Construction is underway for the region’s first rural simulation-based healthcare educational training center at Southern Arkansas University, and that is just one of many things the SAU Department of Nursing is excited about. The 1,920 square-foot SAU Health Science Simulation Center (HSSC) will provide the latest technologies in simulation equipment. Construction cost for the project… Read More
Research highlighted at SAU conference
Heather Zwicker will be the keynote speaker at 6 p.m. Friday, February 27, at Southern Arkansas University’s third Mid-south Undergraduate Research Conference at the SAU Reynolds Center. Cost is $10 to attend a reception at 5:30 p.m. and the following dinner and keynote address. The public is invited to attend. Deadline to purchase tickets is… Read More
Rutter a Marine and award-winning physics student
Barbara Rutter loves a challenge – not only has she excelled in one of the most challenging degree programs at Southern Arkansas University, she did it while serving what she dubs as the most difficult branch of the United States military. Rutter, of New Llano, La., is slated to graduate this December from SAU’s Physics… Read More
Dean Scott McKay honored for research on alternative fuels
Southern Arkansas University Dean of the College of Science and Technology Dr. Scott McKay was recently honored at the Ark-La-Tex 2013 Annual Achievement Awards for Excellence in Technology for his research and laboratory contributions to energy and fuels technology. McKay’s work was highlighted for its possibilities for pollution reduction and potential green effect consumption at… Read More
SAU Natural Resource Research Center hosting open house
The Natural Resource Research Center at Southern Arkansas University is hosting an open house on June 27, 2013. The event is open to the public. “We hope to forge additional collaborations with industry and local government, whether it is with city water systems or research and development projects with industry,” said Dr. Scott McKay, dean… Read More