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The Candlelight Ball is an Austin Peay tradition created to provide annual scholarships for the University’s students, and was founded in 1984 by the late retired Brig. Gen. Wendell H. Gilbert.

39th Annual Candlelight Ball to bring new traditions to APSU community

3/20/2023

Alumni Engagement and Philanthropy 2023 topnews Community Engagement and Sustainability Candlelight Ball

Community invited to free milkweed planting workshop at Austin Peay

1/9/2023

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Austin Peay professors, staff visit Moore Magnet to teach students about birds

2/24/2022

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Austin Peay to host family-focused Great Backyard Bird Count event on Feb. 19

2/9/2022

Community Engagement and Sustainability Center of Excellence for Field Biology topnews field-biology

The largest Douglas fir in the state.

APSU home to largest Douglas Fir tree in the state

10/19/2021

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A sign for APSU's composting center sign.

APSU showcasing green practices during Community Sustainability Forum on Oct. 9

10/1/2021

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Austin Peay's freshmen serve nonprofits in Clarksville, Hopkinsville, Dickson during Freshman Service Project

9/8/2021

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Austin Peay has a new outdoor space for class discussions, community fellowship

8/26/2021

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Govs Summer Camp children benefit from Nashville Predators-funded garden at Austin Peay

8/6/2021

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Austin Peay midway through 'Campus Race to Zero Waste'

2/26/2021

Community Engagement and Sustainability

The Browning Building with a tree in front of it.

APSU to host plant sale from campus' native meadow this spring

2/26/2021

Community Engagement and Sustainability

APSU to compete in "Campus Race to Zero Waste" to impact recycling efforts on campus

2/8/2021

Community Engagement and Sustainability

APSU encourages campus to power down over winter break

11/18/2020

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Green grass on campus.

APSU receives Best Overall Organization Award for outstanding environmental stewardship

9/24/2020

Community Engagement and Sustainability

APSU names environmental expert as campus' new sustainability coordinator

6/29/2020

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APSU students kneeling in front of a Tybee Island sign

APSU students perform service work during winter break

1/23/2020

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Two students pull weeds at an alternative break worksite.

APSU celebrates 10 years of alternative break trips

3/14/2019

Community Engagement and Sustainability

College of Business students stand in a group in the Kimbrough Building. These students are volunteering as tax preparers in Clarksville.

APSU College of Business offers free tax prep to qualifying individuals

2/13/2019

Community Engagement and Sustainability College of Business

APSU students volunteer at a zoo in New Orleans during winter break.

Austin Peay students volunteer during winter break

1/25/2019

Community Engagement and Sustainability

Students prepare meals during the Freshman Service Project.

More than 200 APSU students fight world hunger during Freshman Service Project

10/12/2018

Community Engagement and Sustainability

Mallory Fundora stands with children she supports in Uganda.

Austin Peay freshman's nonprofit feeding children in Uganda

9/26/2018

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Two APSU employees dump food waste into the University's new composter.

APSU part of state's inaugural Food Waste Initiative

5/14/2018

Community Engagement and Sustainability

Students performing service work in Grafton, Illinois.

Students perform service work in Illinois during Alternative Break

3/23/2018

Community Engagement and Sustainability

Drawing of a Somali woman looking up at the film's title.

APSU hosting free screening, discussion of immigration documentary "Welcome to Shelbyville"

3/23/2018

Community Engagement and Sustainability Languages and Literature

Students sit on a backhoe's bucket during an alternative break trip.

Students spend winter break in Georgia for Alternative Break Trip

1/30/2018

Community Engagement and Sustainability