Business Honors for Oct. 12, 2008
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Eli Jones, dean of LSU’s E.J. Ourso College of Business, was honored with the KPMG Ph.D. Project Marketing Doctoral Students Association Award. He was recognized for his resourcefulness in overcoming barriers and for his service, leadership and commitment to the marketing profession and for being an exemplary model.
Vu Luong and Shauna Soper, agents for New York Life Insurance Co., have earned the Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow designation from the American College in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Ten LSU Agricultural Center faculty members and a Southern University faculty member are part of a multistate team that received the first-place National and Southern Region Program Excellence through Research Award at the Galaxy III National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences conference. Beth Reames, extension nutritionist, was the leader of the team recognized for its tri-state research study that tested the effectiveness of a “Serving Food Safely” curriculum. Team members included family and consumer science extension agents Alexis Navarro, Bertina McGhee, Sally Soileau, Terri Crawford, Sheila Haynes and Berteal Rogers. Other members were David Bankston, professor in the Department of Food Service; Mike Keenan, associate professor, and Gerogianna Tuuri, assistant professor, in the School of Human Ecology. Other team members were De’Shoin Y. Friendship at Southern University, Melissa Mixon at Mississippi State University and Easter Tucker at the University of Arkansas.
Stacey Smith, director of the East Baton Rouge/Ascension Parish chapter of the National League of Junior Cotillions, received the New Director of the Year Award and the Presidential Award of Excellence from national headquarters. The National League of Junior Cotillions is a program of etiquette, character education, patriotism and social dance training for middle and junior high students, with 300 chapters nationwide. Smith received special recognition for her excellence in providing students’ skills.
The LSU School of Veterinary Medicine presented faculty and staff awards at its annual Phi Zeta Research Emphasis Day for biomedical research that is relevant to diseases in humans and animals. Winners in the student competition, including Master’s, undergraduate and veterinary students, and interns and residents are: first place to Soma Chowdhury, master’s degree student in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences; second place to Dr. Brooke Grasperge, laboratory animal resident, and to Laura D’Amico, a third-year veterinary student; and third place to Diana Babin, a third-year veterinary student. Winners in the Ph.D. category are: first place to Jeffrey Cardinale, in the Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences; second place to Matthew Rogge, in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences; and third place to Kathryn Reif, in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences.
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center has been selected for the 10th consecutive year by the National Research Corp. as the Consumer Choice Award winner for the hospital with the highest overall quality and image in the Baton Rouge metropolitan area. Consumer Choice award winners are determined by consumer perceptions on multiple quality and image ratings collected in the NRC Healthcare Market Guide study. The study surveys more than 200,000 households in the 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C.
Object 9 received one gold and five silver awards in the 2008 Create Awards graphic design, advertising and communications competition. Object 9 won gold for the Baton Rouge Area Chamber’s 2007 annual report in the “Touch & Feel” category; and silver for the report in the “Design Collateral” and “Collateral Advertising” categories; for Fire & Flavor’s Web site; for its Carroll Shelby Chili Kit packaging; and for Marques de Paiva packaging.
Franklin Press Inc. has received chain-of-custody certification from the Forest Stewardship Council as part of a clean, green printing initiative. Certification shows the direct mail, data management and printing company participates in a system of tracing timber products from their origin to their final customer, with FSC certified paper as regular house stock.
The Ascension Economic Development Corp. has received a 2008 Excellence In Economic Development Award from the International Economic Development Council in the special purpose Web site category. The organization’s Web site provides comprehensive information on the certified Pointe Sunshine megasite and the Orange Grove megasite. AEDC was chosen in the population category of 50,000-200,000 residents.
Entergy Corp. has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and Dow Jones Sustainability North American Index for 2008-2009. It was the third year in a row Entergy was the only U.S. utility selected to the world index. This year, Entergy ranked best in class for environmental policy/management system and for talent attraction and retention. Entergy also scored in the top percentile for corporate governance and climate strategy. In giving the designation, Dow Jones assesses corporate governance, risk management, climate change mitigation, supply chain standards and labor practices. It accounts for general as well as industry-specific sustainability criteria for each of 57 industries.
Recipients of national, regional, state or local honors are eligible for inclusion in the Business Honors column. In-house company honors and sales awards are not eligible. Deadline is 5 p.m. Monday. Items can be mailed or delivered to the Advocate business editor, 7290 Bluebonnet Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70810; faxed to (225) 388-0371; or e-mailed to blamb@theadvocate.com. Publication of any business honor is at the discretion of the editor. Items must include name and telephone number of a contact person. E-mail photo attachments should be JPEG, minimum 300K; 170 dpi; and size 3 by 5.
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