NACOGDOCHES - The great chamber works for strings and piano by Dmitry Shostakovich will be celebrated in a two-day festival in March at Stephen F. Austin State University designed to benefit the Saslav Strings Scholarship.

Two members of the renowned St. Petersberg String Quartet will join SFA music faculty for the Shostakovich Festival with concerts to be presented at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 3, in Cole Concert Hall. The festival is a joint presentation of the SFA School of Music and the Friends of Music.

Dr. Brian P. Oswald

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The upcoming Stephen F. Austin State University Regents Lecture by Dr. Brian P. Oswald, the Joe E. Denman Distinguished Professor of Forestry in the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, will focus on the growing wildfire problem in The Netherlands.

NACOGDOCHES - The inside story of "a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics" is the topic of the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art's presentation of the film "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" at 7 p.m. Friday, March 1, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - More than 11,800 students are enrolled in classes at Stephen F. Austin State University this spring, a decrease of less than 1 percent from one year ago.

Visiting professor Dr. Maria Grenfell from Tasmania instructs music composition student Stephen Bonilla while teaching this semester at SFA.

NACOGDOCHES - The exchange program between Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music and the University of Tasmania Conservatorium of Music is proving to be a win-win collaboration for everyone lucky enough to find themselves involved.

NACOGDOCHES - The Piney Woods Camerata, a conductor-less string ensemble composed of Stephen F. Austin State University music faculty members Jennifer Dalmas (violin) and Evgeni Raychev (cello) and select SFA string students, will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

The Piney Woods Camerata is concluding a six-year dedicated project of promoting the music from the Baroque and Classical periods with special emphasis on the concerti grossi written by Italian Baroque composer Arcangello Corelli, according to Raychev.

NACOGDOCHES - The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre will present the student-directed production of "WASP" by comedian Steve Martin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, in the Downstage Theatre in the Griffith Fine Arts Building on the SFA campus.

The one-act play will be directed by Mesquite senior John Lisi.

"'WASP' is an absurd comedy that presents Steve Martin's view of the traditional culture of White Anglo-Saxon Protestants," Lisi said.

Acclaimed percussionist Christopher Deane will perform with SFA students in a recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES - Christopher Deane, associate professor of percussion at the University of North Texas, will perform with the SFA Percussion Ensemble in a recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, in Cole Concert Hall on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University.

Volunteers with Generation TX are preparing to assist high school seniors and their families with filling out financial aid applications at the Judy B. McDonald Public Library. Pictured, from left, are Dewilyn Lowe, Lauren McDaniel, Colleen Weber and Shelby Smith.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Information about attending college, the financial aid process and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid will be available during Financial Aid Saturday from 10 a.m.

SFA students work to beautify Pecan Park as part of last year's The BIG Event. Job request forms are still being accepted for this year's day of service on Saturday, March 23.

Job requests are still being accepted for The BIG Event, Stephen F. Austin State University's largest one-day service project, on Saturday, March 23.