APSU Provost Lecture Series: Art professor Jones to present Common Hope on September 26th
September 24, 2013
Clarksville, TN – An Austin Peay State University art professor will present the next session of the Provost Lecture Series this week at APSU.
Barry Jones, interim chair of the APSU Department of Art, will present at 3:00pm, Thursday, September 26th, in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. His lecture will be about the “Common Hope” community art project he developed this year.
Barry Jones, APSU associate professor of art, works on his new “Common Hope” project. (Photo by Beth Liggett/APSU)
APSU biology student Eva Grebe presents research in Washington, D.C.
May 7, 2013
Clarksville, TN – Earlier this spring, a bidding war erupted on the Austin Peay State University campus. Specifically, several different departments were fighting over the honor to pay for biology student Eva Grebe to attend the annual Council on Undergraduate Research’s Posters on the Hill Convention in Washington, D.C.
Only 60 out of 800 applicants nationwide are accepted to attend the convention. Grebe was the only Tennessee college student to be invited.
APSU student Eva Grebe is interviewed about her research during the Council on Undergraduate Research’s Posters on the Hill Convention in Washington, D.C.
15 APSU Faculty members chosen as Summer Research Fellows
April 12, 2013
Clarksville, TN – Fifteen faculty members at Austin Peay State University have been chosen as awardees in the Summer Research Fellowship Program (SRFP), an initiative to encourage the development of research/creative activity projects at the University.
The SRFP awards up to $5,000 for selected proposals by tenured or tenure-track faculty to develop a research or creative activity project that should place them in a better position to seek external funding.
Fifteen faculty members at Austin Peay State University have been chosen as awardees in the Summer Research Fellowship Program (SRFP), an initiative to encourage the development of research/creative activity projects at the University. (Photo by Beth Liggett, APSU photographer)
APSU student Eva Grebe to present research in Washington, D.C.
March 16, 2013
Clarksville, TN – Earlier this year, some 800 college students from across the country submitted proposals to present their research at the annual Council on Undergraduate Research’s Posters on the Hill Convention in Washington, D.C.
That organization, which was founded in 1978 to promote high-quality undergraduate scholarship, accepted only 60 applicants. [Read more]
Austin Peay State University Students excelling this Semester
February 18, 2013
Clarksville, TN – The spring semester at Austin Peay State University started only a month ago, but several students in the school’s College of Science and Mathematics and College of Behavioral and Health Sciences have wasted no time in finding ways to excel.
Most recently, three of those colleges’ top students were invited to present their research at the 2013 National Conference on Undergraduate Research in La Crosee, WI. [Read more]
APSU faculty and students attend National Science Foundation workshop in Knoxville Tennessee
November 14, 2012
Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, TN – Scientists in all fields often face the challenge of explaining to the public why their research is important. Scientific jargon and technical terms often bog down interviews and simple conversations, occasionally leaving people more confused than when they started listening to these individuals.
On November 7th, a group of Austin Peay State University faculty members and students traveled to Knoxville for a National Science Foundation workshop that addressed this exact problem. [Read more]
APSU Geoscience Student headed to Iowa this summer for coveted National Science Foundation program
May 2, 2012
Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, TN – Josh Day, an Austin Peay State University geosciences student, was determined to get an internship this summer.
Throughout the year, he sent off dozens of applications, hoping to find something that would strengthen his knowledge and skills in the area of geographic information systems. [Read more]
Austin Peay State University honors exemplary professors during Annual Honors and Awards Ceremony
April 27, 2012
Clarksville, TN – On Tuesday afternoon, Austin Peay State University recognized five professors with the highest distinctions awarded to faculty members during the University’s annual Honors and Awards Ceremony.
Dr. Mary Lou Witherspoon, professor of mathematics, was named the recipient of the 2012 APSU Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award. The award is presented annually to a faculty member or department chairperson who has completed a minimum of four years of full-time teaching at Austin Peay. [Read more]
New APSU Biogeography Class to Take Students to Rocky Mountains
July 7, 2011
Clarksville, TN – The base camp, consisting of a few tents and sleeping bags, will sit in a secluded valley, in the shadow of the 14,000-foot Blanca Peak in Colorado. At night, when the exhausted team of researchers returns from their 2,000-foot hike to get some rest, they’ll have to bundle up to warm themselves against the cold air blowing down the mountain.
“Even in the summer, there’s still snowpack on the mountain,” Dr. Christopher Gentry, Austin Peay State University assistant professor of geography, said. [Read more]
APSU Professor Receives NSF Grant to Help Train Dendrochronologists
May 9, 2011
Clarksville, TN – Not a lot of options exist for college students wanting to study dendrochronology – the examination of tree rings to determine environmental variables such as droughts or fires that occurred centuries ago. Austin Peay State University has a Biogeography, Environment and Tree-ring Laboratory (BETR Lab) to conduct this type of research, but it’s in the minority compared to the rest of the nation.
“Most universities in this country don’t have a tree-ring lab,” Dr. Christopher Gentry, BETR lab director and assistant professor of geography at APSU, said. [Read more]
