NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Pineywoods Camerata at Stephen F. Austin State University will perform Baroque music from Germany and Italy when faculty members and students present a recital at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, in Cole Concert Hall in the Wright Music Building on the SFA campus.
 
The Pineywoods Camerata is a string faculty-led, conductorless ensemble dedicated to performing Baroque works with an informed stylistic approach, according to Dr. Jennifer Dalmas, professor of violin at SFA and Camerata member. The group usually performs once each academic year.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – A distinctive twist in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play “Everybody” is that, at any given performance, any one of five different actors could play the title role, based on a lottery which also determines what roles will be played by the other four actors in that group.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the SFA Department of English and Creative Writing recently presented the exhibition “Re-Visions” as part of the Words of Art student organization-led collaborative event that offered contributors with publication and exhibition opportunities. SFA student organizations Subplots and Art Alliance facilitated the collaborative effort. Pictured at the exhibition’s opening reception are, from left, Dr. M. Dustin Knepp, dean, College of Liberal and Applied Arts; Dr.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Swingin’ Axes and Swingin’ Aces jazz bands at Stephen F. Austin State University will perform works by Mike Tamaro, Sammy Nestico, Alan Baylock and other jazz legends when the ensembles take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.
 
“This is the opening jazz ensemble concert of the spring 2023 semester and will feature some great standards in addition to more recent compositions for jazz ensemble,” said Dr. J.D. Salas, director of jazz studies at SFA and director of the Swingin’ Axes.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — With goals to emphasize cross-campus collaboration, Dr. Lee Furbeck was named Stephen F. Austin State University’s inaugural vice president of enrollment management and began her tenure in the position Monday.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Department of Kinesiology and Health Science have formed a partnership to educate all graduate-level athletic training students in critical issues relating to diversity and multicultural education. 
  

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University has entered a technology partnership with Devart, one of the leading developers of database management software, to provide dbForge Studio for Structured Query Language Server to students in the Rusche College of Business.

The dbForge Studio SQL Server’s integrated development environment helps users design databases, write SQL code, compare databases, synchronize schemas and data, and generate meaningful test data.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas –– One day after celebrating her fourth anniversary as Stephen F. Austin State University’s Equine Center supervisor, Cassandra Montesano received an unexpected phone call. 

On the other end of the call was Dr. Stephanie Jones, associate professor in the Department of Agriculture and director of SFA’s Equine Center, to inform Montesano of the news –– she had been named one of eight recipients of the university’s 2023 President’s Achievement Award. 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s Health and Wellness Hub is set for a grand opening at the end of the month that is the culmination of more than a year’s worth of collaboration among multiple departments and the university’s administration.

Scheduled for 2 p.m. Feb. 24, the event will celebrate the consolidation of six departments and services that used to work separately: Health Services, Counseling Services, Student Outreach and Support, the Lumberjack Food Pantry, Student Wellness and an on-campus contact for the Family Crisis Center of East Texas.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of History will host Gordon Williams, an award-winning writer, producer and director, for an event titled “Beaumont’s Black History — In Moving Pictures” at 6 p.m. Feb. 20 in the Baker Pattillo Student Center Theater. The presentation is part of the Robert S. Maxwell Lecture Series.