MAGNOLIA—The American Association of Colleges and Universities has named Southern Arkansas University as the recipient of a $2,125 grant for students to study civic involvement.
Dr. Chrisanne Christensen, associate professor of Psychology at SAU, said she wrote a grant proposal after informally surveying students in three upper level psychology classes about what they considered to be
Mae M. Ngai, professor of history at Columbia University, will deliver the annual Robert B. Walz Lecture 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20 at the Foundation Hall in the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center on the Southern Arkansas University campus. Dr
MAGNOLIA—Whether a person finds writing a joy or joyless, the Writing Center at Southern Arkansas University is open for business and students trained to meet your needs as a writer are ready to help.
The center, located on the first floor of the library in Magale 101, provides face-to-face assistance for students with any number of
MAGNOLIA—Frank Byers, a Southern Arkansas University student and past participant in American Idol, is going to open for soul legend Percy Sledge in Springhill, Louisiana on September 15.
The show begins with Byers at 6 p.m. with Sledge following at 7 p.m. The show
MAGNOLIA—Four students from Southern Arkansas University who are studying Foreign Languages spent a month of their summers far from southeast Arkansas.
Amanda Anderson, who is pursuing teaching; Laquita Houston, a double major in business and Spanish; and Martha Walker, a double major in Spanish and history, visited Cuernavaca, Mexico near Mexico City. Elcia Olivo, who is
The College of Liberal and Performing Arts at Southern Arkansas University has chosen Dr. Ben Johnson as its new dean.
Johnson, a native West Texan, began his position with Southern Arkansas University in 2001 as a professor of history. In addition to
Five faculty members at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, were recently honored with awards from the University. Those receiving awards were Dr. Elba Birminghan-Pokorny, Dr. Tim Schroeder, Viktoriya Black, Dr. Richard Ambler, and Dr. Kathryn Benson.
Dr. Elba Birmingham-Pokorny, a member of the SAU faculty since 1990, was chosen as Honor Professor at the University. She is
Scotland Stout, an associate professor of art at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, will chair a “Visual Art that is Written” session during the Fall 2007 semester at the SECAC Annual Conference, October 17-20, in Charleston, West Virginia.
During the session, Stout will discuss the benefits and restrictions that words impose when used compositionally in art, as
Dr. Linda Tucker, assistant professor of English in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, recently had her book, Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture, published by the University Press of Mississippi.
Tucker’s book examines popular culture’s reliance on long-standing stereotypes of black men as animalistic, hypersexual
The Arkansas Archeological Society will present Arkansas Rock Art at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13, in room 104 of the Bruce Center located on the campus of Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia.
The guest speaker will be Jerry Hilliard, a research associate with the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Research Station of the Arkansas Archeological Survey
