Austin Peay celebrates 90 years of Residence Life
July 26, 2021
Clarksville, TN – In the fall of 1931, Austin Peay Normal School students eagerly watched construction crews put the finishing touches on an impressive new dormitory.
The Myra McKay Harned Hall, with its “columns and polish marble floors,” would soon become the centerpiece of a young campus crowded with old, deteriorating academic buildings, left over from the defunct schools – Stewart College and Montgomery County Masonic College – that once occupied the Austin Peay grounds.
Harned Hall under construction at Austin Peay Normal School. (APSU)
Austin Peay State University’s ‘phage hunters’ join front lines of medical research
November 8, 2019
Clarksville, TN – The 10 Austin Peay State University (APSU) students in Dr. Sergei Markov’s junior- and senior-level biology classes this semester are taking advantage of a unique research opportunity that could help lead to medical breakthroughs.
Heath Simpson shows his Petri dish during a recent phage hunter class at Austin Peay State University. (APSU)
Graduate student explores the ‘Ghost Stories of APSU’
October 31, 2019
Clarksville, TN – It gets chilly around this time of year at Austin Peay State University (APSU). As the crisp autumn air slowly swirls with falling leaves, there’s nothing better than gathering around a fire to hear a hair-raising ghost story.
And Austin Peay State University has its ghost stories.
Melissa Arrington, far right, prepares her team for the ghost hunt. (APSU)
Austin Peay State University takes a look back 20 years at the1999 Tornado
January 21, 2019
Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, TN – Twenty years ago, on January 22nd, 1999, a powerful E3 tornado ripped its way across the Austin Peay State University (APSU) campus, causing millions of dollars in damages that, according to the Tennessean, resulted in “The largest single property loss in state history.”
Downed trees littered the APSU campus following the 1999 tornado.
Meet Wilf the cat, another APSU Paws to Care success story
December 25, 2018
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – Scott Shumate thought he was going to get a cat. The IT analyst for Digital Services at Austin Peay State University’s Felix G. Woodward Library had a cat lined up last summer – his friends had a stray but weren’t allowed to have pets.
APSU student Scott Shumate adopted Wilf from Paws to Care.
APSU’s Phi Kappa Phi chapter collecting books for Halloween event
October 17, 2018
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – For the 16th consecutive Halloween, the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (PKP) at Austin Peay State University (APSU) is collecting new and gently used children’s books for its Candy for the Mind project.
Members of the campus and local community are invited to support this effort through donations of books or money for the purchase of books.
Children look through books at a previous Candy For the Mind event at Austin Peay State University.
New liaison to help APSU connect with Tennessee’s Japanese-owned companies
November 15, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Earlier this year, Yoshio Koyama, a retired businessman from Japan, set up his new office in Austin Peay State University’s Harned Hall. During the semester, he’s taught a few language and culture classes, but Koyama isn’t a college professor.
Retired businessman Yoshio Koyama is a liaison provided by The Japan Foundation to help forge relationships between APSU and Japanese businesses.
APSU student newspaper The All State turns 85
November 30, 2015
Clarksville, TN – On November 26th, 1930, a small, four-page newspaper appeared on the Austin Peay Normal School campus. The All State, as it was known, arrived that fall to present all of the school’s news and “gossip,” and by the spring of 1931, most students eagerly awaited its weekly publication.
85th anniversary of the Austin Peay student newspaper The All State
“What Women Wore,” a new exhibit on American women’s fashion to open at APSU
August 24, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Fashion has always been one of the ways a society leaves its mark on history. From fabric and colors emphasizing social standing to design that highlighted society’s ideals of sexuality, a great deal of knowledge can be gained by studying the fashion of the time.
“Our goal (at Austin Peay State University) is to inspire our incoming freshman students and show them that history can be interesting and relevant,” APSU adjunct professor Deanna Carter said. “And after discovering a collection of period women’s clothing, we all decided that the pieces were a fantastic way to teach students about the social status and experiences of American women.”
“What Women Wore” exhibit at APSU
APSU to break ground on new fine arts building September 1st
August 4, 2015
Clarksville, TN – When Barry Jones was a student at Austin Peay State University in the early 1990s, he heard rumors about a new fine arts building going up on campus.
Ten years later, Jones returned to his alma mater as an assistant professor, and he was reassured that the growing art department would soon move out of the cramped Trahern Building.
Austin Peay Fine Arts Building, North Perspective.
