Austin Peay State University's Department of Art + Design, with support from the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, is hosting the 58th Annual Juried Student Exhibition through April 29 in The New Gallery, featuring 55 works from 45 student artists juried by CDC Chief Design Officer Cesar Rivera.

Austin Peay State University will host a large-scale interdisciplinary emergency response simulation on Monday, April 13, involving approximately 250 participants across seven disciplines as students work through an impaired-driving scenario.

Baron, a professor of communication and former department chair, has spent over a decade building programs and partnerships at Austin Peay. Since arriving in 2012, he has grown the university's footprint in social and digital media and led the Department of Communication through COVID-era challenges.

Austin Peay State University is hosting Plant the Campus Red on Thursday, April 23, continuing a tradition that began in 1999 when campus and community members came together to revitalize the grounds after a devastating tornado.

The multi-day festival was organized by students in APSU's Zone 3 Internship course and will welcome writers from across the country, including Makkai, her guests, Kim Brooks and Jessie Van Eerden, and Zone 3 Journal Editor's Prize winners Francesca Leader, Nicole Yurcaba, and Jacob Vaus.

Professor Emeritus Dr. Solie Fott, a driving force in the establishment of Austin Peay State University's Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, passed on Monday, April 6, 2026, at his home in Clarksville, Tennessee. An accomplished violinist and fiddle player, Fott's legacy at APSU is one of deep generosity to students and an abiding commitment to the arts.

The Department of Theatre & Dance, with support from the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, will present "LIZZIE: The Musical," a rock exploration of the Lizzie Borden story, from April 16-19 in the Mike and Sara Gotcher Theatre.

A research team in the Department of Biology is working to identify and provide dignified burials for nine human skeletons and dozens of loose bones believed to be connected to the illegal body trade that shipped remains from India to medical schools from the late 1800s to the 1980s.

Austin Peay State University sophomore Erin-Kate Roeder is balancing one of the most demanding majors on campus -- engineering physics -- with her role as goalie on the university's inaugural women's lacrosse team, with sights set on a career in biomedical engineering and 3D-printed prosthetics.

Austin Peay State University's Full Spectrum Learning program celebrates its 10th anniversary with Autism Awareness Week events April 13-18. Free and open to the public, the week features workshops, a student showcase, a forum, and an anniversary celebration honoring a decade of supporting neurodiverse students.

Austin Peay State University's chapter of the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society recently inducted 143 first-year students during a ceremony in Clement Auditorium, marking the largest cohort since 2014.

The Austin Peay State University Board of Trustees will host its quarterly meetings on Friday, April 10, at the O'Malley Family Welcome Center, beginning with committee sessions at 8:15 a.m. followed by a full board meeting.

Five Austin Peay State University business students have co-authored a study published in the Journal of International Education in Business, analyzing wage trajectories for more than one million college graduates and finding a strong association between integrated academic experiences and higher long-term earnings.

The Austin Peay State University College of STEM will host its next Science on Tap event at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7, at Strawberry Alley Ale Works, featuring a presentation on organ donation from Samantha Robinson, an assistant professor of radiography and three-time organ transplant recipient.

Seventy-nine native species will be available for purchase online through April 30, with proceeds benefiting the APSU arboretum.

Austin Peay State University has received a gift from Terry ('77, '79) and Valen Cox to establish the Valen A. Cox Scholarship Endowment, which will provide annual scholarships beginning in Fall 2027 with first priority for military spouses of active-duty U.S. Army soldiers.

A group of Austin Peay State University students traveled to Belgrade, Serbia, over spring break to study national security through the university's Institute for National Security and Military Studies, engaging with leading Serbian scholars and policymakers at the Institute of International Politics and Economics.

Austin Peay State University's Woodward Library will host a free book giveaway from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, in the library lobby, offering more than 1,100 books for all ages and interests.

Prihodova is a curator, artist, and arts administrator with over a decade of experience working across academic galleries and international cultural institutions.

Austin Peay State University's Woodward Library Society will host its annual Spring Social on Saturday, April 18, in the Morgan University Center Ballroom, featuring a presentation from Chief Warrant Officer 2 Nick Lavery, the first above-the-knee amputee to return to operational status in U.S. Army Special Forces history.

Two Austin Peay State University graduate students from Belize are producing what is believed to be the first international Belizean musical, telling the story of Nora Parham, a woman wrongfully executed in 1963. An abbreviated version will premiere at the APSU Fringe on May 2 in Trahern Theatre.

Austin Peay State University has named Dr. Lisa Sullivan, a longtime faculty leader and APSU alumna who served as the Department of Chemistry's chair for 12 years, as the university's senior vice provost and senior associate vice president for faculty affairs.

Govs Give 2026, Austin Peay State University's 10th annual day of giving, has raised $423,866 with 1,290 gifts, bringing the campaign's decade-long total to more than $3 million in support of student success.

The 268-page book, "Teaching Labor History in the United States, 1850-2020," brings together scholars and educators to address what Attwood identifies as a significant gap in secondary education: the marginalization of labor history in standard social studies curricula for grades 6-12.

The effort will concentrate on areas with heavy foot traffic between classes, and the department says enforcement and visibility will remain ongoing priorities.