Stovall has served as advisor of the Sylvans since 2012, and during that time, the team has won six of the past seven Southern Forestry Conclaves held each spring at universities across the southeastern U.S.

While the team’s wins often focus heavily on the physical events of the competition, the students' performance in the academic portion of the Conclave best reflect Stovall’s priorities as a professor and mentor.

Stovall was recently awarded a Bright Spot award by the SFA Faculty Senate, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and the SFA vice presidents in recognition for his work in creating an online, open-access textbook for use in his silviculture class.

“Our college has a three-pronged mission of education, research and outreach,” Stovall said. “By putting this information on a readily available website, it served to meet our teaching and outreach mission.” Not only is the textbook free, Stovall also provides students with the opportunity to contribute to the textbook.

“They don’t have to publish, but if they would like to, I help them edit and format the document for the website. They are then listed prominently as authors of that section.”

This is not the first instance Stovall has been recognized for his contributions to teaching. In 2018, he was one of seven faculty members recognized with an SFA Teaching Excellence Award. Stovall also maintains an open-access dendrology website full of tree identification resources for the region.

Poet Khaled Mattawa chose a selection from Henning’s manuscript of poems, “Terra Incognita,” for the 2019 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

“An elegiac spirit gifts these poems, their power, as well as the various turns of passionate declamation, restraint and the thoughtful search for solace,” Mattawa said about Henning's poetry. "We are quickly and powerfully drawn into the world of these poems and into the experiences of the speaker, and by the end of our reading we find that traces of these experiences have lodged themselves within us, changing us."

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The graduate research conference is scheduled from 1 to 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Steen Library.

Graduate students from disciplines across the university will share their innovative research strategies in panels and posters.

The conference is open to the university community.

The Office of International Programs is hosting the Cultural Experience to Trinidad and Tobago at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Ferguson Building, Room 479.

The Cultural Experience is a monthly presentation that allows SFA's international students to showcase their culture, food and daily living in their home country.

Trinbagonian students will share about their home country. Attendees will have an opportunity to speak with the students, eat Trinbagonian food and learn about daily life in Trinidad and Tobago.

The event is open to faculty, staff, students and members of the Nacogdoches community.

SFA’s Office of Multicultural Affairs will host the series “Something to Chew On” from noon to 1:30 p.m. April 8 in the Office of Multicultural Affairs located in the Baker Pattillo Student Center, Rooms 3.101 and 3.102.

The series helps stimulate open dialogue regarding current issues among the campus community. This event will focus on “Generational Trauma: Breaking the Cycle” and feature discussions involving how this trauma relates to how people are today.

The series is free and open to SFA students, faculty, staff and the community. Participants also can engage in interactive activities, and food will be provided.

For more information, contact the OMA at (936) 468-1073 or oma@sfasu.edu.

SFA’s School of Music will present a flute and piano recital when guest artists Meghan Bennett and Maria Lyapkova perform at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Cole Concert Hall.

The SFA concert is a joint presentation of the College of Fine Arts and School of Music. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, and $3 for students and youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407, or visit finearts.sfasu.edu.

SFA’s School of Music and its Friends of Music Concert Series will present a rescheduling of the faculty chamber recital “Zodiacal Light” at 7:30 p.m. April 2 in Cole Concert Hall.

The recital will feature Christina Guenther, flute; Christopher Ayer, clarinet; Lee Goodhew, bassoon; and Ron Petti, piano. They will perform works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Roger Zare, Kyle Hovatter and Daniel Dorff.

Recital tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, and $3 for students and youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407, or visit finearts.sfasu.edu.

When you think of Japan, the bright, busy cityscapes of Tokyo may come to mind. But Japan’s natural landscapes should not be overlooked.

The Nishikigawa Railway has a train station built solely to admire the mountainside view in the Yamaguchi Prefecture of Japan. This station, which is only accessible by train, offers people access to a picturesque view.

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