Category: Campus News

Athletic Facility Enhancements

SAU and Mulerider Athletics have recently completed several facility enhancement projects that are directly impacting all 12 of SAU’s intercollegiate programs. From minor upgrades to bring about a fresh look to the facilities, to full-scale construction projects bringing new state-of-the art complexes to campus, to utilizing technology that enables SAU’s

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Running for a cause

Working with youth and giving back to his community are two passions of Ricky Martinez, a 2006 graduate of Southern Arkansas University. He works in outpatient therapy for OrthoSurgeons in Little Rock, does some personal training, and volunteers as a cross-country coach at Little Rock Christian Academy (LRCA). Teaching kids

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SAU alum helps family of incoming student

The look on 10-year-old Keira Foy’s face and her “Are you kidding me?!” reaction to the unveiling of her new bicycle almost made irrelevant the logic-defying series of events that led to this emotional moment on April 30, 2016. At the center of this phenomenon was Southern Arkansas University, other

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Summer camps liven up campus

For the second year in a row, summer camps headlined by the Mulerider Kids College injected life into SAU’s hibernating campus and left hundreds of youth with lasting memories. The second annual Mulerider Kids College (MKC) ended at noon on June 30 with a packed house in Grand Hall as

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SAU three-peats in regional engineering-physics competition

For the third straight year, SAU Engineering-Physics students have taken the top titles at the highly competitive annual Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Research Conference. At the 2015 conference, held November 6-7 in Fayetteville, there were 170 total oral and poster presentations from various institutions across Arkansas

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Student’s path to marine research starts at SAU

Since he was just a toddler, Addison Ochs seems to have had his life’s destiny laid out for him with the destination clearly being around water. He found the right start to be in South Arkansas. Ochs inherited a love of scuba diving and practically grew up on the campus

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