NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin State University has been named one of the top 10 best value colleges in the nation for its online master's degree in early childhood education by College Values Online, a website dedicated to helping students select the best university for them.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin State University students enrolled in an advertising and promotion course in the Rusche College of Business are embarking on a challenge to help counter violent extremism as part of a national competition.

In Edventure's Peer to Peer: Challenging Extremism competition, students must create and activate their own social media campaigns to challenge violent extremist ideology, propaganda and recruitment by creating positive, alternative or counter narratives, according to the competition's guidelines.

Photo of Ron Raines from the 1968 Nacogdoches High School yearbook.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The year was 1968. It was a time of riots, assassinations and protests, "mostly over the Vietnam War," according to Nacogdoches businessman and Realtor David Yates. It was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius with peace, love and harmony, hippies and bra burning.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin State University's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs 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 help prepare them and their research for submission to national grant programs.

Dr. Bob and Kathy Lehmann were recognized at a recent meeting of the SFA Board of Regents, and the university's chemistry building has been named in their honor. Pictured are, from left, the Lehmanns; SFA President Baker Pattillo; and Dr. Scott Coleman, chair of the SFA Board of Regents.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The chemistry building at SFA has been named to honor Dr.

Stephen F. Austin State University interior design students recently collaborated with staff members at the Nacogdoches Treatment Center to create site and floor plans for a proposed assisted living facility for patients with Alzheimer's disease.

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NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre will present the student-directed, one-act play "Picnic on the Battlefield" by Fernando Arrabal with English translation by Barbara Wright at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, in the Downstage Theatre on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - A Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre event on Feb. 11 will help raise funds for theatre students to travel Edinburgh, Scotland, in August to participate in the two-week Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

"An Evening of Love Scenes and Songs" will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, in the Upstage Theatre in the Griffith Fine Arts Building on the SFA campus. The show will feature theatre faculty members and students performing scenes from William Shakespeare's plays and singing love songs.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas -The Stephen F. Austin State University Department of Biology will host its second annual Darwin Day program. The program will include a seminar by Dr. Charles Pence, assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies at Louisiana State University. Pence's seminar is titled "Evolution and Chance: From Darwin to the Pioneers of Statistics in Biology."