This Week at APSU: Austin Peay State University to offer special lecture about coronavirus
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University (APSU) will host a special lecture at 5:30pm Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020 so area residents can learn more about the coronavirus outbreak, about similar viruses and about how outbreaks such as this one take root and spread.
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APSU professor Tamara Smithers selected as visiting artist scholar at American Academy in Rome
Clarksville, TN – An Austin Peay State University (APSU) art history professor is spending part of the spring semester as a visiting artist scholar at the American Academy in Rome.
Austin Peay State University professor Dr. Tamara Smithers visited the Aqueduct of Emperor Trajan under the American Academy in Rome’s foundations. (APSU)
APSU adds more Robotic Classes due to high demand
Clarksville, TN – One quick observation bolsters the Austin Peay State University (APSU) decision to add robotics classes to the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology’s offerings.
Associate professor Dr. John Nicholson teaching a robotics class at Austin Peay State University. (APSU)
Hilldale Kiwanis Club of Clarksville to hold Hilldale Kiwanis Half-K, April 4th
Clarksville, TN – On April 4th, 2020, the Hilldale Kiwanis Club of Clarksville, the organization dedicated to improving the lives of children one community at a time, is hosting the Hilldale Kiwanis Half-K at 8:00am in Downtown Clarksville.
APSU Asanbe Diversity Symposium keynote lecture speaker to be poet, artist & diversity officer Colón
Clarksville, TN – During the 2016 Presidential Election, CNN sent reporters to Welch, West Virginia, for a piece on “why America’s white working class feels left behind.” The story painted Appalachia as a homogenous region, populated only by poor, white coal miners and farmers.
But when Puerto Rican poet Ricardo Nazario y Colón traveled through the area’s wooded, rural hills, he noticed something different.
Ricardo Nazario y Colón
Austin Peay State University gives Northeast students peek at multidisciplinary field of robotics
Clarksville, TN – Twenty-five students from Northeast High School’s Computer Information Technology Academy (CITA) recently visited with Austin Peay State University (APSU) students and professors to learn more about how robotics is integrated in various fields.
Austin Peay State University students show off robotic manufacturing systems and robots to Northeast High School students. (APSU)
CDE Lightband awarded American Public Power Association Solar Research Grant
Clarksville, TN – CDE Lightband has received a research grant by the American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments (DEED) program.
CDE Lightband 6.38kW solar array installed at the CDE main campus at 2021 Wilma Rudolph Boulevard.
This Week at APSU: ‘Frozen II’ artist Heather Abels to speak at Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Department of Art + Design, with support from The APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, is pleased to welcome award-winning senior matte painter & environment designer, Heather Abels, to Austin Peay State University.
Senior matte painter Heather Abels works at her Clarksville home office.
APSU languages and literature students to present their scholarship at international conferences
Clarksville, TN – Five Austin Peay State University (APSU) languages and literature students are headed to Las Vegas next month to present their scholarly research at the Sigma Tau Delta International Convention. Sigma Tau Delta is an international English honor society with a strong, student-run chapter at Austin Peay State University.
Austin Peay State University languages and literature students Calie Benke, Jessica Emerson, Micaela Cuellar, Gabriela DiCarlo and Arizona Hurn. (APSU)
APSU receives Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation grant to connect campus to Clarksville Greenway
Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation (CMCCHF) recently awarded nearly $400,000 in grant funding to the Austin Peay State University (APSU) Foundation to connect the APSU campus to the Clarksville Greenway.
Austin Peay State University students using a BCycle from the APSU campus station. (APSU)
