NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University Alumni Association recently established the Auren and Alma Smith Memorial Scholarship to support undergraduate students attending the university.

This scholarship was endowed in loving memory of the couple by their daughter, Janyce Smith Brannon. Brannon, a 1957 and 1959 SFA graduate, is a retired CPA residing in Dallas.

The Auren and Alma Smith Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to currently enrolled students with an established major, and recipients must maintain at least a 3.0 grade-point average.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - "Cornelius Gurlitt and the Art Treasures Confiscated by the Nazis" will be the topic of a lecture Dr. Christoph Zuschlag will present at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, in Room 106 of the Art Annex on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University.

Zuschlag, professor of art history at the Landau campus of the University of Klobenz/Landau, Germany, is instrumental in the on-going student exchange between his university and SFA, according to Jill Carrington, professor of art history at SFA.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Memphis Woodwind Trio, comprised of the flute, clarinet and oboe faculty from the University of Memphis School of Music, will perform a concert of intimate chamber music for winds at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, in Cole Concert Hall on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus.

Works will range from the serious, such as Thea Musgrave's "Impromptu" for flute and oboe, to the sublime - an Antonin Dvorak string trio, re-imagined. The program will also feature works by J.S. Bach, H. Villa-Lobos, Malcolm Arnold and Leonardo de Lorenzo.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Uncommon combinations of instruments and a wide variety of musical styles will be explored during a Cole Performing Arts Series concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, in Cole Concert Hall on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus.

"Coleidoscope" is a series of chamber music collaborative faculty concerts honoring the SFA School of Music's "invaluable patrons," Ed Cole and the late Gwen Cole, according to Evgeni Raychev, cellist and SFA music faculty member.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The exhibition "Emily Peacock: Soft Diet" will show Feb. 25 through April 11 in the Hallway Reception Gallery at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

The Houston-based artist will present a talk about her work at 4:40 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25, in the SFA Art Building, located off Wilson Drive on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University Alumni Association recently established the Dr. Morgan Moses Memorial Scholarship to help support currently enrolled graduate students studying in the James I. Perkins College of Education.

Moses, of Longview, passed away April 17, 2014. Moses attended North Texas State University where he received his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degree in education. He served as a teacher, coach and principal for the Judson School District and earned tenure as a high school principal at Garland High School.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University Student Government Association and Hunger Jacks, in conjunction with the men's basketball team, will host the Pack the Pantry food and funds drive at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, in the William R. Johnson Coliseum on SFA's campus.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University Alumni Association recently established the W.B. and Erlean Irwin Scholarship to help support students studying in the James I. Perkins College of Education.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Staci Spring and Keith Lloyd, faculty members in the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music, will present "Bundles of Sticks: Music for Bassoon & Percussion" at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 1, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

Bassoonist Spring and percussionist Lloyd have been performing together since meeting in graduate school at Florida State University. Joining the husband-and-wife duo will be SFA colleagues Dr. Brad Meyer, percussion, and Geneva Fung, piano.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Swingin' Axes and Swingin' Aces, the jazz bands of Stephen F. Austin State University, will perform the music of such jazz greats as Thelonious Monk and Sammy Nestico when the bands take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

The Swingin' Axes will perform an eclectic concert of compositions from across the decades, according to Dr. Gary Wurtz, professor of trumpet and jazz studies at SFA and director of the Swingin' Axes.