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Stephen Davis, junior theatre major from Baytown, assists Sam Smith, director of student services at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, in putting up banners and flags to promote the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ SummerStage Festival, which runs June 28 through July 18.NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The lineup of summer shows by the Stephen F.
This last artwork by beloved Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ art professor Gary Frields, created before his death last year, will be featured in a special auction during the annual 12X12 fundraiser presented by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Friends of the Visual Arts. Silent auction bidding on other pieces begins July 2, and the party/sale is at 6 p.m.
Rehearsing combat choreography for the scuffle in the Maycomb town jail in "To Kill A Mockingbird" are Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ theatre students, from left, Joshua Wallace, senior from Van as Atticus Finch; Bianca Stein, senior from Brenham as Scout Finch; and Bruce Moran, sophomore from Lake Jackson as a lynch mob member.NACOGDOCHES, Texas - From late May through the end of June each year, Stephen F.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ mass media students visited the L.A. Observatory while participating in a unique "Meet the Media" class during Maymester. Students pictured, from left, are Gracy Kheshtinejad, Christine Reyes, Joey Stepniewski, Gabrielle Wesley, Thomas Martin, Iris Rios, Touré McCoy, Jordan Allen, Phyllis, Alicia Sanders, Kasi Dickerson, Alex Bellini and Robbie Key. Photo by Dr. John Allen Hendricks.NACOGDOCHES, Texas - A group of Stephen F.
Left: The Best of Show award in the 2013 NAL show went to Charlotte Hamilton for "Mother and Child." Right: The photograph "Cranes" by Connie Thompson was awarded Best of Show at the 2013 NPA annual juried show. The 2014 Best of Show winners will be announced at the opening reception of this year's shows at 6 p.m.
Several new rain gardens at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's Pineywoods Native Plant Center will improve the quality of water entering Lanana Creek during heavy rainfall.An increasingly crowded world has spilled over into the Texas Southern High Plains, and the effects are contributing to population declines of a small bird that relies on the region's saline lakes for survival.
The snowy plover, a shorebird about six inches in length, uses regional saline lakes for nesting and as stopover habitats during migration. Drought, groundwater pumping for crop irrigation and increased rates of nest failures have all contributed to declines in this species during the past 15 years.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ environmental science graduate Marshal White '13 has moved to Swaziland, a small country in Southern Africa, where he is helping lead the extensive sustainability efforts of African Christian College.
White, a graduate of Lufkin High School, first attended Harding University in Searcy, Ark. There, he was working toward a degree in biology, but he "got tired of the microscope" and wanted to do something different. His father arranged a meeting between White and someone he knows at the college, and ACC took him on as an intern from August to December of 2010.
Pictured, from left, are Mike Midgley, ACC vice president of instruction; Charles Quinn, ACC dean of business studies; Carolyn Hardy, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ admissions assistant director; Dr. Mary Olle, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ assistant professor human sciences; Dr. Chay Runnels, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ assistant professor and coordinator of the Hospitality Administration program; Dr. Richard Rhodes, ACC president/CEO; Dr. Baker Pattillo, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ president; Dr. Lynda Martin, director of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ School of Human Sciences; and Dr.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ student Molly Dyer, a senior from Copperas Cove, howls a battle cry as the character "Rinalda, the mad minstrel" in the School of Theatre's sound lab during a recording of the radio play "The Phoenix on the Sword."NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Students in the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre are trained to be stage actors in addition to stage managers, technical directors and costume, lighting and sound designers.