Since he was just a toddler, Addison Ochs seems to have had his life’s destiny laid out for him with the destination clearly being around water. He found the right start to be in South Arkansas. Ochs inherited a love of scuba diving and practically grew up on the campus of Southern Arkansas University. Add… Read More
Food and agri advocate speaking at SAU Feb. 11
J.J. Jones of The Center for Food Integrity in Gladstone, Missouri, will present “A New Conversation About Food…Why it is needed?” at Southern Arkansas University’s Foundation Hall at 7 p.m. on February 11, 2016. The public is invited to attend this free event. A “product of Northwest Kansas,” Jones has enjoyed a career in agricultural… Read More
Sturgis Auditorium dedication at SAU Jan. 8
Southern Arkansas University is hosting a dedication ceremony of the Sturgis Auditorium at the Wharton Nursing Building at 11 a.m. on Friday, January 8, 2016. The public is welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served. This event is recognizing the generous gift of $40,000 by the Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable and Educational Trust…. Read More
Nursing student helps more because of support
Thanks to local support, a nursing student’s philanthropy mission to aid the homeless far exceeded her goals. Southern Arkansas University senior BSN student Holly Yeager, of El Dorado, is the Projects Manager for the SAU Student Nurses Association. She hoped over the fall semester to complete 100 care packages for the homeless to have this… Read More
Aerojet Rocketdyne completes $40,000 donation to SAU Engineering
GenCorp Foundation, the philanthropic arm of GenCorp and its subsidiary company Aerojet Rocketdyne of Camden, recently invested $20,000 in the Engineering program at Southern Arkansas University, completing a $40,000 overall donation. The College of Science and Engineering plans to purchase equipment for testing the tensile stress and compressive strength of different materials for use in… Read More
SAU three-peats in regional engineering/physics competition
For the third straight year, Southern Arkansas University Engineering/Physics students have taken the top titles at the highly competitive annual Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Research Conference. At this year’s conference, held November 6-7 in Fayetteville, there were 170 total oral and poster presentations from various institutions across Arkansas and other neighboring… Read More
Taylor McNeel of Arkansas grateful to serve as National FFA President
With a raspy voice and between coughing spells, a tired but excited Taylor McNeel is thankful to God and to all those who invested in her life for the opportunity to serve as the National President of FFA and the organization’s more than 610,000 members. McNeel, a junior Agriculture Business student at Southern Arkansas University,… Read More
Boo in the Barnyard a safe, fun and free event
The sixth annual Boo in the Barnyard is set to start at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 29, in front of the Southern Arkansas University Agriculture Center. The public is invited to attend this safe and fun Halloween event, which will offer a petting zoo, face painting, lots of games with candy prizes, photos with… Read More
SAU Engineering students win research award
Southern Arkansas University Engineering students recently earned a second place finish for a poster presentation on biofuel research at a regional conference of the American Society for Engineering Education in Springfield, Missouri. SAU Engineering presented three research posters at the conference, and the winning work was titled “Making Biofuel to Run on a Mini Gas… Read More
$280,000 USDA grant to promote high-paying and in-demand agri careers
The agriculture departments at Southern Arkansas University and the University of Arkansas are teaming up to take on science’s “elephant in the room,” declining numbers of agriculture students and more and more mouths to feed on earth. “The number of farm-reared students has declined greatly while high-paying agriculture careers in Arkansas and beyond have steadily… Read More
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