The SFA Faculty Senate will hold a meeting at 2:30 p.m. May 7 in McGee Business Building, Room 133, and on Zoom.

Members of the SFA community are welcome to attend the public portion of the session either in person or via Zoom. However, per senate rules, only faculty senators are permitted to participate in the discussions during the meeting. Therefore, questions should be forwarded in advance to your faculty senator for potential consideration.

Daniel Campos, Lockheed Martin quality engineer, will give the commencement address during SFA's spring graduation ceremonies for undergraduates May 8-9 in Johnson Coliseum. Campos received a Bachelor of Science in engineering physics from SFA in 2021.

Faculty and staff are invited to attend the Endowed Faculty Recognition Ceremony at 4 p.m. today in the Wright Music Building, Cole Concert Hall. A reception will follow the ceremony.

We will celebrate our esteemed faculty members who have earned the honor of endowed professorships:

• Dr. Kwame Antwi-Boasiako, Donald Gregory Professorship

• Dr. Justin Blount, Sanner-Berry Business Professorship

• Dr. Dan Bruton, Micky Elliott Engineering Professorship

• Dr. Lauren Burrow, Margaret Hoover Perkins Research Professorship

• Dr. Emiliano Giudici, John Lewis Professorship

• Dr. Gregory Grabowski, Gene Moon Professorship

• Dr. Michele Harris, Tom F. and Deborah Nichols Pruitt Patent Education Professorship

• Dr. I-Kuai Hung, Robert E. Minton Professorship

• Dr. Matthew Jaramillo, John and Karen Mast Professorship

• Dr. Janet Jones, Temple-Inland Employees Distinguished Professorship in Accounting

• Dr. David Kulhavy, Laurence C. Walker Distinguished Professorship

• Dr. Stephen Lias, Dean's Circle Endowed Professorship of the College of Fine Arts

• Dr. Matthew McBroom, TLL Temple Chair

• Dr. Kelly Noe, Beverly Hatfield Smith Professorship

• Dr. Emmerentie Oliphant, Buddy Zeagler Professorship

• Dr. Brian Oswald, Joe C. Denman Professorship

• Dr. Barbara Qualls, E.J. Campbell Distinguished Professorship

• Dr. Nikki Shoemaker, Michelle and Harmon Smith Professorship

• Dr. Elizabeth Spradley, Jim Towns Mentoring Professorship

• Dr. Jeremy Stovall, Bone Hill Foundation Distinguished Professorship

• Dr. Sarah Straub, Montgomery Professorship for Humane Education

• Dr. Pat Stephens Williams, Dr. Hiram and Gloria Arnold Professorship

• Dr. Stephanie Ross, Sammie L. Smith Professorship

• Dr. Daniel Unger, Kenneth Nelson Professorship

• Dr. Yanli Zhang, Marilyn Cranford Professorship

SFA will formally celebrate Dr. Neal Weaver, SFA President, during the Presidential Investiture Ceremony at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 1, in Turner Auditorium in the Griffith Fine Arts Building. During the ceremony, the president will officially be vested with the powers of the office, symbolizing the beginning of a new chapter in the university's history.

The Department of Kinesiology and Health Science held a retirement party for Buswell, who served SFA for 20 years, on April 25. Dr. Stacy Hendricks, interim dean for the James I. Perkins College of Education, lauded Buswell for her devotion, loyalty and longevity to SFA, leaving a strong legacy. Buswell also served as the program coordinator for the physical education teacher education in the department.

Ajero judged pre-college piano students at this year’s East Texas Music Teachers Association Achievement Auditions at The University of Texas at Tyler. Chosen students performed in the honors recital held in UT Tyler’s Braithwaite Recital Hall.

Senior Send-Off: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. April 29, Banita Creek Hall

The Big Dip: 9 a.m. and 1 and 4 p.m., May 2, Grand Ballroom, Baker Pattillo Student Center

Plant Propagation with Dr. Andrew King: 9 a.m. to noon May 3, Brundrett Conservation Education Building

Choral Masterwork Concert with SFA Symphony Orchestra: 7:30 p.m. May 3, Griffith Fine Arts Building, Turner Auditorium

Final exams: May 5-9

Lumberjack Launch Guaranteed Admissions Program kickoff: May 7

Commencement: Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, Micky Elliott College of Fine Arts, and Nelson Rusche College of Business: 3 p.m. May 8, Johnson Coliseum

Commencement: Graduate Studies: 6 p.m. May 8, Johnson Coliseum

SFA Gardens’ Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series: A Snake Woman’s Garden: 7 to 8:30 p.m. May 8, Brundrett Conservation Education Building

Commencement: College of Liberal and Applied Arts and College of Sciences and Mathematics: 3 p.m. May 9, Johnson Coliseum

Commencement: James I. Perkins College of Education: 6 p.m. May 9, Johnson Coliseum