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 "Cutie and the Boxer" at 7 p.m. Friday, July 11, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

Stephen Davis, junior theatre major from Baytown, assists Sam Smith, director of student services at SFA, in putting up banners and flags to promote the SFA SummerStage Festival, which runs June 28 through July 18.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The lineup of summer shows by the Stephen F.

Rehearsing combat choreography for the scuffle in the Maycomb town jail in "To Kill A Mockingbird" are SFA theatre students, from left, Joshua Wallace, senior from Van as Atticus Finch; Bianca Stein, senior from Brenham as Scout Finch; and Bruce Moran, sophomore from Lake Jackson as a lynch mob member.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - From late May through the end of June each year, Stephen F.

SFA mass media students visited the L.A. Observatory while participating in a unique "Meet the Media" class during Maymester. Students pictured, from left, are Gracy Kheshtinejad, Christine Reyes, Joey Stepniewski, Gabrielle Wesley, Thomas Martin, Iris Rios, Touré McCoy, Jordan Allen, Phyllis, Alicia Sanders, Kasi Dickerson, Alex Bellini and Robbie Key. Photo by Dr. John Allen Hendricks.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - A group of Stephen F.

An increasingly crowded world has spilled over into the Texas Southern High Plains, and the effects are contributing to population declines of a small bird that relies on the region's saline lakes for survival.

The snowy plover, a shorebird about six inches in length, uses regional saline lakes for nesting and as stopover habitats during migration. Drought, groundwater pumping for crop irrigation and increased rates of nest failures have all contributed to declines in this species during the past 15 years.

SFA environmental science graduate Marshal White '13 has moved to Swaziland, a small country in Southern Africa, where he is helping lead the extensive sustainability efforts of African Christian College.

White, a graduate of Lufkin High School, first attended Harding University in Searcy, Ark. There, he was working toward a degree in biology, but he "got tired of the microscope" and wanted to do something different. His father arranged a meeting between White and someone he knows at the college, and ACC took him on as an intern from August to December of 2010.