BATON ROUGE – The Greater Baton Rouge Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management has named Heather Gaines and Sonda Brown as its fall scholarship recipients. The award is scheduled to be presented at the Greater Baton Rouge SHRM Holiday Social in December.

The scholarship is awarded each fall and spring semester to a human resource management student graduating with the highest grade point average. Selected students must be graduates of a Louisiana high school. Although the scholarship is normally awarded to only one recipient, the chapter decided to recognize both Gaines and Brown for achieving the highest grade point averages, with only a small difference between them. 

Gaines, a native of Clinton, La., and Brown, a native of Baton Rouge, will both graduate in December.

The Society for Human Resource Management is the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management. Representing more than 250,000 members in more than 140 countries, the society serves the needs of human resource professionals and advances the interests of the HR profession. Founded in 1948, SHRM has more than 575 affiliated chapters within the U.S. and subsidiary offices in China and India. For more information about SHRM’s Student Chapter Merit Award program, visit www.shrm.org/Communities/StudentPrograms/Pages/awards.aspx.

The Rucks Department of Management at LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business endeavors to prepare students for careers in fields such as international management, human resources, entrepreneurship and industrial/labor relations. A generous donation by LSU alumnus William W. Rucks and his wife, Catherine, has aided the department in securing faculty who are repeatedly recognized for their research and has aided student-affiliated organizations in achieving top honors nationally. For more information, visit www.bus.lsu.edu/management or call 225-578-6101.