NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University students were among the first-, second- and third-place winning teams at the American Advertising Federation-Houston Student Conference held Oct. 21 and 22 in Houston.

The federation is an association of advertising professionals encompassing all disciplines in the advertising, marketing and communications industries.

Twenty-three SFA students in the School of Art; Department of Management, Marketing and International Business; and Department of Mass Communication competed during the conference.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS – Members of the Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts Dean’s Circle recently recognized its 2016 award recipients at the annual Spotlight on the Arts and Winners’ Circle reception held in The Old Tobacco Warehouse in downtown Nacogdoches.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University biochemistry junior Carmel Tovar of San Antonio recently received an award for the best undergraduate poster in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s 2016 College of Science Research Conference held Oct. 7.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and School of Music will present the Stone Fort Wind Quintet performing a concert titled “Invitation to the Dance” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

Music selections for the program were based on the form of the Baroque instrumental dance suite, according to Charles Gavin, SFA professor of horn and chamber music and quintet member.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Stephen F. Austin State University’s Madrigal Singers will perform a fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

The SFA Madrigal Singers, under the direction of Dr. Tim King, director of choral activities in the SFA School of Music, is a highly select 16-voice ensemble comprised of members of the A Cappella Choir.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – A poetry reading by Nacogdoches’ prize-winning poets Judith and Ken Lauter will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

“Rembrandt and Vermeer – Two Dutch Painters as Seen by Two Nacogdoches Poets” will feature the Lauters reading from their books combining poems and paintings. Ken's book is “Vermeer in Words,” and Judith's is “Light from the Left; poems on paintings by Rembrandt.” Each poem will be accompanied by a full-size color slide of the painting it describes.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — A publication edited by Dr. Mark Sanders, Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of English and Creative Writing chair and professor, and published by the SFA Press recently won the 2016 Nebraska Book Awards competition in the anthology category.

“Receiving the award is a tremendous honor,” Sanders said. “My creative roots are in Nebraska and the Plains, so this award is an affirmation that I remain a part of that community and that my work in behalf of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and criticism relative to the region is still valuable.”

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Dr. Tim Clipson, professor in Stephen F. Austin State University’s Rusche College of Business, received the Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award at the Association for Business Communication international meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The association is an international, interdisciplinary organization committed to advancing business communication, research, education and practice, according to the ABC website.

Clipson has been an ABC member since 1981 and said it’s truly an honor to receive this award.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre’s presentation of Irish playwright Marina Carr’s “By the Bog of Cats” in the fall of 2016 is not coincidental, and it was not selected by its director on a whim.

Rather, 2016 happens to be the centennial year of the Easter Rising in Ireland, a short-lived but extremely significant revolt against British rule, which led eventually to the establishment of the Irish Free State.