NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Dr. Ray Darville, professor of sociology at Stephen F. Austin State University, will present "The Seventh Objective: Live a Natural Life" at the upcoming Regents Lecture.

Darville, the 2015-16 Regents Professor, will deliver the address at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, in the Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus. Refreshments will be served, and there is no admission charge. The Phi Eta Sigma induction ceremony will follow the lecture.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Distinguished photographer Abelardo Morell will serve as juror for the 22nd Texas National, Stephen F. Austin State University's acclaimed art competition and exhibition, which opens April 9 and runs through June 11 in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

Texas National features an assortment of art, including photography, painting, sculpture and mixed media, according to John Handley, director of SFA galleries. This year's exhibition includes 93 pieces of art by 98 different artists from 29 states.

SFA's playwright-in-residence, Jack Heifner

NACOGDOCHES, Texas -The Beta Phi cast of Alpha Psi Omega National Theatre Honor Society at Stephen F. Austin State University will host a playwriting workshop with SFA's playwright-in-residence, Jack Heifner.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre will present the student-directed play "The Lover" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 8, and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 9, in the Downstage Theatre on the SFA campus.

Directed by senior theatre major Robert Malbrough of Houston, "The Lover," a one-act play by Nobel Prize-winning English playwright Harold Pinter, is a comedy in which a married couple creates sexual games to liven up their relationship.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and School of Art will present an exhibition of the works of Vera Barnett March 30 through May 6 in Griffith Gallery on the SFA campus and in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

The exhibition will feature oil paintings, as well as examples of the artist's plastic models used to make her paintings, according to John Handley, director of galleries at SFA, who first saw Barnett's work while he was visiting Valley House Sculpture Garden and Gallery in Dallas.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The next in an ongoing science, technology, education and mathematics lecture series organized by the Stephen F. Austin State University College of Sciences and Mathematics will continue this month with presentations from two long-time ExxonMobil employees.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - As spring begins and warm, sunny weather beckons campers to explore the great outdoors, patrons of Arkansas' most-visited state park, Crater of Diamonds, may notice a few changes based upon recommendations made by students enrolled in the Stephen F. Austin State University course Management of Outdoor Recreation Areas.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free, one-night screening of "Shadow of the House" at 7 p.m. Friday, April 1, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Dovetailing on its final day with Stephen F. Austin State University's Showcase Saturday open-house event, the College of Sciences and Mathematics will host the 96th annual Mathematical Association of America - Texas Section conference on the campus this spring.

The annual meeting of MAA will take place Thursday, March 31, through Saturday, April 2. Faculty and staff members, students and the community, particularly K-12 teachers, are encouraged to attend.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin State University's College of Sciences and Mathematics will host the second annual Women in STEM Luncheon and Style Show in April as part of its ongoing effort to increase college enrollment among science, technology, education and mathematics disciplines.