APSU This Week: Austin Peay to offer special lecture about coronavirus
(Posted March 2, 2020)
Austin Peay State University will host a special lecture at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, so area residents can learn more about the coronavirus outbreak, about similar viruses and about how outbreaks such as this one take root and spread.
Austin Peay medical laboratory sciences professor Jane Semler will deliver the presentation at the university’s monthly Science on Tap series at Clarksville’s Strawberry Alley Ale Works.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
To read more about the lecture, click here.
Send-off reception for Govs basketball on Monday night
Austin Peay State University athletics, in conjunction with ESPN Clarksville, will host a send-off to the 2020 Ohio Valley Conference Basketball Championships, beginning 5:45 p.m., Monday, in the Dunn Center lobby.
The first 45 minutes of the event will be 21-and-up only, with alcohol provided by Hand Family Company, Ajax and Premier Crush. Beginning at 6 p.m., the event will also feature this week's edition of Inside Austin Peay Basketball, with Scott Chase set to interview women's head coach David Midlick and men's basketball standout Terry Taylor.
The reception is free and open to the public, with drinks appetizers to be served courtesy of Chartwell's. For questions regarding the reception, email petersonn@apsu.edu. For OVC Tournament ticket information, visit LetsGoPeay.com or call the Austin Peay ticket office at 931-221-PEAY (7329).
The men’s team opens OVC tournament play at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in Evansville, Indiana, against the winner of Eastern Illinois and Jacksonville State.
The women’s team opens at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Evansville, Indiana, against Belmont.
To follow the teams, visit www.letsgopeay.com.
GuitarFest returns to campus March 3-5
This March, Austin Peay State University and the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will present the annual APSU GuitarFest, featuring guest artist concerts, lectures and workshops.
At 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday March 3, internationally renowned classical guitarist Ana Vidovic will perform a Clarksville Community Concert Association Concert in the APSU Mabry Concert Hall. A pre-concert talk will take place at 6:30 p.m. Ticket prices, along with special rates, are available at www.clarksvillemusic.org.
She will teach a masterclass at 10 a.m. on March 4. At 2 p.m. that day, award-winning guitarist Deiter Hennings will lead a masterclass, followed by a free concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Mabry Concert Hall.
At 10 a.m. on March 5, Nashville-native Richard Todd will present a masterclass, followed by a free concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Mabry Concert Hall.
To read more about GuitarFest, click here.
Erica Weiss, showrunner for CBS’s ‘The Red Line’ visiting campus
From March 2-5, the Austin Peay State University Department of Theatre and Dance and the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA) will welcome Jeff Awards-nominated theatre director, independent filmmaker and television writer/producer Erica Weiss to campus for a series of workshops and public events.
The Acuff events with Weiss, which will all take place in the Margaret Fort Trahern Lab Theatre, include:
- Masterclass: Auditioning for Film and TV/Directing, 6 p.m., March 2.
- Guest Lecture in Playwriting Class, 2:20 p.m., March 3.
- Guest Lecture in Acuff Seminar – Transitioning from Theatre to Film/TV, 4:30 p.m., March 4.
- Public Q&A and Reception, 7 p.m., March 5.
To read more about Weiss’s visit, click here.
Basketball-focused ‘Spectacle’ open through March
The New Gallery at Austin Peay State University, with support from The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts and the Department of Art + Design, is pleased to present Spectacle to continue an exciting 2019-2020 exhibition season.
“Spectacle is an exhibition that combines basketball and visual culture. It’s a three-person show that features the work of Brandon Donahue, Vesna Pavlović and Chris Boyd Taylor,” Michael Dickins, curator and director of The New Gallery, said.
The exhibit opens Monday, Feb. 24, at The New Gallery in the Art + Design building at Austin Peay State University and runs through March 27. The three artists, the curator and sportswriter Brandon Vogel – who wrote the exhibition essay for Spectacle – will participate in a panel discussion at 6 p.m. March 18 in Heydel Hall of the Art + Design building. A reception is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. on March 19 with a brief gallery talk by the curator and artists at 12:15 p.m.
All events are free and open to the public.
To read more, click here.
Get your taxes done for free
Austin Peay State University’s College of Business is looking to ease some of that stress by providing free tax preparation through its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. The program is open to anyone with an annual income of $56,000 or less, individuals with disabilities or Spanish speakers with limited English skills.
For the last three years, Austin Peay has offered the VITA program as part of a service-learning course that provides an important community service while also giving APSU accounting students practical, real-world experience. The students in Business Professor Jennifer Thayer’s class are all IRS-certified volunteers who spent the winter months preparing for the VITA program.
The VITA program has 31 student volunteers ready to serve members of the community at 322 Home Ave., home of the APSU Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement. Appointments can be made by calling 931-221-6590, but walk-ins are welcome. Students will offer tax preparation from 1-7 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturdays. The VITA program will remain open (except for the week of March 8-14, which is spring break) until the final tax-filing day on April 15.
For more, click here.
Other campus happenings this week:
- The baseball team hosts Southern Illinois at 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, and Murray State at 6 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday, at Raymond C. Hand Park. For more, click here.
- The softball team starts a home stand by opening the Governors Classic against Bradley at 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 6, at Cathi Maynard Park. The team also hosts UMASS Lowell at 6 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday; Bradley at 3:30 p.m. Saturday; and Purdue Fort Wayne at 1 p.m. Sunday. For more, click here.
- #Adulting: How to Handle a Car Accident & Not Freak Out at noon Tuesday, March 3, at Einstein Bros. Bagels. Click here for more.
- 20th Annual Wellness Expo at noon Wednesday, March 4, at the Foy Fitness and Recreation Center. Click here for more.
- Here’s to the Women! Suffrage Movement Performance by Linda Allen at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 5, at the Morgan University Center Ballroom. Click here for more.
- First Friday at 11 a.m. Friday, March 6, at the Morgan University Center Plaza. Click here for more.
- For more campus events, click here.
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