APSU physics student named Deborah Gulledge “Scientist of the Week” at national lab
April 6, 2018
Clarksville, TN – The night sky is darker, the stars brighter, in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee. The rural town sits about an hour south of Nashville, where the heavens are dimmed by excessive light pollution, and as a girl, Deborah Gulledge became curious about the brilliant stars above her home.
“I was always interested in astronomy,” she said recently.
APSU’s Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison publishes fifth scholarly work on Hispanic crime fiction
February 23, 2018
Clarksville, TN – In 1978, the Spanish crime novelist José García Martínez-Calín created Gay Flower, a tough private detective reminiscent of Mikey Spillane’s Mike Hammer and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlow.
Flower’s adventures through the hardboiled underworld of 1940s Los Angeles helped revive crime fiction in Spain and Latin America, but Martínez-Calín is rarely mentioned in academic journals or invited to the genre’s many celebrated literary festivals, like Spain’s popular Semana Negra (Black Week).
Clarksville’s Movies in the Park to feature APSU PeayClipse talk on “The Secret Lives of Astronomers”
July 14, 2017
Clarksville, TN – As part of the ongoing PeayClipse lecture series, Austin Peay State University faculty member Dr. J. Allyn Smith will present a talk titled, “The Secret Lives of Astronomers” at 7:00pm on July 22nd, 2017 during the City of Clarksville’s Movies in the Park Series, at McGregor Park.
The talk will take place prior to the evening’s featured film, “The Secret Lives of Pets.”
Beachaven Vineyards & Winery wins medals at 2013 International Wine Competition
August 10, 2013
Gets Gold Medal, Silver Medal and Two Bronze Medals
Nashville, TN – Tennessee just made global news for its award winning wines.
Tennessee wineries took home 21 medals from the recent Indy International Wine Competition at Purdue University, one of the nation’s largest wine competitions.
The West Lafayette, Indiana event attracted more than 2,300 wines from 39 states and 14 countries as far away as France, Australia, Chile and Greece. The wines were judged by 44 international experts in a completely blind taste competition based on appearance, aroma, taste and aftertaste.