NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s police department and its Emergency Management team will conduct Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training sessions June 3-7 at an unspecified location on the SFA campus.

Despite the enhanced police presence during the specified time, members of the university and Nacogdoches communities should be aware this is a drill and not an immediate threat.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s SFA Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. June 13 in the Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center.

Dawn Stover, study leader at the East Texas Plant Materials Center within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, will present “Unleashing the Flower Fairy: The Evolution of the Southern Garden Girl.”

NACOGDOCHES, Texas –– Stephen F. Austin State University’s Tara Bocock, a senior political science major and pre-law minor in SFA’s Department of Government, served as the university’s inaugural representative in The University of Texas System’s Archer Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C., during the spring 2024 semester.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Plans are well underway for the 2024 version of Stephen F. Austin State University’s SummerStage Festival. The family friendly event presented annually by the School of Theatre and Dance makes its way back to Griffith Fine Arts Building after several years of make-shift performances while Griffith renovation was underway.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s SFA Gardens recently hosted the 26th annual Bugs, Bees, Butterflies and Blossoms event on April 5 and April 19 at the Mast Arboretum.

This collaborative event — organized by the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, SFA Gardens, SFA Department of Education Studies, Texas Forestry Association, and Texas A&M Forest Service — offers SFA education students valuable hands-on teaching experiences with kindergarten through third-grade children in an engaging outdoor environment.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s Jordan Coleman, a Master of Arts in public history student from Effingham, Illinois, has been named a Jess Hay Graduate Fellow by The University of Texas System for the 2024-25 academic year.

The fellowship is a unique graduate opportunity established by the late Jess Hay, a former UT System regent who was an advocate and visionary leader for the UT System. Hay passed away in 2015. The fellowship was designed to tie graduate education to timely and high-quality research benefiting the state of Texas.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Two theatre students from Stephen F. Austin State University brought the highest honors in collegiate acting to the university when they won the Irene Ryan Acting Competition at the National Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival recently in Washington, D.C.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University students received monetary awards — many donated by Nacogdoches-area financial institutions — during an April 17 ceremony.

Award recipients were chosen by faculty members from the SFA Rusche College of Business’ Department of Economics and Finance.