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.

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'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.

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.

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."

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.

To revive the 230-year-old lost world of Middle Tennessee, the two organizations are studying the original, hand-drawn maps and notes surveyors made of the region between 1789 and 1804.

An Austin Peay State University alumna, Angel Fowler, has been selected as a finalist in the 2020 Nashville Emerging Leader Awards (NELA) in the Environment and Sustainability category.

Austin Peay team's paper about using an escape game-style lab experience to help chemistry students learn to solve "a real, complex and multistep problem" earns publication in the Journal of Chemical Education.

Austin Peay State University hosted a girls-preferred coding camp this summer to give girls or young women a space to feel more comfortable in an often boy-dominated experience.

This fall, Dr. Catherine Haase, Austin Peay State University assistant professor of biology, will teach a class that explores the science portrayed in blockbuster Hollywood movies, specifically putting critical thought to how the science in the movies stacks up to real science.

The most popular of Austin Peay State University's summer coding camps - "Learning Programming with Minecraft" for middle schoolers - filled up within days of registration opening.

During the first week of the Governor's School for Computational Physics at Austin Peay State University, high school juniors and seniors got an opportunity to learn from two of the university's high-achieving physics graduates.

A black Robinson R44 helicopter emblazoned with the Austin Peay State University logo swooped low over a cheering crowd at the Clarksville-Montgomery County Regional Airport on Friday morning. The aircraft, the newest addition to APSU's growing helicopter fleet, carried Austin Peay President Michael Licari and his special guest, F&M Bank President and CEO Sammy Stuard, to a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new APSU Aviation Science Facility at the airport.

The Governor's School for Computational Physics returned for the 13th straight year to Austin Peay State University this week, but this year brought something new - a sense of normalcy.

Dozens of area middle schoolers already have taken advantage of this summer's Google-supported coding camps at Austin Peay State University.

Anyone who wants to attend the camps can sign up at a steep discount. The first half of campers who sign up will get a 90% discount off the normal $99 price. All other campers will get a 60% discount.

Dr. Catherine Haase will present "Moose, Wolves and Bats, Oh My!" and will explain how mathematical models can help us unravel the effects of disease on animal energetics.

Dr. Leslie Hiatt's quantitative analysis chemistry students at Austin Peay State University had a mystery to solve - identify the department's copper thief. But this mystery came with a tantalizing reward. If the students found the copper thief, they also "escaped" the class's lab work.

The Physics and Astronomy Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) named Jarres Plummer as one of only five recipients of the Barlow Undergraduate Research Support Awards.

This spring, 11 undergraduate and graduate students worked with APSU's Dr. Sergei Markov to publish a paper that shares the team's work with the three bacteriophages they found in Clarksville and lovingly named Danno, Otwor and Scumberland.

Austin Peay State University's Science on Tap lecture series continues virtually on April 6 when Dr. Dwayne Estes offers a look at the Southeastern Grasslands Initiative (SGI) based at APSU.

The technology giant awarded Dr. Meagan Mann, associate professor of chemistry, $40,000 to provide free Algebra I and chemistry tutoring to CMCSS high school students.

A four-year study recently published in Ecology and Evolution concludes that the fungal disease, white-nose syndrome, poses a severe threat to many western North American bats.

Science on Tap will return 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, to revisit the COVID-19 discussion. This time, however, the event will be virtual - delivered via Zoom webinar - and include a panel discussion to take on the urgency and hope of new vaccines to stop the virus.

Austin Peay State University physics alumnus Billy Teets ('04) has been promoted to director of Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory.

APSU alumnus Dr. Ronald Miller ('65) wrote this personal account of how, in the fall of 1964, APSU physics students and faculty were the first to detect China's atomic bomb test.

The Health Professions Building will consolidate the APSU School of Nursing and the departments of allied health sciences, psychological science and counseling, health and human performance and social work into one facility.

The College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at Austin Peay State University on Friday released a diversity and inclusion statement and pledged to fight "any form of racism, discrimination or prejudice."