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APSU's 35th Annual Percussion Ensemble Halloween Concert coming Oct. 29

For more than three decades the concert, featuring student musicians in Halloween costumes and an eerily decorated Mabry Concert Hall, has ushered in the October holiday.

Austin Peay ROTC sends third-, fourth-ever cadets to West Point program

Michelle Phillippe and Herman Thomas navigated the summer school alongside West Point cadets in such exercises as marksmanship, field training, team leading and water obstacles.

APSU This Week: Fall Break begins a quiet week at Austin Peay

Neither the Clarksville Campus nor Fort Campbell Center will have classes on Oct. 14-15.

Kennedy Center hip-hop teaching artist engages through CECA partnership

As a Kennedy Center teaching artist, Bomani Armah travels the country showing educators how to use hip-hop to teach the creative writing process. He led 15 Clarksville-Montgomery County School System educators in a teacher training workshop on Oct. 2, and the following two days, he held several writing workshops for nearly 350 Kenwood middle schoolers.

Students explore meaning of family in 24 Hours Animation Contest

Ten Austin Peay students had 24 hours to create the best possible 30-second animated film they could working off nothing more than a contest prompt and the knowledge they've earned from the university's emerging animation program.

APSU's Industry Summit provides path for region's future

This year's event brought together more than 300 local and regional leaders for a focused discussion on Clarksville's promising future, with the city recently being named the best place to live in the U.S.

APSU hosting Brexit panel to help community make sense of historic event

The panel discussion is designed to provide attendees with an understanding of how and why Brexit has occurred, and what effect it will have on Europe and the rest of the world.

APSU history department has strong showing at Ohio Valley History Conference

Hosted by the Kentucky Historical Society in the town of Frankfort, this year's conference featured presentations from four APSU professors and two APSU graduate students.

Zone 3 to host Crane, Givhan for poetry reading

Zone 3 Press will celebrate its First Book Award in Poetry when it welcomes Patty Crane and Jenn Givhan for a reading at 8 p.m. Oct. 17, 2019, at Austin Peay State University's Art + Design building Room 120.

APSU This Week: Govs football hopes to follow up on its rout of rival Jacksonville State

The Governors hope to protect the Fort again following their Sept. 28 rout of conference rival (and then No. 11-ranked) Jacksonville State and the subsequent bye week. The Govs host Southeast Missouri at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12.

APSU and CMCSS receive a $30,000 grant from The Japan Foundation

Austin Peay and the school system will use the grant to support the institutions' innovative Japanese language partnership.

APSU's Harrison named to Division I Competition Oversight Committee

The committee prioritizes enhancement of the student-athlete educational experience and, in doing so, promote student-athletes' personal growth and leadership development.

Austin Peay sends first-ever ROTC cadet to Jungle Warfare School

Austin Peay cadet Jakob Bertoni had one week to relearn everything he was taught in ROTC before being dropped into the Hawaiian jungle.

Austin Peay animation students to compete in international 24 Hours Contest

Austin Peay students to compete in international 24 Hours Animation Contest

Ten Austin Peay students will muster all they've learned from the university's emerging animation program when they test their skills in an international 24-hour movie-making contest Oct. 4-5.

APSU Hosting AP Day Saturday, Oct. 5

This event serves as an open house that allows visitors and their parents to meet with staff from admissions, financial aid, housing/residence life and the student life and leadership offices.

Henry and Monika Bowman Endowed Scholarship will support APSU students studying mathematics and economics

To be eligible for the scholarship, students must have a major in economics or mathematics and demonstrate a significant financial need. A 3.0 GPA is also required.

APSU's Zone 3 Press, Goldsmith Press launch poetry competition

Zone 3 Press in collaboration with Austin Peay State University's Art + Design department is launching an annual poetry competition, and the winning poem will be featured on a broadside poster printed on the University's letterpress.

Photo gallery: Mud Bowl 2019 caps APSU's Family Weekend

As the Governor likes to ask, "Are you even an Austin Peay student if you haven't been hit by a muddy volleyball?" This year's Mud Bowl capped a fantastic Family Weekend.

Former Austin Peay student joins Gwen Stefani's team on 'The Voice'

A former Austin Peay State University student has joined Gwen Stefani's team on NBC's hit singing competition "The Voice."

APSU hosting Q&A with award-winning, Atlanta-based director Freddie Ashley

Ashley has directed such hits for Atlanta's Actor's Express as "Rent," "The Rocky Horror Show," "End of the Rainbow," "Six Degrees of Separation" and "Grey Gardens."

APSU's one-credit hour community classes now free this October

The University is now offering one-credit hour community courses for free this October thanks in part to the Austin Peay State University Foundation's general scholarship fund.

APSU's Omicron Delta Kappa honor society earns national award

Founded at Austin Peay State University in 1979, the local Omicron Delta Kappa Circle recently celebrated its 40th year on campus.

GeoClub earns five first-place awards at GeoConclave

The Austin Peay State University GeoClub won several first-place awards at the 2019 GeoConclave over the weekend at Harrison Bay State Park.

APSU's Susan Bryant selected for Rosenzweig Exhibition

Bryant, a retired APSU professor of photography, was selected for the 2019 Irene Rosenzweig Biennial Juried Exhibition at The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas (ASC) in Pine Bluff.

Photo Gallery: Gov Run adds dash of color to Family Weekend

Weather canceled the annual Gov Run at the Austin Peay Experience welcome weekend in August, but that just pushed the popular event to the symbolic kickoff of Family Weekend last weekend.

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