Stephen F. Austin State University

Led by Dr. Rashid Mia, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, three students were selected to represent Stephen F. Austin State University at the Scholars Transforming Through Research advocacy program, presented by the Council on Undergraduate Research. This marks the first time SFA students have participated in the competitive application-based program.

Stephen F. Austin State University's Jordan Coleman, a Master of Arts in public history student from Effingham, Illinois, has been named a Jess Hay Graduate Fellow by The University of Texas System for the 2024-25 academic year. The fellowship is a unique graduate opportunity established by the late Jess Hay, a former UT System regent who was an advocate and visionary leader for the UT System. Hay passed away in 2015. The fellowship was designed to tie graduate education to timely and high-quality research benefiting the state of Texas.

Four students from Stephen F. Austin State University presented at the Southwest Data Science Conference hosted by Baylor University in March.

Junior Deaf education major Emma Halliburton represented Stephen F. Austin State University at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research April 8-10 in Long Beach, California. Halliburton was recognized as a finalist at this year's SFA Undergraduate Research Conference and received funding from the James I. Perkins College of Education to attend NCUR. She presented her research titled, "Empowering Youth through Social Justice: A Mixed Methods Case Study of the Deaf Community Travel Trunk Project."