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Savannah Bunn, a senior dance performance and choreography major in Stephen F. Austin State University’s Denard Haden School of Theatre and Dance, has been selected as a fellow of the thINKingDANCE Emerging Writers Fellowship for her scholarly and creative work.

Old North Baptist Church records dating back to Texas Republic days were recently donated to the East Texas Research Center at Stephen F. Austin State University by the Summers and Middlebrook families of Nacogdoches. Hollis Middlebrook, center, daughter of the late Dr. Tom Middlebrook and donating representative of the Middlebrook and Summers families, reviews the documents with Kyle Ainsworth, right, ETRC special collections librarian.

The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship awarded Stephen F. Austin State University’s Arnold Center for Entrepreneurship and the Nelson Rusche College of Business’ entrepreneurship academic program the Model Emerging Program Award, distinguishing them as the national gold standard for entrepreneurship programs established within the past three years. Pictured, from left, are Dr. Hollie Gammel Smith, ACE executive director of community partnerships; Dr. Raymond Jones, director of SFA’s entrepreneurship academic program; and Matt Smilor, ACE director, accepting the award. 

Callie Lynn, a Stephen F. Austin State University biology graduate student from Rusk, represented SFA at the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools’ Three Minute Thesis Competition Feb. 19-20 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Under the guidance of Dr. Jason Bruck, associate professor of biology at SFA, Lynn presented “The Dolphin Cocktail Party Effect: Did You Whistle My Name?” She competed against 66 master’s and doctoral students from across the southern region, earning a place among the 12 finalists. The 3MT competition challenges graduate students to communicate the significance of their research in just three minutes using a single static slide while emphasizing clarity, impact and accessibility to a broad audience.