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This Week in Pictures | 01/19/2013 - 01/25/2013

On Jan. 25, the Baton Rouge Speech and Hearing Foundation broke ground at LSU Innovation Park for its new facility that will be called The Emerge Center for Communication, Behavior and Development. Charles D'Agostino, executive director of LSU Innovation Park and the Louisiana Business and Technology Center, announced the public private partnership between LSU and BRSHF. The Emerge Center is the first tenant to break ground at LSU’s Innovation Park. The Baton Rouge Speech and Hearing Foundation selected LSU Innovation Park as the site for its new center because of the research-driven nature of its innovative therapies as well as the long-standing partnerships it enjoys with LSU faculty and student workers.
BRSHF was founded in 1960 as a non-profit organization to help deaf and hearing impaired children. Jamie Fletcher and her son, a current student at BRSHF, are excited about the new Emerge Center and its capacity to bring treatment to more children. On Wednesday, Jan. 23, the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee and the Black History Month Committee hosted author, scholar and social commentator Michael Eric Dyson for the keynote address at the MLK Commemorative Celebration. A professor of sociology at Georgetown University and the author of more than a dozen books, MLK Commemorative Celebration keynote speaker Michael Eric Dyson has been an American Book Award recipient, two-time NAACP Image Award winner and is considered to be one of the nation's most influential public intellectuals.
On Monday, Jan. 21, more than 150 LSU students participated in the MLK Day of Service by sprucing up McKinley High School and promoting volunteerism, one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s fundamental principles. On Monday, Jan. 21, a candlelight vigil and march, sponsored by National Pan-Hellenic Council, was held to observe Martin Luther King Day. The MLK candlelight vigil and march began at the Memorial Tower and proceeded to the Broussard Atrium. The program was in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights marches of the 1960s to remember those who marched for freedom and the eradication of the ills of society.

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