As part of its Severe Weather Awareness Week concluding Saturday, Feb. 17, Emergency Management is reminding faculty and staff that now is the time to prepare for the spring severe weather season.

Sign up and encourage your students to sign up for Jack Alerts through mySFA. Also, download the Rave Guardian mobile phone app. If you know some Lumberjack families who wish to receive local weather alerts, they can sign up for the City of Nacogdoches NacWise program.

Lastly, make a severe weather plan before you need it! Your family may not be together when a disaster strikes, so it is important to plan in advance. For tips, visit ready.gov/make-a-plan. For SFA’s emergency procedures, visit the Emergency Management website.

The James I. Perkins College of Education’s Access and Opportunity Committee is sponsoring “STARs Funding Opportunity for Dialogue” at 10 a.m. tomorrow via Zoom. Dr. Lorenzo Smith, provost and executive vice president of academic affairs, will be the featured speaker for the informational session, which will allow for faculty members to learn about potential collaborations for Faculty STARs and Rising STARs

Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention Program, or STARs, is designed to help UT System institutions attract and retain faculty talent in the areas of science and technology. STARs funding, which will be provided through reimbursement for expenditures related equipment or renovations, is available to eligible incoming new and current faculty members. The next round of applications for STARs funding is due July 1. For more information, visit the STARs Program webpage.

To register for the event, complete the registration form. Once completed, you will receive a Zoom link to attend.

Faculty, staff, students and community members are invited to the Office of International Programs’ global gateway presentation to Pakistan at 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15, in Steen Library, Room 103.

The event will include a presentation led by a SFA international student from Pakistan who will introduce attendees to their country, traditions and lifestyle. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation.

Upcoming presentations will take place at 3 p.m. in Steen Library, Room 103, unless noted otherwise. Events include:

El Salvador: 2 p.m. Feb. 22

Japan: Feb. 28

Mexico: March 20

France: March 27

Nigeria: April 11

Malaysia: April 18

Australia: April 25

For more information, contact Enrique Venegas, at (936) 468-6604 or enrique.venegas@sfasu.edu.

Learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness and what to do when someone you know is experiencing thoughts of suicide with QPR (Question. Persuade. Refer.) Suicide Interventionist Training from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20, in the Baker Pattillo Student Center Multimedia Room 2.106.

Lunch will be provided. Those interested need to RSVP to employeewellness@sfasu.edu by Thursday, Feb. 15.

Faculty and staff are encouraged to inform students about the all-majors career fair planned for 1 to 4 p.m., Feb. 21, in the Baker Pattillo Student Center Grand and Twilight ballrooms.

The event is an opportunity for faculty, staff and students to connect with potential employers and campus partners. Recruiters will discuss internship and full-time job opportunities across many fields of study.

This event is free for students and alumni to attend, but professional dress is required. For more information, visit the CCPD website or email ccpd@sfasu.edu.

The East Texas Research Center is hosting the presentation, "Introduction to Genealogy" at 4 p.m. March 6 at the ETRC Archive Lab.

Linda Reynolds, ETRC director, will be leading this introductory presentation which is aimed at those who are interested in beginning genealogy and do not know where to begin. ETRC will consider future advanced genealogy presentations, if requested.

If you would like to attend, sign up on the event's registration page. For more information, email Candice Cloud, archive lab liaison, at candice.cloud@sfasu.edu.

SFA's entrepreneurship academic program and Arnold Center for Entrepreneurship in the Rusche College of Business were collectively named one of the top three emerging entrepreneurship programs in the nation by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

This award recognizes colleges and universities for their efforts developing nascent entrepreneurship programs that demonstrate outstanding progress toward becoming comprehensive, bold and innovative educational programs with early records of student impact.

Families are already starting to look at their options for summer camp experiences, and SFA’s Summer Camps webpage is one of the top search results. Take a moment and review your camp information to ensure its accuracy.

If updates are needed or your camp isn’t listed, submit a webpage content update ticket to the Division of University Marketing Communications with your camp details.

Men’s Basketball

SFA - 92 vs. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - 84

SFA - 63 vs. The University of Texas at Arlington - 71

Women’s Basketball

SFA - 49 vs. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - 62

SFA - 74 vs. The University of Texas at Arlington - 84

Softball

SFA - 4 vs. Wichita State University - 7

SFA - 0 vs. University of Nevada, Las Vegas - 11

SFA - 3 vs. University of Nevada, Las Vegas - 4

Tennis

SFA - 4 vs. Jackson State University - 0

To view SFA Athletics news and a schedule of upcoming events, visit sfajacks.com.

Venezuelan percussionist Alirio José Torrealba will perform at 6 p.m. tomorrow in Cole Concert Hall.

His recital will feature performances of “Entrevero” for Maracas and Tape by Guasaka4; “Pajarillo Flamenco” by Juan Carlos Contreras; and “Temazcal” (maracas and tape) by Javier Alvarez. He will also conduct a maracas master class for SFA’s percussion studio.

Who doesn’t like a spy thriller? Lovers of comic theater and classic movies will be in their element at the School of Theatre and Dance’s production of “The 39 Steps,” a parody play adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan and the film by Alfred Hitchcock.

“The 39 Steps,” will be presented Feb. 29 through March 3 in the Flex Theatre, Griffith Fine Arts Building. Directed by Professor Scott Shattuck, the play is full of rollicking humor, packed with “wildly inventive stagecraft” and features an intrepid group of seven actors playing dozens of roles.

The School of Theatre and Dance will present the student-directed full-length, dark comedy “The Motherf**ker with the Hat” by award-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16, and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, in the Black Box Theater in the Griffith Fine Arts Building.

Directed by Dallas senior Mariano Aguirre Jr., “The Motherf**ker with the Hat” explores the tumultuous journey of Jackie, a recovering addict determined to stay on the straight and narrow.

New choreographic works created by the SFA dance faculty members and guest artists Elias Kababa, Lacreacia Sanders and Torens Johnson will be featured in the program "Omnium-gatherum" presented Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 15-17, in Turner Auditorium, Griffith Fine Arts Building.

"‘Omnium-gatherum’ means a collection of miscellaneous people or things,” said Heather Samuelson, coordinator of the dance program and an associate director within the SFA School of Theatre and Dance. “Our choreographic works are so diverse and interestingly different from one to the next, we thought this was a good description of what will be presented.”

This is a professional position responsible for supervising the administration of the athletic training rooms and coordinating the treatment of injuries to student-athletes under the supervision of the team physician.

This is a skilled craft position responsible for performing routine motor vehicle, grounds and road maintenance equipment maintenance and repair work.

This is a full-time, 12-month faculty position responsible for serving as the chief executive of an academic department or academic school while exemplifying those faculty qualities most valued by the academic community: teaching excellence; scholarly and creative activities; and a commitment to university and community service.

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

Stargazers can find constellations in all kinds of shapes in the sky. However, it takes a special eye — or rather, an advanced telescope — to find shapes in distant galaxies. Recently, NASA shared a photo originally taken in 2018 which captures interacting galaxies Arp 142.

What do you think – do these faraway worlds look like a penguin and an egg? Read more at MyModernMet.com.