NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Scientists and science students from universities across the nation will soon be wearing T-shirts designed by Lumberjacks.

Stephen F. Austin State University students won the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s national T-shirt design contest. T-shirts with the design will be sold at the society’s 2018 annual Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego in April.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University is one of the safest colleges in America, according to a recent report from the National Council for Home Safety and Security.

The council, a trade association comprising home security professionals across the U.S., based its report on data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting and the Campus Safety Security Survey.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — More than four hundred high school students attended Stephen F. Austin State University’s seventh annual STEM Day Friday, exploring different areas of STEM through interactive faculty-led sessions, two STEM student panels and a physics magic show.

Students chose between twenty-three different sessions covering a wide variety of subjects, including chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics, forestry and health science.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The College of Fine Arts at Stephen F. Austin State University has canceled all public performances scheduled for the remainder of the spring semester in response to SFA’s decision to cancel or postpone all on-campus programs, gatherings and events until further notice due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Several graduate students and faculty members from Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of Geology recently attended the North American Prospect Exhibition Summit in Houston. The annual event provides oil and gas professionals the opportunity to network and market industry advances.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The College of Fine Arts and School of Music at Stephen F. Austin State University will present a guest recital featuring Craig Morris, trumpet, and Rebecca Wilt, piano, at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 3, in Cole Concert Hall.

The performance is part of the School of Music’s Calliope Concert Series.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Dr. Jennifer Newquist, assistant professor in Stephen F. Austin State University’s School of Human Sciences, received the Lane Powell Mentorship Award at the Texas Council on Family Relations annual conference on March 5 in Houston.

Newquist was nominated by Jaycie Case, a graduate student from Aledo in SFA’s human development and family studies program in the James I. Perkins College of Education.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Collaboration among university departments and programs sounds like a good thing. Faculty members and students working together across disciplines and learning from each other creates better opportunity for all.

But in reality, cross-discipline collaboration can be hard. Departments establish routines and schedules that can make it difficult to align with other programs. For example, in most cases, theatre rehearsals take place in the evening, while music rehearsals happen during the day, followed by performances in the evening.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Fans of music made popular over the past 70 years won’t want to miss the fourth installment of the concert series “Broadway, Movies and Classics” presented by Stephen F. Austin State University’s Orchestra of the Pines at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 5, in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus.

The program will take audiences through generations of music with the tunes of popular artists such as Journey, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Paul Simon and much more, according to Dr. Gene H. Moon, director of orchestras at SFA and of the Orchestra of the Pines.