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For Immediate Release: April 15, 2009
GSU President Judson honored by
Thurgood Marshall College Fund
Physics professor earns prestigious award
GRAMBLING, La. -- Grambling State University President Horace A. Judson was presented the 2009 Presidential Leadership Award by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) at the 10th Annual Member Universities Professional Institute & Exhibition in New Orleans.
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund was established in 1987 to carry on the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall’s legacy of ensuring equal access to higher education by supporting exceptional scholars attending America's public Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Also, Naidu V. Seetala, Edward Bouchet Endowed Professor of Physics at Grambling State University, received the 2009 Distinguished Faculty Award from the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF).
Seetala is the principal investigator of a DOE research grant, “Development of low cost membranes for H2/CO2 separation in WGS reactors,” and Co-principal investigator on an Air Force research grant, “Advanced Nano-Reinforced Composite Materials.”
He is the coordinator for the CMAST Research Program, Center for Mathematical Achievement in Science and Technology supported by NSF. As a part of research collaboration with Louisiana Tech University, he was involved in obtaining infrastructure grants to establish XRD and AFM facilities at Louisiana Tech, which are accessible for GSU faculty and students to conduct research.
More than 500 attendees joined TMCF for the annual best practices conference in New Orleans March 15-19. The largest event of its kind, the three-day intensive, skill-building and networking conference serves as a bridge between corporate and government agencies with university presidents, education deans, administrators, faculty, alumni and more than 200 diverse students majoring in sales, sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
Attendees share trends in higher education research and diversity recruitment that help develop innovative partnerships and enhance the learning environments at the 47 public Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
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