Final beam to be installed for Agriculture Center

Agri Beam

Southern Arkansas University’s new Agriculture Center is beginning to take shape as work began this week to set the structure’s steel skeleton into place. The final piece of the steel skeleton will be placed at approximately 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 10. No ceremony will take place, but interested persons are invited to come to the [...]

Groundbreaking planned for Agriculture Center

Southern Arkansas University officials will break ground for the new Agriculture Center at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 8. The ceremony will take place at the construction site just north of the University Science Center. A light lunch will be served. The Agriculture Center is a two story academic building designed to accommodate the ever-increasing [...]

Dr. Scott McKay named Science and Technology dean

Scott McKay

MAGNOLIA – Dr. Scott McKay has been named dean of the College of Science and Technology at Southern Arkansas University. McKay came to SAU from the University of Central Missouri where he served as chairman of the Department of Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Physics. He was also the founder and director of UCMO’s Center for Alternative [...]

SAU Trustees approve $6.5 million bond issue for Agriculture Center

MAGNOLIA – Construction of a new Agriculture Center at Southern Arkansas University is one step closer to reality after the SAU System Board of Trustees gave administrators the green light for a $6.5 million bond issue for the project. The vote came during the trustees’ quarterly meeting on Thursday at the SAU Tech campus in [...]

SAU receives $2 million gift from Magnolia couple

Therral and Jan Story, center, present a check for $2 million to Dr. David Rankin, the SAU rodeo team, and other administrators.

MAGNOLIA – Construction of a new rodeo arena at Southern Arkansas University is much closer to reality after a $2 million donation from Therral and Jan Story of Magnolia. The gift, made through the SAU Foundation, is the largest ever received by the University from an individual donor. “Through their extraordinary generosity, Therral and Jan [...]

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