DSU Announces 2 Alumni As Commencement Speakers:
Jimmie Allen @jimmieallen is a country music singer and songwriter from Milton, Delaware. He is signed to Broken Bow Records imprint Stoney Creek, for which he has released the two singles “Best Shot” and “Make Me Want To” and the 2018 album Mercury Lane. In 2021, he won the Country Music Association Award for New Artist of the Year, the second black artist to do so since Darius Rucker in 2009.
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Dr Willis L. Lonzer, III (@elevatingalpha) is the General President of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He is an executive scientist with 20 years of global pharmaceutical research and development and global medical affairs experience. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he matriculated to Delaware State University, where he was a Charles Waples Scholar in chemistry and earned Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. While at Delaware State, he joined the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. through the Gamma Sigma Chapter on November 15, 1986. He also holds the Doctor of Philosophy degree in biochemistry from The University of Akron, where was a prestigious Patricia Roberts Harris Predoctoral Fellow. Dr. Lonzer was also a postdoctoral fellow in physiology and biophysics at Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine.
