The Southern Arkansas University undergraduate commencement tonight has been moved to the W.T. Watson Athletic Center (gym) due to inclement weather, and will be divided into two ceremonies:                 7 p.m.                   College of Business                               College of Education 8:30 p.m.             College of Liberal and Performing Arts                               College of Science and Technology   The graduates… Read More

Whitney Gass, criminal justice instructor, and Dr. Deborah Wilson, assistant professor of psychology, accompanied by Alaina Atkinson, graduate assistant in the School of Graduate Studies, and Linley Crisp, senior criminal justice major, attended the Arkansas Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ACADV) workshop “Stalking: Know It, Name It, Stop It.” The workshop was part of the ACADV’s… Read More

February 27, 2013 Dr. Yonghu Dai, associate professor of Spanish, recently published a book of translation called “Anthology of Short Stories by Ruben Dario.” The book was published by Lijiang Publishing House (Guilin, China) in January. It belongs to the series of “Famous Authors Famous Translators.” Comprising of 56 short stories, it is considered the… Read More

Southern Arkansas University’s 2012 feature promotional video, “Mulerider Style,” was awarded “Best in Show” honors in the 10th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards. The video, directed and produced by SAU’s Department of Communications Director Aaron Street and videographer Michael Kornegay, a senior digital media production major from Hot Springs, features SAU students, athletes, faculty and… Read More

Dr. Sara Day’s book Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Fiction will be published in 2013 by the University Press of Mississippi. Dr. Day also had an article accepted for publication: “Pure Passion: The ‘Twilight’ Saga, ‘Abstinence Porn,’ and Adolescent Women’s Fan Fiction.” Her article will appear in the Children’s… Read More

The Southern Arkansas University Bruce Center has been abuzz with activity since Chick-Fil-A’s long-awaited grand opening and ribbon cutting on Oct. 30. Students and community members alike have lined up to choose from the delicious options on the limited menu. Preceded by the opening of Subway on campus and followed shortly thereafter with the opening… Read More

Dr. Abdel Bachri, along with a UALR astronomer Dr. Marc Seigar secured funding from NASA for a Collaborative Research Grant. The goal of the proposed research is to use the density profiles of certain galaxies dark matter halos to constrain the nature of the dark matter particles. Dark Matter accounts for about 25% of the… Read More