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NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and School of Music will present Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15, and at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 16, in Cole Concert Hall in the Wright Music Building on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ campus.

"Amahl and the Night Visitors," a 45-minute Christmas opera performed in English, has delighted audiences since its television premiere in 1951. The Three Kings, on their search for the Christ Child, stop for the night at the home of a widow and her young, disabled son.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Members of the Student Association of Nutrition and Dietetics at Stephen F. Austin State University have created a cookbook, "The Lumberjack's Guide to Whole Food Cooking," and are offering it for sale to help benefit a local food bank.

SAND is an Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ student organization comprising about 30 members who are aspiring food, nutrition and dietetics professionals devoted to changing people's health through eating wholesome, unprocessed meals.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Who said math couldn't be fun? Certainly not the early childhood through sixth grade elementary education online teacher candidates at Stephen F. Austin State University, who used games and interactive stations to put a twist on math curriculum.

Recently, teacher candidates from across Texas, who are enrolled in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's EC-6 online early elementary education field experience II and mathematics methodology courses, hosted a math career carnival for fourth and fifth grade students enrolled at Brooks-Quinn-Jones Elementary School in Nacogdoches.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - U.S. Army Capt. Caitlin Moore, a 2010 graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University's Bachelor of Science in forestry program, has received the distinguished honor of participating in the 75th National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Commemoration held in Hawaii.

Moore, who is serving in the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, will lay a memorial wreath honoring U.S. Army service members who lost their lives during the attack on Pearl Harbor, which took place Dec. 7, 1941.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Four Stephen F. Austin State University donors will be honored during the 28th annual Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Gala Saturday, Dec. 10, in the Baker Pattillo Student Center Grand Ballroom.

This year's Gala honorees include Elvin "Buddy" and Tommie Jan Lowery, Mattress Firm, the Bone Hill Foundation, and Kathy and Robert Lehmann.

Recently, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ students in the Rusche College of Business hosted an on-campus event to help educate attendees about violent extremism as part of a worldwide collegiate competition.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ students in Marketing 352: Advertising and Promotion have been gathering primary research and building a marketing campaign using social media for the Peer to Peer: Challenging Extremism competition since the beginning of the fall semester.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - State Rep. and Stephen F. Austin State University alumnus Jason Isaac will offer the commencement address during Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's fall graduation ceremonies Saturday, Dec. 17.

Isaac graduated Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1996 with a major in marketing and a minor in management. He met his wife, Carrie, in a history class at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, and the couple married a few years after graduation. During his time at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, Isaac founded the university's lacrosse team, which is still active today, and he was president of the Association of Sports Clubs.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin State University senior Lauren Kelley, of Lufkin, received the Olds Family Outstanding Student Teacher Award, which honors an exemplary student teacher from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's Department of Elementary Education each semester.

University field supervisor Barbara Morrison nominated Kelley for this honor, and a committee of six Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ elementary education faculty members, who reviewed teaching videos and additional materials, selected her to receive the award.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin State University students in the School of Human Sciences are participating in the annual Chairished Blessings fundraiser, which will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Feb. 10, 2017, at the Nacogdoches County Civic Center.

This event will benefit Love In the Name of Christ, a nonprofit Christian organization in Nacogdoches dedicated to serving local citizens in need. Chairished Blessings will feature dinner, a silent auction and a design competition.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Center for Regional Heritage Research at Stephen F. Austin State University has successfully scanned and modeled in 3-D more than 400 Native American ceramics as part of a $39,600 grant awarded in 2014 by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.