APSU hosts 19th Annual Bread and Words reading on November 26th
November 8, 2013
Clarksville, TN – Every November, on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, the Austin Peay State University Department of Languages and Literature hosts a benefit reading that not only celebrates the written word, but also raises public awareness of hunger in the local community.
This year, the tradition continues with the 19th Annual Bread and Words reading on November 26th in the APSU Morgan University Center Ballroom. [Read more]
Austin Peay State University Phi Kappa Phi Chapter awarded top distinction
November 7, 2013
Clarksville, TN – The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (PKP) at Austin Peay State University is one of 19 chapters in the nation to earn the Chapter of Excellence distinction for 2012-13.
APSU’s achievement was formally announced by the national PKP headquarters in Baton Rouge, LA. APSU was awarded this national distinction in 2011 as well. Other chapters in the nation were honored with the Chapter of Merit award.
Families look through free books as part of APSU’s Phi Kappa Phi chapter’s annual Candy for the Mind Project.
APSU Provost Lecture Series to feature Biology professor Baskauf November 7th
November 6, 2013
Clarksville, TN – An Austin Peay State University biology professor will present the next session of the Provost Lecture Series this week at APSU.
Dr. Carol Baskauf, APSU professor of biology, will present at 3:00pm, Thursday, November 7th, in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. She will talk about her work with Braun’s rock-cress, a federally endangered plant found only in Tennessee and Kentucky. The plant has an unusual distribution, with a 250-mile gap separating its Tennessee and Kentucky populations.
Austin Peay State University professor of biology Dr. Carol Baskauf.
Gwendolyn Rodriguez Shows Art Planters Bank November 7th
November 6, 2013
Clarksville, TN – Gwendolyn Rodriguez loves to paint pictures that tell a story of a person or a time and place. Her paintings, showing a sample of her diverse interests and places around the world, will be on display at the Planters Bank-Hilldale Gallery Thursday, November 7th – Wednesday, December 4th.
Although born in San Antonio, Texas, Rodriguez spent most of her childhood in Middle Tennessee. At 18, she experienced life as an exchange student in Germany, where she developed a passion for travel and languages.
Gwendolyn Rodriguez paintings on display at the Planters Bank-Hilldale Gallery
APSU student Chris Hayes spends summer at famed CERN laboratory
November 6, 2013
Clarksville, TN – When Austin Peay State University student Chris Hayes returned to Clarksville last summer, after spending nine weeks at the famed CERN laboratory in Switzerland, his friends and professors asked him what he thought of Europe.
“I said, ‘Well, I think it looks a lot like East Tennessee, except that the signs are in French,” he said. “It felt very much like I was at home.”
APSU student Chris Hayes stands next to the CMS detector, which is part of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.
New documentary at APSU explores Sioux Indian buried a century ago in Germany
November 5, 2013
Clarksville, TN – On a snowy afternoon a few years ago, the filmmaker Bettina Renner was walking through an old, Catholic cemetery in Dresden, Germany, when she came across a headstone with the name “Edward Two Two” engraved on it. The marker further identified the man, who died in 1914, as a Sioux Indian chief.
The grave seemed so out of place in Dresden – a city nearly destroyed by massive Allied bombings during World War II – that Renner set out to learn how Edward Two Two wound up Germany. [Read more]
Austin Peay State University’s Lisa Lewis publishes tap dance textbook
November 5, 2013
Clarksville, TN – Dr. Lisa Lewis, Austin Peay State University associate professor of Health and Human Performance, has spent much of her life in a pair of tap shoes.
As a young dancer, she trained under tap legends such as Gregory and Maurice Hines and Al Gilbert, and she later traveled the country during her career as a professional dancer.
Beginning Tap Dance by Dr. Lisa Lewis
APSU Provost Lecture Series presents English professor Daniel Shea, October 31st
October 31, 2013
Clarksville, TN – An Austin Peay State University English professor will present the next session of the Provost Lecture Series this week at APSU.
Dr. Daniel Shea, APSU associate professor of English, will present at 3:00pm, Thursday, October 31st, in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. He will discuss his paper, “Time Travel by Bicycle: The Country, the City, and the Cyclist in Late-Victorian England,” which uses accounts of bicycling in Victorian novels to examine how people moved easily between antiquated rural communities and modern cities during that era’s agricultural depression.
APSU Profesor Dr. Daniel Shea
Austin Peay State University well represented at Ohio Valley History Conference
October 30, 2013
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Department of History and Philosophy put on a strong showing at the annual Ohio Valley History Conference at Western Kentucky early this month with several faculty members giving presentations.
Austin Peay State University history faculty members participate in the Ohio Valley History Conference.
APSU professors discuss zombies at Nashville Comic-Con and Atlanta symposium
October 30, 2013
Clarksville, TN – “It would take a perfect storm to achieve a pandemic of zombie apocalypse proportion,” Dr. Amy Thompson, Austin Peay State University associate professor of biology, said during a recent talk at the Nashville Comic Con event.
Although a zombie apocalypse is purely fictional, she does think the recent zombie craze offers an opportunity to engage students in important, real-life topics, such as the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
Dr. Antonio Thompson and Dr. Amy Thompson are spreading the word about the new scholarly book they are co-editing, “The Real World Implications of a Zombie Apocalypse.” (Photo by Beth Liggett/APSU staff)
