Category: Campus News

Yep, we’ve got that too!

Three new sporting teams have organized at Southern Arkansas University, bringing student engagement to a new level and allowing players to earn national recognition. Trap Shooting The University has begun recruiting for a new trap shooting team following the successful additions of eSports and disc golf. The interest and anticipation

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Kristina and Kelsie Madison

Mom’s Business Success Inspires Daughter

Kristina and Kelsie Madison both credit the Southern Arkansas University Rankin College of Business (RCB) with changing their lives for the better. The mother and daughter duo had the chance to catch up and visit with mutual professors in February when Kristina was invited to participate in The Executive Network.

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Reagan Wish Reveal

A magical Make-A-Wish® reveal

Despite not having a volleyball or basketball game played in it since the end of February, the seemingly dormant W.T. Watson Center was brought to life and bore witness to a magical moment on March 29 as over 300 Southern Arkansas University student-athletes, coaches and administrators were on hand to

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Trey Berry FFA

SAU continues to attract Arkansas FFA leaders

Faculty, staff, and agriculture students from SAU attended the Arkansas FFA State Convention this year not only to share their love for SAU with future Muleriders, but to also present educational workshops, participate in college information panels, and provide extra hands in helping with the state leadership contests. More than

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SAU stars

Shooting for the Stars

Southern Arkansas University computer science and engineering students have benefited from grants to their respective research projects from NASA. Projects involving 3D modeling and data mining are underway thanks to grant proposals written by faculty. The projects will not only result in new discoveries, but launch the students into their

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Levi Myers

Finding Middle Ground

Two students from locales that might not ordinarily be associated with Arkansas have found a home at Southern Arkansas University. Gabrielle Gleason, a sophomore Elementary Education major from Hilo, Hawaii, and Levi Myers, a freshman who spent many years living in Fairbanks, Alaska, bring their unique personalities to SAU. Gleason

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Muleriders in Cuba

Muleriders in Cuba

Southern Arkansas University continued strengthening its relations with Cuba by sending delegates to an international conference in Havana in February 2018. Dr. Trey Berry, president of SAU; Dr. Ed Kardas, Honors College director; Petr Kandidatov, director of ESL; Dr. Juping Wang, associate professor of Spanish; Steven Ochs, professor of art;

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Tennis Coming Back – Greg Owen Tabbed to be head coach

This past November it was announced that both the men’s and women’s tennis programs at Southern Arkansas University were going to make a comeback and resume competition beginning in the fall of 2018. The announcement made by SAU President Dr. Trey Berry and Director of Athletics Steve Browning echoed a

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SAU Band grows along with University

The SAU Band has grown by such leaps and bounds in the past 10 years that it has necessitated the physical growth of the Band Hall, said J.P. Wilson, director of bands and assistant professor of music. Wilson said plans call for Magale Rehearsal Room to be increased from 3,264

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