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SFA nursing graduates achieve 100-percent passing rate on state exams, faculty gears up for new facility


DeWitt School of Nursing clinical instructors Michelle Klein, left, and Cally Claussen demonstrate a new, life-like human simulator designed to give nursing students more realistic patient experiences.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas-December graduates of Stephen F.

Stone Fort Museum receives grant to restore historic gowns


Anna Kathryn Holbrook, 92, sits near a photograph of herself wearing her great-grandmother Anna Raguet Irion's wedding gown during the 1936 Centennial celebration.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas-The Stone Fort Museum at Stephen F. Austin State University has received an American Heritage Preservation Grant to help restore two deteriorating wedding dresses worn by historic Nacogdoches figures.

Standley named dean of graduate studies at SFA


Dr. James Standley

Long-time academic dean Dr. James Standley has been named dean of graduate studies at Stephen F. Austin State University.

SFA receives $1.5 million grant to develop Master Teaching Fellows in East Texas


NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The College of Sciences and Mathematics at Stephen F. Austin State University has received a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant to develop Master Teaching Fellows within five East Texas school districts.

Finkenberg named interim dean of education


Dr. Mel E. Finkenberg

Dr. Mel E. Finkenberg, professor and chair of the Department of Kinesiology and Health Science at Stephen F. Austin State University, has been named interim dean of the James I. Perkins College of Education effective July 1.

SFA band camps still accepting local students


NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Local middle and high school band students still have time to register for Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music's summer band camps held on the SFA campus.

Students entering seventh and eighth grades are eligible for the middle school camp to be held Sunday, June 7, through Friday, June 12, and students entering ninth through twelfth grades can register for the high school camp to be held Sunday, June 14, through Friday, June 19.

Nacogdoches Art League exhibition to open


Roger Hughes' ceramic vase won "Best in Show" in the 2008 Nacogdoches Art League Juried Art Exhibition. The 2009 show will open Friday, May 29, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Nacogdoches Art League will open its 39th annual juried exhibition at 6 p.m. Friday, May 29, in the Reavley Gallery of The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, 329 E. Main St. in Nacogdoches.

SFA exhibition of art collections to open at The Art Center


Cornel Rubino's untitled watercolor and ink on paper is one of the pieces to be included in "SFA Art Faculty Collections" which will open at 6 p.m. Friday, May 29, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts, School of Art and SFA Friends of the Visual Arts will open "SFA Art Faculty Collections" at 6 p.m.

SFA forestry professor receives Fulbright: Family plans Taiwan sabbatical


Dr. Theresa Coble, left, associate professor of forest recreation and interpretation, has received a Fulbright award to teach and conduct research in the Graduate Institute of Environmental Education at the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan, in Spring 2010. Her husband Dr.

Pineywoods Native Plant Center receives grant to provide programs for at-risk youth


NACOGDOCHES, Texas-Stephen F. Austin State University's Pineywoods Native Plant Center has received a grant from Texas Parks and Wildlife for "Nacogdoches Naturally," a program that offers outdoor education and recreational programming for underserved youth in the Nacogdoches area.

The $35,000 grant will support after-school and summer activities for at-risk youth, as well as weekend activities for the students and their families.

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