3D Printers

 

 

SAU Honors College staff deliver 3D printers

One of our new full honors courses is 3D Printing. Naturally, you cannot teach course without printers.

We are looking forward to offering this innovative course.

Bucket List Jameson Foster

 As a current student in the Honors College at Southern Arkansas University I plan to keep my GPA at least 3.6 because I believe, as an Honors College student, it is my duty to get the best grades I can. I am also working toward graduating with a major in Computer Science (Computer Game and Animation Design) in 2028. I chose this degree because I have been making video games since I was 10, and I enjoy the process. 

In 2025, I plan to begin looking for an internship at a video game development studio so that I can meet like-minded individuals in my career field and gain hands-on experience, which will benefit my future career. I intend to continue on this path after graduating around 2028-2029; my end goal is to become a lead designer, at the very least.

I also want to spend time with my family, especially my nieces, Laykin and Blakely, and my nephew, Asher, because they are getting older, and I want to spend time with them before they become more distant, as I have become with my own aunts and uncles. 

Once I begin my career, I would like to start a family around 2030–2032 because family is a great motivation for working harder and striving to advance in my career. With my family, I hope to visit New York City because, as my mother always says, “Everyone needs to visit once.” My current partner also wishes to visit NYC one day.

As for more immediate bucket list items, I plan to attend and compete in the SAU Game Jam on October 5th, as I plan to work with people in my major to create my first big game jam project.

Bucket List: Sa'riya Hildreth

 

• Graduate from SAU with my BSN and Honors 

• Get my MSN in nursing as a nurse practitioner 

• Get married by 25 years old  

• Visit the U.S. Virgin Islands
  

• Travel to Egypt  

• Learn to speak fluent Spanish 

• Learn how to paint portraits 

• Buy my parents their dream item 

• Buy my dream car and house by 28 years old 

• Go ziplining in Jamaica 
  

New Server Room (Closet)

 The server closet in Nelson Hall houses our new and old servers

Among the benefits our our new Honors College space are four spacious closets. Nelson Hall, our new home, was once a residence hall. So, we now have four closets. Two are in David Wingfield's office and are used for storage of files and other stuff.

The other two are in my office. Today, one became the new home of peace.saumag.edu, mdst.org, mulerider.saumag.edu, and francis.saumag.edu. I removed the closet door so that the space would not get too hot. Suraj installed (see picture above, clockwise from upper left) our old server box, a monitor, keyboard (no mouse required for old UNIX command line interface), another monitor, keyboard, mouse, new server box, and uninterrupted power supply. Don't worry Suraj only needs to go into the closet rarely. He can access both servers remotely from the comfort of his desk next door.

The servers provide Web pages for psychology and honors courses, host the Web page of the Magnolia Dolphin Swim team, and most importantly provide resources for social work departments around Arkansas as well as the IV-E project.

While the servers now have a new home much still remains to be done. Soon, they will be configured for "fail-over" meaning that should the new (main) server crash, the old one would automatically take over. Additionally, both servers will contain the same information, while a nightly back up to a hard disk will add additional redundancy.