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Mountainview Elementary School principal Melissa Pritchard, left, congratulates Stephen F. Austin State University alumna Ashlee Brewster on being named the 2016-17 Teacher of the Year. Brewster has taught second grade at Mountainview since August 2014.NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Ashlee Brewster, a 2013 Stephen F. Austin State University graduate, was named the 2016-17 Teacher of the Year for Mountainview Elementary School in Waco.
Eva Amsler and Shalev Ad-ElNACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music will host a guest flute and harpsichord recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 1, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz was in Nacogdoches recently and visited with Stephen F. Austin State University administrators and supporters at the Juanita Curry Boynton House. After a welcome from SFA President Baker Pattillo, pictured at right, Cruz discussed a variety of topics, including the effects of the nationalized student loan program and immigration reform on higher education.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.NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F.
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.