NACOGDOCHES, Texas –– Dr. Philip Catton, professor in Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of History, traded his American classroom for the bustling streets and serene lotus flowers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on a teaching adventure he couldn’t pass up.

What could only be described as a unique and rare opportunity in the teaching profession, Catton taught two courses in U.S. diplomatic history and the Vietnam War as a visiting professor at Fulbright University Vietnam during the spring semester.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas –– Sherry Williford, retired instructor in Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of Mass Communication and longtime advisor of KSAU-FM — now KAXM-FM Radio — has been named Broadcast Educator of the Year by the Texas Association of Broadcasters.

Williford will receive the award, which recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of outstanding leaders in the broadcasting field, during the TAB conference Aug. 8 in Round Rock.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Lance Treviño, Stephen F. Austin State University graduate and music faculty member, has been invited to join the Recording Academy, the organization responsible for the Grammy Awards.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – An exhibition of work by Shaun Roberts, associate professor of art at Stephen F. Austin State University and painting area coordinator, is showing through Aug. 7 at Gallery Main Street, Tyler. The exhibition was selected by Glasstire, the oldest online art magazine in the country dedicated to promoting visual arts in Texas, as one of its Top Five Art Events for the week of July 18.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Flying airplane-like drones closely over the blowhole of a dolphin and collecting their breath is a new, innovative way for researchers to monitor the health of whales, dolphins and porpoises. This summer at Dolphin Quest on the Big Island of Hawaii, two Stephen F. Austin State University biology students got to be part of this groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind research.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s SFA Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. July 11 in the Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, located at 2900 Raguet St.

Dr. Tina Marie (Waliczek) Cade, professor of horticulture in the Department of Agriculture at Texas State University, will present “Plants and People — Gardens and Gardeners Making a Difference.”

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s Rusche College of Business has successfully achieved the extension of its accreditation by AACSB International — the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Globally, only 6% of business colleges have achieved accreditation by AACSB, which places SFA’s Rusche College of Business in an elite category of business colleges worldwide.