Austin Peay State University's Winter Term, which runs from Dec. 11-Jan. 9, allows students to complete up to two online classes in just four weeks.

Several interesting events are planned throughout campus this week, from events celebrating pride and disability awareness to recognizing the monsters under our tables.

You may have seen his picture. He struck Superman pose during the Govs Color Run celebration. The photo graced the Austin Peay homepage for several days.

Dr. Chad Brooks talks about a recent CNBC article that reported how master's degrees give individuals "the biggest salary boost - up to 87% more money."

An Austin Peay State University graduate conducting student has been chosen for an internationally competitive women conductor fellowship with Girls Who Conduct and the Georgia Symphony Orchestra.

Some of the things happening during this fall break-shortened week: Latinx Heritage Month Art Exhibit; JCPenney suit-up; and Wansoo Kim's "Table Monsters" exhibit.

This fall, Uffelman is reuniting with her collaborators from a 2015 book for a special virtual series, Tennessee 101: Tennessee Women in the Progressive Era, Part 1.

Austin Peay State University's Gina Garber, professor of library administration, recently led a cuneiform clay tablet active-learning exercise

Austin Peay State University's own Dr. Penelope Shumate is one of 12 finalists in the Artists Division in the Camille Coloratura Awards vocal competition. The competition began with almost 90 national contestants. The finalists' concert can be viewed on Facebook at 7 p.m., Oct. 9.

Clarksville resident Heather Abels worked as a matte painter for Disney's "Encanto" and as a matte painting consultant for the Netflix film, "My Little Pony."

Dr. Brandon Di Paolo Harrison, Austin Peay State University assistant professor of accounting, received a new research fellowship with the Universidad del Centro Educativo Latinoamericano in Argentina.

To qualify for this scholarship, students must be APSU sophomores, juniors or seniors with a 3.0 GPA and a studio art major with a concentration in photography.

Dr. Phil Roe, a retired U.S. congressman who represented Tennessee's First District, will fill a seat that opened earlier this year when Gen. Gary Luck resigned following his move to Florida.

The superhero-themed concert will return to campus with in-person performances, and a livestream, at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the Music/Mass Communication Building's Mabry Concert Hall.

In the coming weeks, The Community School of the Arts at Austin Peay State University will offer a new dance class - hip hop for ages 16 and older - and two new workshops - a three-hour self-publishing workshop and a four-hour holiday landscape watercolor workshop.

This free clinic is open to anyone over the age of 18 - no appointments are necessary - and visitors can choose to receive either the Moderna vaccine or the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.

The New Gallery, with support from The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts and the Department of Art + Design, is pleased to present Wansoo Kim: Table Monsters to continue an engaging 2021-22 exhibition season.

APSU's Untenured Faculty Organization, which began meeting in August, now provides additional support to the College of Education's 15 junior faculty members.

The series kicks off at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 5, with Bookkeeping Basics for Business Owners. At 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 12, the series will present Marketing and Branding Your Business the RIGHT Way.

Austin Peay has a series of events this week to celebrate the university's 90th annual homecoming, "The Peayquel: Together Again!" Here are some of the more popular events.

The forum will feature brief presentations from community experts on topics like at-home composting, native gardening and Clarksville's beautiful outdoor recreation spaces.

Austin Peay State University communication professors and students recently won several awards at the Tennessee Communication Association (TCA) 2021 Annual Convention.

Writer, educator and spoken word poet Sarah Kay will bring her engaging performance style to Austin Peay State University through a live virtual appearance at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 7. The performance is free and open to the public via Zoom webinar with a Q&A to follow.

In interviews, Dr. Brandon Di Paolo Harrison shares his insight on choosing between filing taxes online or hiring an accountant and his tips on calculating auto insurance rates.

Austin Peay State University's Science on Tap will return to Upstairs at Strawberry Alley Ale Works on Tuesday, Oct. 5, with discussion of a story that has captured the region's imagination for 200 years.

Dallen Larson might only be a freshman at Austin Peay State University, but the 18-year-old Springfield native is also a budding video game developer, releasing his newest creation - "Rhythm Knights"-- on Sept. 17.

Over the last 50 years, the ROTC program has won eight McArthur Awards, and it has commissioned 837 cadets as second lieutenants into the U.S. Army, Army Reserve and National Guard.

A documentary about the creation of "Tennessee Triumph" - a Clarksville monument that celebrates the passage of the 19th Amendment, which secured women's right to vote - will be featured at the Nashville Film Festival this week.

The mural has four different areas for interactive photos and was completed by local artist Olasubomi Aka-Bashorun, with assistance from APSU student and studio art major Karley Davis.

Happening this week: Honoring Latino Heroes, The New Gallery opens "Wansoo Kim: Table Monsters," APSU Scholarship 5K run and the Woodwind Chamber Ensembles perform.

An Austin Peay State University Governors flag recently zipped through the skies of the United Kingdom in the cockpit of a U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet.

The Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Austin Peay State University is celebrating its 50th year. To mark the occasion, each month through the end of the year, we'll share one story of a Governor's Guard alumni or former leader. This month, we share the story of APSU alumnus retired Lt. Col. Peter Lind.

The Austin Peay circle was one of only six to be selected for the prestigious honor by the ODK Board of Directors, and this marks the fourth consecutive year Austin Peay has won the honor.

A Sept. 17, 2001, dedication ceremony not only celebrated the $38 million structure with state-of-the-art classrooms and labs, modern offices and a towering atrium, but the event also marked a shift at APSU, especially for the departments of biology, chemistry, physics and agriculture.

Dr. Elif Demiral Saglam, assistant professor of economics, recently embarked on her second year as a research fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy program.

During APSU's Student Organization and Leader Awards in April, Kara Underwood received the William McClure Drane Award, and Sara Grey earned the Harvill-Civitan Citizenship Award.

Austin Peay State University will continue a monthlong celebration of Latinx Heritage Month with a free showing of "In the Heights" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22, at the Clement Auditorium. Doors open at 6 p.m. and free snacks will be available.

The University's Athletics Department, which has been a part of the Ohio Valley Conference since 1962, will now join the ASUN Conference on July 1, 2022.

Austin Peay State University is hosting Diplomat in Residence (DIR) for the U.S. State Department Allen DuBose at 2 p.m. Sept. 21 to inform students about employment opportunities within the U.S. government. The program will be conducted as a webinar.

The Department of Art+Design, with support from the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, will kick off the 2021-22 CECA Visiting Artist Speaker Series season with The Little Friends of Printmaking.

The Suit-Up event will take place on Oct. 17 at Governors Square Mall from 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. Students can receive up to 60 percent off select career wear, shoes and accessories when they use the 30 percent off coupon provided upon registration of the event.

During the last academic year, six FSL students earned their degrees, and this fall, the program registered 33 students - a record number for the program.

The grand opening, followed by the gate unveilings, will begin on Friday, Sept. 17, at 5 p.m. in the Fortera Stadium Football Team Room.

Happening this week: Latinx Heritage Month kicks off; Friday Football Frenzy pep rally; Constitution Day speaker; Zone 3 Press poetry reading; Board of Trustees meeting; and the last chance to see "Recent Acquisitions."

The Board will discuss several items, including the University's strategic planning process and proposed revisions to several APSU policies.

The APSA's Presidents and Executive Politics Founders Award honors the best paper written by a Ph.D.-level scholar during a given year.

Earlier this summer, the director of Austin Peay State University's The New Gallery and his summer research fellow discovered a striking photo of a red-haired girl with a face splashed with freckles. Within days, they had a compelling story to share, one that included an up-and-coming 26-year-old French photographer who from his shop in Pont-Aven, France, had the perfect light in 1970 to capture the freckled faces of Cécile and her two sisters, Béatrice and Silvie.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Austin Peay's award-winning Army ROTC program. Here's a look at some of the program's milestones that occurred over the last five decades.

The competition, supported by the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police and the Tennessee Sheriffs' Association, provides law enforcement agencies with an opportunity to demonstrate how they promote traffic safety initiatives.

On the morning of Saturday, Aug. 28, a group of new Govs helped nonprofits in Clarksville, Hopkinsville and Dickson, where they helped victims of recent flooding.

Happening this week: The Veterans Service Organization will visit campus to talk to military-affiliated students; Dr. Jeffrey Williams, baritone, will perform at the Mabry Concert Hall; and The New Gallery continues with its exhibit, "Recent Acquisitions."

This fall, Austin Peay welcomed students from Honduras, Japan, Kenya, Cuba, the Bahamas, Germany, Aruba, Colombia and Nigeria.

Poets Paige Lewis, Komal Mathew and Emily Spencer will present a virtual reading of their poetry on Sept. 16 for Zone 3 Press’s First Book Award Poetry Reading at Austin Peay State University.

The Community School of the Arts (CSA) at Austin Peay State University has unveiled its fall class slate, including four new offerings - beginning ceramics, monthly figure drawing sessions and in-person and virtual creative writing classes.

At 1 p.m. today, Puerto Rican poet Dr. Ricardo Nazario y Colón will visit Austin Peay State University's Morgan University Center, Room 307, today to deliver the keynote lecture, "A Puerto Rican/Latinx Journey in Appalachia," at the 2021 Asanbe Diversity Symposium.

Austin Peay State University's Southeastern Grasslands Initiative (SGI) recently partnered with the Tennessee Department of Transportation's (TDOT) Pollinator Habitat Program on a conservation project that brought nectar-bearing prairies to the strips of land abutting Exit 1 in Clarksville. SGI was contracted by TDOT in 2019 with a $150,000 grant to identify, plant and assist in cultivating natural pollination locations along Tennessee's highways.

Constitution Day commemorates the day the country's Founding Fathers adopted the U.S. Constitution in 1787, and Dr. Carole Bucy's talk will celebrate another important milestone - women winning the right to vote.

The Austin Peay State University College of STEM has earned an interdisciplinary Research in Undergraduate Institution (RUI) grant from the National Science Foundation to send 18 students to three universities in Europe that specialize in nano and glass technology.

Happening this week: Several welcome back events accompany the Asanbe Diversity Symposium, a free vaccine clinic and an exhibition of Austin Peay's recent art acquisitions.

Austin Peay is hosting an open vaccine clinic from 1-3 p.m. today, Aug. 30, in the Foy Fitness & Recreation Center on campus.

The Department of Art + Design at Austin Peay State University is excited to announce its 2021-22 season of exhibitions and visiting speakers. Generously supported by the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA), the Department of Art + Design can bring nationally/internationally recognized artists and thinkers directly to Clarksville with programming that is free and open to the public.

As an Urban Leaders Fellow this summer, Dr. James Thompson helped develop a proposed policy that provided reparations to the survivors of the Tulsa Massacre and their descendants.

Students will be required to use this endowment as a one-time award to complete their degree. The APSU Scholarship Committee will determine the recipients of the scholarship based on financial need.

The Austin Peay State University William E. & Sadako S. Newton Military Family Resource Center - the state's largest military student center - is open, and the APSU community is invited to visit and tour the facility at 11:30 a.m. today, Aug. 27, during a special open house.

Alexandra Wills, director of the Center for Service-Learning and Community Engagement at Austin Peay State University, is building the university's first outdoor classroom, and it's right in Austin Peay's backyard. A handful of natural paths converge behind the Dunn Center and lead to the Outdoor Education Center.

After she passed away at the age of 84 on Aug. 17, 2020, the Robert Busby Music Endowment and the Doreen Carter Estate Agriculture Fund of Excellence Endowment were officially created

The downloadable exhibition presents the history of 9/11, its origins and its ongoing implications through the personal stories of those who witnessed and survived the attacks.

To be eligible, students must be enrolled full-time at APSU and pursuing a teacher education licensure. Applicants must also have junior or senior status, demonstrate financial need and have a GPA of at least 3.5.

Since students started moving back to campus, they've had dozens of activities to choose from to get connected to university community life. Here are a few images from Austin Peay's pre-semester events.

In its 35th year, the center remains an opportunity for Austin Peay, for Clarksville and Montgomery County and beyond. Since its inception in 1986, the center has expanded from a focus on the fauna and flora of the Land Between the Lakes to establishing a footprint across the United States, such as with the Southeastern Grasslands Initiative - which since 2017 has worked to restore thousands of acres of grasslands from Texas to New Jersey.

Austin Peay's Center of Excellence for Field Biology lost one of its founding members, Dr. Floyd Scott, earlier this year. "He was the closest thing to a brother that I ever had," said Dr. Eugene Wofford, a longtime botanist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. "He was a very kind, very compassionate person, and I miss him dearly."

We made it to another fall semester, Govs! Don't forget that masks are required in University buildings and vaccines are the best defense against COVID-19 and its variants. You can get a COVID-19 vaccine by appointment from 1-3 p.m. on Thursdays afternoons at APSU's Boyd Health Services.

The award honors two faculty members, one for excellence in teaching and the other for excellence in research.

These special visits will take place from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on Sept. 8, Oct. 6, Nov. 3 and Dec. 1, in APSU's Newton Military Family Resource Center.

The 5,200-square-foot building at 426 College St., next to Johnny's Big Burger, is now open, making Austin Peay State University home to the largest military student center in Tennessee.

The Maynards have expanded their commitment to APSU by contributing significant gifts to establish the Dr. Joe E Maynard, Sr. Education Endowment and the George J. Reed, Sr. Veterans Scholarship Endowment.

In late July, the center conducted three GoTags - Getting Off To A Good Start - workshops for 90 regional, K-12 rural teachers at sites in their home counties.

Austin Peay is hosting an open vaccine clinic from 1-3 p.m. today in the Foy Fitness & Recreation Center. The clinic is open to anyone who wants the vaccine or a booster shot (currently available only to immunocompromised people).

This fall, the center will open in a larger suite of offices on the first floor of the Morgan University Center, with the newly renovated space offering a computer lab, a quiet study area, a lactation room and much more.

With the encouragement of one of his physics professors, Jason Rivas entered one of his senior-year research projects into the prestigious Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2021 (PEARC21) conference, and his poster was one of 16 selected.

The University accessioned over 150 new pieces into APSU's Art Collection within the past five years. The exhibition features 125 pieces of donated, gifted and purchased works of art and includes artists such as Ansel Adams, Deborah Gould Hall, Bonnie Schiffman, Albert Watson, Frank Paulin, Michel Thersiquel, Khari Turner, Gamaliel Rodriquez, Philippe Salaün, Karen Seapker, Carl E. Moore and many more.

A new room in the Morgan University Center and two lactation pods on campus represent APSU's new commitment to providing students, faculty and staff with a suitable place to breastfeed or pump.

The community responses to this 10-question survey will help guide University administrators over the next few months as they reevaluate Austin Peay's mission, vision and strategic plan.

The Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Austin Peay State University is celebrating its 50th year. To mark the occasion, each month through the end of the year, we'll share one story of a Governor's Guard alumni or former leader. This month, we share the story of APSU alumnus retired Brig. Gen. Remo Butler.

The exhibit will include more than 150 pieces accepted into Austin Peay State University's art collection during the last five years. Pieces include art from Ansel Adams, Deborah Gould Hall, Bonnie Schiffman, Albert Watson, Michel Thersiquel, Khari Turner, Gamaliel Rodriguez, Philippe Salaün and Karen Seapker.

On Aug. 16, Austin Peay State University President Mike Licari honored several outstanding faculty members during an awards ceremony in the Mabry Concert Hall.

This October, during Austin Peay State University's 2021 Homecoming celebration, the University will honor six distinguished individuals with this year's APSU Alumni Awards.

The more powerful system uses innovative "text-to-speech technology that provides clearly annunciated emergency notifications."

As Austin Peay State University students continue to move in for the fall semester, the Clarksville campus is getting busier. Starting Friday, campus will be abuzz with students celebrating APEX weekend.

This year, organizers are adding a new event open to the community - a car show and meet-up - to go along with the usual featured events at APEX weekend ahead of the first day of classes.

The Ball will be at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 12, 2022, in Nashville, and in preparation for this event, APSU has announced the two winners of the 2022 Candlelight Ball Awards.

Each day included time for goal setting, independent writing and accountability checks, and guest speakers included Black tenured APSU professors, Provost Maria Cronley and other university representatives.

The group of 60 guests who attended the event included state and local government officials, leaders in education, as well as APSU supporters, leadership, faculty and staff.

At 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 1, he'll visit Austin Peay State University's Morgan University Center, Room 307, to deliver the keynote lecture, "A Puerto Rican/Latinx Journey in Appalachia,"

Austin Peay State University has reinstated a mask requirement for the campus' indoor facilities. Masks do not need to be worn outside, in private offices, individual study/practice rooms or in residence halls.

The center, which is part of the APSU College of Business, could be difficult to find, so in an effort to better serve this area, it recently relocated to 211 South Second St.

Austin Peay State University's Office of Equity, Access and Inclusion (OEAI) has invited University employees the opportunity to attend Title IX sessions and to help the office with future Title IX investigations.

On Aug. 6, Austin Peay State University celebrated two of its Army Reserved Officers' Training Corps students with a commissioning ceremony that followed the University's summer commencement.

Children's mental health is underserved. That's part of the reason why Kacy Chambers, an Austin Peay State University alumna of Interdisciplinary Studies K-8, wrote two self-help books and two journals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shirley West, 69, went back to school alongside her grandson, Bailey West, 25, and they walked across the commencement stage together on Friday, Aug. 6, each earning an Associate of Applied Science.