NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Dr. Linda Black, associate professor in Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of Secondary Education and Educational Leadership, received the Billy Sills Distinguished Service Award from the Texas Council for the Social Studies, which is a nonprofit organization serving social studies educators and supporters across the state.

The award honors members who have demonstrated exemplary service to the organization and exemplify the professional social studies educator, according to the council’s website.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s Rusche College of Business has renovated a classroom on the third floor of the McGee Business Building into a One Button Studio and a 20-seat testing room.

Room 322 is now transformed into a dual-purpose area where students and faculty members can create video projects with the click of a button.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Slipping on HTC Vive goggles, Stephen F. Austin State University senior Alexandra Caballero is immediately transported hundreds of leagues under the sea. Without flippers or the typical wetsuit associated with scuba diving, Caballero stands on a wooden sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean. A tiny, silver fish swims up to her mask, and to her right, a school of manta rays zips past. Without warning, a massive figure approaches — a 32,000-pound, 67-feet-long sperm whale.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s Office of Research and Graduate Studies has announced the recipients of its annual Research and Creative Activity grants. The RCA grant program was created to help support the initial research efforts of SFA faculty members and to help prepare them and their research for submission to national grant programs.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — The Counseling Clinic at Stephen F. Austin State University will be hosting a free weekly tension, stress management and relaxation group starting at 3 p.m. July 1 via Zoom.

All are welcome to join the one-hour, open discussions and learn new relaxation techniques to better manage stress.

Research has shown that prolonged stress can cause or exacerbate many serious health problems, including:

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Like all universities and public and private school systems across the globe, Stephen F. Austin State University found itself in mid-March suddenly shifting from delivering all in-person classroom instruction to online.

Some courses adapt to remote instruction easier than others. Scott Shattuck, associate dean of the SFA College of Fine Arts, was especially curious to learn how faculty members in the schools of art, music and theatre would teach performance skills and studio art technique courses through remote delivery.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Dozens of Stephen F. Austin State University students recently participated in Wetland Adventure, an outdoor science field investigation, at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, Texas.

Under the direction of Drs. Paula Griffin, assistant professor, and Alan Sowards, professor, in SFA’s James I. Perkins College of Education, 85 SFA face-to-face and online students participated in the project, which the university has offered for 15 years.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — How does the government define extremism and is that definition fair? And what is the difference between terrorism and self-defense?

Hundreds of Fort Bend ISD seniors gathered at Safari Texas Ranch this month to posit these and other probing questions to academic and federal officials during the 2016 Global Citizenship Series. This year’s conference, held Oct. 7, was titled “Intolerance and Violence: A Global Perspective.”

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Trenton Littleton of Nacogdoches and Kaitlyn Tanner of Pasadena, Texas, will serve as the 2016 Stephen F. Austin State University Homecoming Children of the Court during the annual celebration Nov. 4 and 5.