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Deadline for Youth Writing Festival at Southern Arkansas University approaching soon

The Department of English and Foreign Languages of Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, will host the annual Youth Writing Festival on Saturday, April 11, 2009. Deadline for entries is March 11, 2009. The festival, which is held every spring, has grown from 345 entries in 1995 to 1,153 entries last year. Students from schools across south… Read More

Former Murphy Oil Corporation CEO to speak at Southern Arkansas University

Former Murphy Oil Corporation CEO to speak at Southern Arkansas Universityaiborne P. Deming, retired president and CEO of Murphy Oil Corporation headquartered in El Dorado, Arkansas, will speak at Southern Arkansas University at 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, February, 18 in Business 208 in the Business Agri-Business building. Deming, 54, retired from the company in December 2008…. Read More

Southern Arkansas University Emerging Writers Club hosts a poetry reading

Southern Arkansas University Emerging Writers Club will host a poetry reading with alumna Donika Ross from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, March 5 in the Magnolia Room of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center. The public is welcome to attend. Ross, who graduated from SAU in 2005, was named one of the… Read More

The Rosemary Rhea Regional Arts in Education Center and Gallery Presents Laurie Hicks and Her Panther Painters and Sculptors Art Exhibit

The Rosemary Rhea Regional Arts in Education Center and Galley, Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia will open an Exhibition, “Art, the Balance of Life” on February 6, 2009. The exhibit will include a variety of works from Magnolia High School art instructor Laurie Hicks and her students known as the Magnolia Panther Painters and Sculptors. The… Read More

Professor David Ashby Selected to Serve On the Council of Examinations

Dr. David Ashby, CFP®, CPA, the Peoples Bank Professor of Finance at Southern Arkansas University, has been appointed by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards to serve a three year term on the Council on Examinations. The Council on Examinations is responsible for the CFP® Certification Examination. Generally, individuals selected to serve on the… Read More

Southern Arkansas University Foreign Language Students Have A Host Of Activities Planned This Spring

Southern Arkansas University students have many upcoming events to keep their minds focused on foreign languages this spring. Students will read poetry from all languages taught at SAU—Chinese, Russian, French and Spanish at a poetry reading at 6:30 p.m., February 19 in Wilson. On February 28, SAU will host the South Arkansas Foreign Language Alliance… Read More

Southern Arkansas University Spanish students can have conversations and coffee in Spanish Cafe

Spanish students at Southern Arkansas University who need help speaking to a native Spanish speaker, they can always head over to the Spanish café, where they can have a casual conversation over a cup of coffee. According to Dr. Elba Birmingham—Pokorny, a Spanish professor at SAU, the Spanish Café, located in Wilson 327 was created… Read More

SAU hosts Chinese delegation from Guizhou Normal University

Southern Arkansas University played host in December to six delegates from Guizhou Normal University (GZNU) in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province in southwest China. The purpose of the visit was to sign an agreement between the two universities to develop a future exchange program for students. This is expected to happen within about a… Read More

“All in the Timing,” to be presented at Southern Arkansas University December 2, 3 and 4

MAGNOLIA–“All in the Timing” by David Ives will be performed at 7 p.m. on December 2, 3 and 4 at Southern Arkansas University’s Harton Theatre. Ticket prices are $3 for students, faculty and staff and $5 for general admission. Tickets may be purchased at the door. Ives’s collection of six one-acts is a comedic rollercoaster… Read More

SAU to sponsor Wharton Nursing Building dedication

MAGNOLIA–Southern Arkansas University will dedicate the Wharton Nursing Building addition and renovation project from 11 a.m. to noon, Monday, December 1, in classroom 244. Keynote remarks will be made by U.S. Congressman Mike Ross. Dr. Bernadette Fincher, Chair of the SAU Department of Nursing, said the expansion comes at a good time as there is… Read More

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