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Dania receives award

MBJ Staff — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:04:35 +0000

Alcorn State University School of Business faculty member Dr. Akash Dania’s research paper titled “Examining Performance of Socially Responsible Investing: Case of Faith Based Compliance” was awarded the McGraw-Hill/Irwin Distinguished Paper Award in International Business studies at the recently held 2013 Federation of Business Discipline conference in Albuquerque, N.M. This research paper was co-authored with [...]

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Dania’s paper wins award

MBJ Staff — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:05:52 +0000

Alcorn State University School of Business faculty Dr. Akash Dania’s research paper has won an award. Titled “Examining Performance of Socially Responsible Investing: Case of Faith Based Compliance,” Dania was awarded the McGraw-Hill/Irwin Distinguished Paper Award in International Business studies at the recently held 2013 Federation of Business Discipline conference in Albuquerque, N.M.

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Wynter named Trailblazer

MBJ Staff — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:40:41 +0000

The Council of Engineering Deans of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Lockheed Martin Corporation and US Black Engineer and Information Technology magazine has selected Michelle Wynter of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg as a Science Spectrum Trailblazer for 2012. Wynter was recognized for her achievements at a luncheon during the [...]

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Brown appointed trustee

MBJ Staff — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:18:23 +0000

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges has elected Alcorn State University president M. Christopher Brown II to its board of trustees. Brown’s tenure begins January 2012 and ends December 2015. Brown is not new to accreditation work having previously functioned as an assessment consultant for the Middle States Association of Colleges [...]

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Acholonu makes presentation

MBJ Staff — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:30:47 +0000

Dr. Alex D.W. Acholonu, professor of biology at Alcorn State University, recently attended the International Congress of Tropical Medicine and Malaria held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Acholonu presented a paper on the “Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in chickens (Gallus domesticus) from McComb, Mississippi, USA.” He also published two articles — “Water as a [...]

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CMMC welcomes Farmer

MBJ Staff — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:01:46 +0000

Marla Martin Farmer, RN, MSN, of Natchez has joined Central Mississippi Medical Center as director of surgical services. Farmer brings with her more than 25 years of healthcare experience as a registered nurse, most extensively with 17 years of OR experience and eight years of surgical management experience. Her vast experience in management includes strategic [...]

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Panicker delivers lecture

MBJ Staff — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 06:01:07 +0000

Dr. Girish Panicker, director of the Center for Conservation Research at Alcorn State University, delivered a lecture ‘Organic Muscadine Production on Heavy Soil and Its Impact on Environmental Performance’ at the second International Organic Fruit Research Symposium held recently in Leavenworth, Washington. The symposium was sponsored by the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) in [...]

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Center recognizes Brown

MBJ Staff — Sun, 27 May 2012 17:56:59 +0000

Alcorn State University president M. Christopher Brown II recently received the 2012 Isaac Murphy Image Award for Education at Kentucky Center for African American Heritage in Louisville, Ky., during its annual awards ceremony honoring African Americans who have made a difference. According to the center, Brown received the award based on his work and contributions [...]

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Alcorn alum honored

MBJ Staff — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 06:01:32 +0000

The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) recently honored four Alcorn State University alumni. A native of Water Valley, Verdia L. Haywood received his bachelor’s degree with honors in political sciences and economics from Alcorn in 1970. He then received a national urban fellowship to attend graduate school at the University of [...]

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For Mississippi farmers … Cost uncertainties temper cheers for prospect of higher crop prices

Ted Carter — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:01:23 +0000

A pair of Mississippi agriculture economists say 2012 crop winners should be soybeans, corn and — to a lesser degree — cotton. But don’t expect farmers are sleeping all that well as March arrives and planting choices must be made, said John Michael Riley, an agriculture economist with the Agricultural Extension Service at Mississippi State [...]

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