NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Four students from the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music will be the featured soloists during the SFA Symphony Orchestra's annual Concerto/Aria Winners concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

Each fall, SFA music students enter the School of Music's annual competition, and the finalists have the unique opportunity of performing with a full orchestra, explained Gene H. Moon, director of orchestral activities at SFA and the Symphony Orchestra's director.

Doris and Jack Ledbetter, seated, with Doris and Dr. Andrew Parr

Doris and Jack Ledbetter, seated, recently hosted a fund-raiser in their home that brought in over $9,000 in scholarship funds for Stephen F. Austin State University piano students. Pictured with the Ledbetters are Linda and Dr. Andrew Parr, two of the SFA piano faculty performers. Other faculty performers were Dr. Mario Ajero, Mary Cooper, James Faucett, Dr. Gene Moon, Dr.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas-The Texas Education Agency and Texas GEAR UP program have named Stephen F. Austin State University's e-mentoring program a Texas GEAR UP Promising Practice, so that it may serve as an example for up-and-coming programs statewide.

Secondary education majors at SFA participate in the e-mentoring program, which pairs the future educators with high school students in rural East Texas who may not realize college is an option for them.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Area 6- to 12-year-olds may register for an art class offered by the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, 329 E. Main Street in downtown Nacogdoches, as part of the Creative Art Saturday program.

Participants will create nature photo prints under the supervision of Dr. Marsha Blount, SFA assistant professor of art; Matthew Sutherlin, SFA instructor of art; and SFA art education majors.

The Stone Fort Museum will launch the El Camino Real de los Tejas Heritage Education Project with a weekend workshop for heritage resource practitioners March 7-8 at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Designated as a National Historic Trail in 2004, the "King's Highway" - now Texas Highway 21 - has existed for more than 300 years. Workshop participants will be provided with a broad spectrum of information on the trail and tools for incorporating the information into interpretive programs related to the El Camino Real.

Operating hours at the Ralph W. Steen Library at Stephen F. Austin State University will change in observance of the school's spring break. On Friday, March 13, the library will be open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The library will be closed from March 14, to March 21.

Normal operating hours will resume on Sunday, March 22, at noon.

Students from Stephen F. Austin State University conduct research at the historic Zion Hill Cemetery near downtown Nacogdoches. A model cemetery-interpretation program is being created for Zion Hill and nearby Oak Grove Cemetery through a "Preserve America" grant from the National Park Service.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas -- Collaboration between the City of Nacogdoches and Stephen F.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - As part of its monthly film series, the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art will present a free one-night screening of "Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids" at 8 p.m. Friday, March 6, in the Ledbetter Gallery of The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, 329 E. Main St. in downtown Nacogdoches.

NACOGDOCHES, Tex.-The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Social Work will celebrate its 30-year anniversary with a daylong celebration on March 6. The event also will launch the Legacy Campaign, a new fundraising initiative designed to help recruit and retain students to meet the state's need for social workers.

Sean Fitzpatrick and Margaret Lewis

Stephen F. Austin State University theatre students Sean Fitzpatrick and Margaret Lewis rehearse a scene from Bernard Pomerance's "The Elephant Man" that continues tonight through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in W.M. Turner Auditorium. Fitzpatrick, a senior from Tulsa, Okla., plays Dr.