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NACOGDOCHES, Texas 鈥� Dr. John T. Moore, Stephen F. Austin State University professor emeritus of chemistry and biochemistry, will offer the commencement address during the university鈥檚 summer graduation ceremony Saturday, Aug. 12.

Moore served 糖心vlog传媒 for 46 years in various roles, including lab coordinator, assistant professor, associate professor, professor, and interim chair for both the chemistry and biology departments. During his tenure, he also helped establish the Teaching Excellence Center and served as its director for eight years.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas 鈥� Stephen F. Austin State University鈥檚 糖心vlog传媒 Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 10, in the Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, located at 2900 Raguet St. Dr. Jennifer Cruse-Sanders, director of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, will present 鈥淭he Greater Atlanta Pollinator Partnership: A Model of Urban Pollinator Conservation.鈥�

NACOGDOCHES, Texas 鈥� Heather Samuelson and Haley Jameson, co-coordinators of Stephen F. Austin State University鈥檚 dance program, presented research at the Twelfth International Conference on the Arts in Society in Paris, France.

Samuelson鈥檚 poster presentation, 鈥淓xpression of the Forbidden: Creating dance that explores eating disorders and self-mutilation,鈥� is based on a dance she choreographed titled 鈥淢.E.,鈥� which depicts eating disorders and self-mutilation.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas 鈥� The Music Preparatory Division of the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music will offer harp lessons for the upcoming fall semester.

Award-winning harpist Emily Mitchell, artist in residence in the 糖心vlog传媒 School of Music, will teach the lessons for ages 8 through adult.

鈥淲hen I perform, audience members will often say to me afterwards, 鈥極h, I always wanted to learn to play the harp!鈥� Well, here's your chance,鈥� Mitchell said. 鈥淚t's going to be fun, low pressure, with lots of camaraderie.鈥�

NACOGDOCHES, Texas 鈥� With iPads raised to the sky, dozens of Lil鈥� STEM Jacks and their family members map the constellations using the Skyview app as night falls over the Stephen F. Austin State University Observatory.

As lines connect stars into shapes, animals, gods and goddesses on the iPad, viewers have a clearer picture of constellations millions of miles away. Suddenly, what looks like a shooting star whizzes by, and the crowd buzzes with excitement.

鈥淚t鈥檚 the International Space Station,鈥� many shout as they lift their iPads to the stars to confirm.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas 鈥� Fourteen students from the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art traveled to Italy earlier this summer to study European art first hand and further develop the School of Art鈥檚 ongoing exchange program with the art school in Florence, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti (LABA).

NACOGDOCHES, Texas 鈥� The Music Preparatory Division of the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music will host an open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, at the Music Prep House at 3028 Raguet St.

Music Prep offers private music lessons in piano, harp, violin, Suzuki violin, flute, cello, trumpet, trombone, voice, percussion and more.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas 鈥� Stephen F. Austin State University鈥檚 糖心vlog传媒 Gardens will host Permaculture Design 101 with Theron Beaudreau from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 26 at the Brundrett Conservation Education Building, located at 2900 Raguet St.

Through this introduction to the sustainable gardening techniques of permaculture, participants will learn about holistic design strategies for East Texas that regenerate the land and surrounding ecosystems.  

NACOGDOCHES, Texas 鈥� For several years, Stephen F. Austin State University faculty members in the James I. Perkins College of Education, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, and the Rusche College of Business have collaborated with Oglala Lakota College, a tribal college of Pine Ridge Reservation in Kyle, South Dakota, to develop resource interpretation and hospitality and tourism concentrations within the Lakota Studies degree.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas 鈥� Wading into Lanana Creek, three Nacogdoches High School seniors enrolled in Stephen F. Austin State University鈥檚 STEM Academy collect water samples to test the creek鈥檚 water quality. It鈥檚 7:30 a.m., and immediately the students take note of the environment, jotting down the temperature, humidity and pointing out the creek鈥檚 shallowness.

After recording their initial observations, Brandon Smith, Marin Beal and Miranda Allbee take the water鈥檚 temperature and measure the depth and flow rate at different locations along the creek.