NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Puzzling looks situate on their faces as an unfamiliar teacher begins speaking Arabic. As words flow from her mouth, the students fall deeper into confusion. Scanning the worksheet, they see symbols that bear no meaning to them.

For a day, Stephen F. Austin State University students discovered what it was like being an English language learner, immigrant and refugee student during an immersive trip to Las Americas Middle School in Houston.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University Rusche College of Business graduate students in the Society for Advancement of Management recently placed first in the graduate division during the annual Council for Advancement and Support of Education competition held in Orlando, Florida. SFA’s undergraduate team finished third in its division.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free, one-night screening of "If You Build It" at 7 p.m. Friday, May 5, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

"If You Build It" follows designer-activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie County, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to help transform both their community and their lives.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Latin Lumberjacks ensemble at Stephen F. Austin State University will present a Cinco de Mayo concert from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, May 4, in the plaza outside the Baker Pattillo Student Center on the SFA campus.

The Latin Lumberjacks is comprised of members of the Sound Recording Technology program within the SFA School of Music. Directed by Luigi Lazareno, music faculty member, the group will perform a variety of classical and popular songs in salsa style.

Chris Turner, assistant professor in the SFA School of Music, will sing the role of Elijah when the combined choirs at SFA, the Orchestra of the Pines and music faculty soloists perform Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 5, in W.M. Turner Auditorium.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The combined choirs at Stephen F.

SFA's Department of Biology presents Dr. Michael Hitchcock as this year's speaker during the J.H. Burr Jr. Distinguished Lecture in Biology. Hitchcock will speak at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 28, in the Baker Pattillo Student Center's Twilight Ballroom.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin State University's Department of Biology will host the 28th J.H. Burr Jr. Distinguished Lecture in Biology at 7:30 p.m.

Horticulture media personality Brie Arthur will be the guest speaker for the SFA Gardens' monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series, slated for 7 p.m. May 11 in the Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin State University's SFA Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Nurses across the state now have access to an online family nurse practitioner program that will be offered this fall by Stephen F. Austin State University. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Board of Nursing recently approved the Master of Science in Nursing program.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Immersion is said to be one of the best ways to learn a language. Stephen F. Austin State University undergraduate students studying German are bringing that adage into the 21st century as they create virtual museums examining 20th-century German cultural history.