Provost Lecture Series at APSU to feature Fulbright Scholar
Clarksville, TN – The next Provost Lecture Series at Austin Peay State University will feature a Fulbright Visiting Scholar who will discuss U.S. and Russia relations.
Dr. Alexander Kubyshkin, professor of North American studies in the School of International Relations at St. Petersburg State University in Russia, will speak at 6:00pm, Wednesday, February 23rd in the Morgan University Center Ballroom C.
His visit is sponsored by the U.S. Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, the APSU Department of Political Affairs and the offices of Academic Affairs and International Education. The event is free and open to the public. [Read more]
Silents Please! Public Library presents a Classic Silent Film Series beginning in March
Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library will be presenting The General, starring Buster Keaton, as the first in a series of three classic silent films to be screened in March, April and May.
Can an unlucky Civil War era train engineer help defeat the Union Army; win back his stolen train and his beloved girlfriend at the same time?!
See Buster Keaton's Classic Silent Film: The General.
Event featuring popular environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rescheduled for March 2nd
Clarksville, TN – His reputation as a resolute defender of the environment that stems from a litany of successful legal actions, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be the special guest speaker for the annual Unity Celebration at Austin Peay State University.
Kennedy will speak at 7:00pm, Wednesday, March 2nd in the Memorial Health Gym (Red Barn) on APSU’s main campus as part of the annual Student Affairs Unity Celebration. The event is free and open to the public. [Read more]
APSU Senior Art Students Exhibit Work this Spring
Clarksville, TN – Earlier this month, a group of 16 young artists gathered in a classroom on the Austin Peay State University campus while a winter storm dropped two to three inches of snow outside.
Normally, this would be a cause of distraction for the students. They might be expected to gather around the window and wonder if the University was going to close (which it did moments later).
APSU art students will present several art shows and exhibits this spring on campus. (front row, from left) Jessica Rodriguez, Meagan Wirrick, Wendy Wainwright, Justin Hooper, Kelsey Masters, Hannah Jennings, Art Professor Gregg Schlanger, (back from left) Jessica Griffin, Melissa Cox, Michael Kline, Renee Perry, Eric Watson, Casslyn Moore, Megan Melton and Kristina Juodenas-Tickle. Students Renye Zhang and John Mathis are not pictured. (Photo By Charles Booth/APSU Public Relations and Marketing)
Montgomery County Dedication Event at Veterans Plaza
Montgomery County, TN – County Mayor Carolyn Bowers dedicated the Robert E. Thompson Memorial Garden and re-dedicated the William O. Beach Civic Hall, at Veterans Plaza, Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 at 2:30pm.
George W. Bush Book Signing at Fort Campbell KY
Fort Campbell, KY – President George W. Bush signed copies of his bestseller, Decision Points, at the Fort Campbell Main Exchange on Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 at 9:30am.
Artist Ford Examines “Small Objects” at New Exhibit at APSU
Clarksville, TN – The world, in its vast entirety, can easily be broken down into a series of small objects. Each tiny piece plays an important part in the whole, and it is those relationships that fascinate the artist John W. Ford.
“I am interested in the power of small objects, and collections of small objects, to catalyze interpretation and speculative meaning,” he said. “As an archaeologist examines a pot shard to gain insight into the individuals or groups who created the original pot, or as the paleontologist studies a fossil to comprehend ancient life in its context, my interest is to examine and present small objects for their potential to evoke aesthetic, intellectual, and/or emotional responses in the viewer.” [Read more]
Provost Lecture Series at APSU to explore stage fright
Clarksville, TN – The next Provost Lecture Series at Austin Peay State University will explore performance anxiety/stage fright as a nemesis in the lives of some professors and students.
Dr. Thomas King, professor of music, will present “Weak Knees? Sweaty Palms? The Anxiety Doctor Can Help” from 3:00pm-4:30pm, Thursday, February 17th in the Morgan University Center, Room 308. The event is free and open to the public. [Read more]
Combat Medic in Afghanistan
Video by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell
210th MPAD
Nuristan Province, Afghanistan – A day in the life of U.S. Army Spc. Brit ‘Doc’ B. Jacobs from Sarasota, FL, assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, doing his job as a combat medic in eastern Afghanistan’s Nuristan Province while under enemy fire.
APSU Military History Program Continues to Get National Exposure
Clarksville, TN – The Master of Arts in military history is a relatively young program at Austin Peay State University, receiving approval from the Tennessee Board of Regents only four years ago, but it is already garnering a national reputation as a respected degree program. That’s because the University’s M.A. in military history has received some rather prominent publicity in the last few years, including a recent article in the American Historical Association’s publication “Perspectives in History.”
The AHA, founded in 1884, is the largest historical society in the country. The article in its journal touts the APSU program’s “new military history” approach that stresses the relationship between war and society. [Read more]
