FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2/06)
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Centenary's Diya Surie Earns Southern Sociological Society's 'Best Undergraduate Paper' Award

	Centenary student Diya Surie, recipient of sociology award.

SHREVEPORT, LA — Centenary senior Diya Surie's paper, "Ideological Foundations of Healthcare Inequality: A Cross-Cultural Study," has been awarded the 2006 Odum Award from the Southern Sociological Society for best undergraduate paper.

Surie, a sociology major from Shreveport, will receive the award on March 24 at an awards reception at the Southern Sociological Society meeting in New Orleans, where she will present her paper.
 
A Centenary graduate, who is now working on a doctorate in sociology at Vanderbilt — Harmony Newman — also won this award in 2003. 

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