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F. G. Clark Activity Center is a 7,500-seat multi-purpose arena in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that opened in 1975. [1] It is home to two Southern University basketball teams, the Southern Jaguars and Southern Lady Jaguars . [ 2 ]
The Pete Maravich Assembly Center is a 13,215-seat multi-purpose arena in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The arena opened in 1972 and is home of the LSU Lady Tigers basketball team. It was originally known as the LSU Assembly Center , but was renamed in honor of Pete Maravich , a Tiger basketball legend, shortly after his death in 1988.
Sandra Kay Johnson (also published as Sandra Johnson Baylor) is a Japanese-born American electrical engineer, the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in electrical engineering at Rice University, [1] and the first black woman in the IBM Academy of Technology.
It is the largest academically-based nutrition research center in the world, with the greatest number of obesity researchers on faculty. [2] The center's over 500 employees occupy several buildings on the 222-acre (0.90 km 2) campus. [1] The center was designed by the Baton Rouge architect John Desmond.
The 2017–18 Southern Jaguars basketball team represented Southern University during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Jaguars, led by interim head coach Morris Scott, played their home games at the F. G. Clark Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
Baton Rouge Community College is a public community college in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Established on June 28, 1995, [2] the college settled into a permanent location in 1998. . The 60-acre (240,000 m 2) campus consists of six main buildings: Governors Building, Louisiana Building, Cypress Building, Bienvenue Student Center, the Magnolia Library and Performing Arts Pavilion, [3] and the Bonne ...
In 1911, Mother de Bethanie Crowley and five Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady traveled to America, stating their desire to serve the sick and needy. [1] Eight years after establishing a hospital in Monroe, Louisiana, Mother de Bethanie was invited to Baton Rouge by Monsignor Francis Leon Gassler of St. Joseph's Cathedral and a group of leading local physicians, to tour the downtown area in ...
A collapse of her husband's rice-farming business caused the family to move to Baton Rouge. [1] She matriculated at Louisiana State University (LSU), studying while her small children were at the parochial school nearby. She earned her AB in government in 1923, AM in 1925, LLB in 1926, and her MA in 1928.