Our four-day Centennial Celebration weekend will be filled with exciting events running tomorrow through Monday, Sept. 18.

All events are open to the public, and all except the SFA Alumni Association awards ceremony are free.

View the up-to-date schedule of events, read about the university’s history, find downloadable graphics and more at sfasu.edu/centennial.

A limited number of centennial volumes of SFA’s Stone Fort yearbook, celebrating a century of Lumberjack history and tradition, are available this fall for purchase by alumni, supporters and community members while supplies last.

The full-color, hardback edition costs $67 and features 312 pages of SFA images and stories pertaining to the past year and all 99 years that came before it. Proceeds from annual yearbook sales are used to help cover the cost of printing and pay for SFA student writers, photographers and editors who work for the award-winning publication.

The centennial issue of Sawdust is live on the Sawdust website. Highlights of this collector’s edition include a historical timeline as well as the following articles:

• “Read Between the Lines: Student journalists document SFA’s story through century-old publications”

• “A History of SFA in Objects: The items and people who shaped SFA”

• “’Neath the Purple and White: SFA traditions bring generations of Lumberjacks together for 100 years”

Those who receive print copies of Sawdust should watch for their magazines to arrive this week. Offices across campus will be receiving copies of Sawdust as well. If your office hasn’t received its copies by end of day tomorrow, email johnsonrobin@sfasu.edu.

The first public performance in SFA’s newly renovated Turner Auditorium will be a concert that honors the university’s past and present and features a grandiose work inspired by the poems of Nacogdoches’ own Karle Wilson Baker, one of Texas’ most celebrated poets in the first half of the 20th century.

The Centennial Concert is one highlight of SFA’s four-day Centennial Celebration, along with the grand opening Sunday, Sept. 17, of the newly renovated and expanded Griffith Fine Arts Building. An open house at 1:30 p.m. includes a ribbon-cutting and unveiling ceremonies in the second-floor lobby.

Montaña and her former graduate student, Erin Shepta, along with collaborators from Texas A&M University and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department published a new paper, "The ecological niche of native and invasive fish congeners in Texas streams: evidence from morphology, stable isotope analysis, and stomach contents analysis," in the journal Biological Invasions.

This new research used integrative approaches based on morphological traits, stable isotope analysis and dietary analysis to investigate multiple dimensions of the ecological niche between two native Texas fishes, Red River Pupfish and the Plains Killifish, and their sympatric invasive relatives, Sheepshead Minnow and the Gulf Killifish. This research study, funded by TPWD, was conducted in the Brazos River and Red River basins in Texas.

Rice was named the 2023 Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance College/University Physical Education Teacher of the Year. She will receive her award at the 2023 TAHPERD 100th Annual Convention in December in Fort Worth.

Since its start in 2019, the Bachelor of Science in construction management offered through the James I. Perkins College of Education has seen exceptional progress and success. To meet the needs of our growing student enrollment, the construction management program has acquired an updated laboratory facility.

Join us for an open house to explore our new construction management space and learn more about our outstanding program and students from 3 to 5 p.m. Oct. 20 at the construction management building, 514 E. Austin St.

To learn more about the program, visit the construction management webpage.

“Yes, We Deliver,” a play written by Dr. Kenneth Untiedt, professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing, will open tomorrow at Lamp-Lite Theatre.

The showings will take place at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Sept 15-16 and 22-23. Sunday matinees begin at 2 p.m. Sept. 17 and 24.

Trying to help students find their way from the Ferguson Building to the Art Studio? Tell them to type sfasu.edu/map and their destination in their phones, and the new interactive SFA map will guide them there.

Organized in sections including “Academics,” “Student Life,” “Parking” and “SFA Gardens,” the map’s building/area descriptions feature the services housed in them, contact information and, in some cases, historical information. Special events like the Centennial Celebration, Showcase Saturday and graduation ceremonies will have their own sections outlining activities, their locations and parking areas.

Off-campus areas including the DeWitt School of Nursing Complex and the Todd Agricultural Research Center are currently being added to the map. To request updates to the map, submit a ticket at sfasu.edu/umc.

The new Certified Communicator Program from the Division of University Marketing Communications will show you how to be an effective SFA brand ambassador.

From advertising, photography and videos to web presence and Slate emails, these Zoom modules presented by UMC staff members offer the latest information on how to market your event or service as well as branding updates stemming from SFA’s affiliation with The University of Texas System.

To earn a certificate, you must complete the Foundations module and three other modules of your choice. The trainings are held from 2 to 3 p.m. on Thursdays. September trainings include:

• Foundations, today

• Social Media, Sept. 21

• Accessibility, Sept. 28

To register, visit “myTraining” through mySFA and search for "CCP." To submit a marketing request to UMC, visit sfasu.edu/umc.

SFA Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. tonight, in the Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center.

Keith Hansen, a retired extension horticulture agent for Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, will present "I Wish I Never Planted That (There), and Other Thoughts after Gardening 30 Years in Tyler.”

Golf

The men's and women's golf teams competed at the NCAA Golfweek Fall Challenge, placing 11th and 17th, respectively, Sept. 12 in Pawley's Island, South Carolina.

This is a professional position responsible for administering comprehensive sports club and camp programming functions within Campus Recreation. The role supervises assigned staff, including student and graduate assistants, and reports to the director of Campus Recreation.

This is a professional off-campus position responsible for coordinating visits with schools within assigned region. The coordinator counsels families, prospective students and the general public on the admissions process at SFA. The positions reports to the assistant director of admissions.

This is a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track faculty position responsible for contributing significantly to SFA’s undergraduate and/or graduate programs through teaching, scholarship/creative accomplishment and service.

For more career opportunities, visit SFA's career website.

As valuable as it is to leave no trace behind in national parks, it’s also important to leave the flora and fauna behind, too. At Cedar Breaks National Monument, the only one who should be picking the wildflowers is the tenacious American pika. The pika, related to rabbits, doesn’t hibernate but picks wildflowers in the summer and lays them out on rocks to dry and eat in the winter. These flower bundles, called haystacks, can weigh up to 60 pounds by the end of summer.