APSU faculty recognized for their efforts
June 3, 2010
Two faculty and staff members at Austin Peay State University demonstrated recent professional and scholarly service.
Dr. Linda Davis, associate professor of literature, had a review of Chanda Casmir’s “Teaching and Learning of English in Secondary Schools: A Zambian Case Study in Improving Quality” published in the Summer 2010 edition of The Modern Language Journal. She also has been invited to review “Content and Language Integrated Learning: Evidence from Research in Europe” edited by Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe and Rosa Maria Jimenez Catalan for possible publication next summer.
Dr. Brian L. Johnson, assistant vice president of academic affairs, served as commencement speaker May 8th at Clinton Junior College in Rock Hill, S.C., and as honors and awards convocation speaker April 7th at Paine College in Augusta, GA.
APSU sports broadcasting program receives nomination for CSMA
June 2, 2010
A video produced by a handful of Austin Peay State University sports broadcasting students for Lady Governors basketball has been nominated for a 2010 College Sports Media Award.
The College Sports Media Awards (CSMA) is a competition recognizing excellence in video production at all levels of college sports and is sponsored the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and the Sports Video Group (SVG). Out of more than 130 entries in three categories, the nominees represent outstanding college sports video productions from campuses across the country as well as commercial college sports videos produced by major television networks and advertising agencies. [Read more]
Roxy Founders to be Featured Guests at June Spring Salon Event
June 1, 2010
In fall of 1983, Clarksville’s arts community received a major boost when Tom Thayer and John McDonald converted an old, downtown movie house into the Roxy Regional Theatre. The historic building on Franklin Street, with its famed neon sign, soon became a cultural hub for the area.
Twenty-seven years and more than 200 productions later, the theater is still thriving. At 7:30pm on June 10th, the Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will host a special Spring Salon event at the Roxy, featuring an evening with both McDonald and Thayer.
John McDonald (left) and Tom Thayer (right).
Extended Education classes offered at APSU
May 31, 2010
Early registration discount on selected courses
Develop a new skill, explore a new idea, learn a new language or seek a new career with a class from Austin Peay State University’s Center for Extended and Distance Education. Register early and receive a 10 percent discount on selected courses. Preregistration is required for each course. [Read more]
H.O.P.E awards scholarships to four local high school students.
May 29, 2010
On Thursday, the Hispanic Organization for Progress & Education issued the Juan Vasquez scholarship to 4 High School Students from the Clarksville-Montgomery County Area: Yarliz Rodriguez, Francis Nicole Griffin, Rebecca S. Keyes, and Yazarette Guzman. Hope looked at the students civic involvement and their grades in determining who to award the scholarship to. [Read more]
The 16th APSU Governors Bass Tournament
May 29, 2010
The team of Sam Lashlee and Jeff Davis literally cast aside the rest of the field as they captured the first-place prize of $4,000 in the 16th annual Governors Bass Tournament, Sunday. Lashlee, of Camden, and Davis, of Waverly, came away with a catch of 29.12 pounds to easily outdistance Scott Mansfield, who hauled in 22.42 to take second place and $1,500.
APSU GIS Center helps develop Damage Assessment application
May 27, 2010
The building, like so many homes and businesses in middle Tennessee, was a pale brown from where the floodwaters covered it. Mike Wilson, manager of Austin Peay State University’s Geographic Information Systems, stood among the tree limbs and other debris in the Woodlawn community and pulled out his cell phone.
He wasn’t making a call. He was filling out a damage assessment of the property and filing it to an electronic server. It took him only a few minutes to complete. For years, the long, drawn-out process of recording the destruction inflicted by a disaster has sometimes taken days or weeks, delaying the time it takes for needed aid to reach an area, but a new cell phone application, developed by the APSU GIS Center and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, may soon allow emergency responders to document immediately any damage they come across. [Read more]
APSU Alum Frazee awarded prestigious Teaching Fellowship
May 26, 2010
Austin Peay State University alumnus Catherine Frazee (’06) was recently named a recipient of a prestigious Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship.
Frazee, a former accountant for more than 15 years, earned her degree in communication arts and a minor in English writing at APSU. She now lives in Indiana and plans to attend Indiana University-Purdue University this summer to begin her fellowship.
The 81 Fellows named this spring will enter innovative teacher preparation programs at four selected Indiana universities and then teach in the state’s high-need urban and rural schools. [Read more]
Sam Lashlee and Jeff Davis wins 16th APSU Governors Bass Tournament
May 26, 2010
Sam Lashlee and Jeff Davis won the 16th Governors Bass Tournament, Sunday, at Paris Landing State Park.
PARIS LANDING—The team of Sam Lashlee and Jeff Davis literally cast aside the rest of the field as they captured the first-place prize of $4,000 in the 16th annual Governors Bass Tournament, Sunday.
Lashlee, of Camden, and Davis, of Waverly, came away with a catch of 29.12 pounds to easily outdistance Scott Mansfield, who hauled in 22.42 to take second place and $1,500.
APSU nursing Chair of Excellence wins scholarly writing contest
May 25, 2010
The Lenora C. Reuther Chair of Excellence in Nursing at Austin Peay State University will have her manuscript appear in an upcoming issue of Tennessee Nurse after it was declared the winner of a recent statewide contest.
Dr. Patty Orr, assistant professor and Chair of Excellence, won the Tennessee Nurses Foundation’s 2010 Scholarly Writing Contest. She will receive a $1,000 cash award for her manuscript, titled “How I Use Research in Daily Practice.”
“With the many challenges of the present health care system and the need for innovation in solving access, quality and cost equations, nursing has the opportunity to provide solutions; however, proposed solutions must be tested through research,” Orr said in her manuscript. “In my nursing practice I look for evidence based actions that will positively impact patients’ health and prevent disease progression.” [Read more]
