson.
