APSU recognizes Outstanding Professors with 2020 Faculty Awards
August 18, 2020
Clarksville, TN – On Monday, August 17th, Dr. Maria Cronley, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Austin Peay State University (APSU), honored several outstanding professors during a virtual meeting with all APSU faculty.
Austin Peay State University 2020 Faculty Awards. (APSU)
APSUs student-discovered Phages entered into National Genetic Sequence Database
May 29, 2020
Clarksville, TN – More than a dozen Austin Peay State University (APSU) students who have taken advantage of a unique research opportunity are now seeing their work recognized on a national scale.
Austin Peay State University biology student Gabrielle Rueff examines a phage sample. (APSU)
Austin Peay State University helps Clarksville Academy High School with Coding Camp
March 13, 2020
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University (APSU) Department of Computer Science and Information Technology worked with Clarksville Academy to offer a two-week custom camp in January to 12 students.
Clarksville Academy students worked on Unity C# during their custom camp. (APSU)
Austin Peay State University’s Science on Tap to explore “Weird, Wonderful World of Animal Sex”
February 2, 2020
Clarksville, TN – “I’m about to ruin ‘Finding Nemo’ for you.” That’s the warning Austin Peay State University (APSU) biology professor Dr. Mollie Cashner had while sharing a sneak peek at February 4th’s Science on Tap presentation: “The Weird, Wonderful World of Animal Sex.”
Clownfish are a good example of just how weird sex can be in the animal world. (Danny de Bruyne/FreeImages)
APSU team wins site at speed-programming competition
November 8, 2019
Clarksville, TN – Two Austin Peay State University (APSU) teams recently competed in a regional speed-programming competition, and one team finished first place at its site and 24th overall.
Austin Peay State University Team “Scarlet Double” finished first of 16 teams at the University of Tennessee at Martin. (APSU)
APSU adds elementary, middle school summer coding camps
May 2, 2019
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University (APSU) is expanding its coding camps this summer to include elementary and middle school students after a successful 2018.
And the new campers will get a bonus: They’ll program and work with a robot.
Junior coders participate in a coding class during the spring 2019 semester at Austin Peay State University.
Austin Peay State University student team ‘null’ zeros in at speed programming contest
November 14, 2018
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Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University (APSU) computer science students continue to impress this semester.
Three APSU teams recently competed in a national speed-programming competition, and one team almost finished tops at its site.
APSU’s Harrison Welch, front, Chris Tuncap and Lexie Nance were on team “null.”
APSU, local teacher team up to offer free coding classes for young students
September 12, 2018
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Clarksville, TN – When Bridget Cloud first offered free junior computer coding classes at Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library, she had one class and a few young students. But the number of students – and of classes – grew quickly.
“The interest for the little kids, it just kept going and going and going,” she said.
Northeast High School’s Bridget Cloud, standing, is founded and leads Clarksville Junior Coders. “We’ll be working on something, and the kids will get off track,” she said. “That’s what’s so cool is they’ll get off track, and they’ll find something else, and they’ll call me over, and we’ll get all excited together.” (Dr. James Cloud, APSU)
APSU Computer Science and Information Technology students compete, present research at major competitions
November 22, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Students from Austin Peay State University’s Department of Computer Science and Information Technology have been active in recent weeks, competing in regional coding challenges, as well as presenting findings at a major academic conference.
Two teams of Austin Peay students recently made a strong showing at the Association for Computer Machinery-International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) 2017 Mid-Central USA Regional Contest, held Saturday, November 4th, 2017 at the University of Tennessee at Martin.
APSU computer science major Michael Timbes presented his research into Google TensorFlow at the conference.
Enrollment is open for Austin Peay State University’s EDGE Summer Video Game Development Camp
June 16, 2017
Clarksville, TN – This summer, area high school students can learn the skills needed to create their own video game as Austin Peay State University’s Department of Computer Science and Information Technology presents EDGE, the Educating Developing Games Experience summer camp.
The EDGE camp will be offered in two sessions, with the first session lasting from July 10th-14th and the second session taking place July 24th-28th. Each session lasts from 9:30am-3:30pm and all sessions take place at the Maynard Mathematics and Computer Science Building on the University campus.
Austin Peay Maynard Mathematics and Computer Science Building. (APSU)
