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At about 4:30 a.m. CDT Thursday, June 20, Austin Peay State University's first-ever space payload launched. Austin Peay physics professor Dr. Justin Oelgoetz and two APSU physics students - Zach Hill and Zach Givens - built the payload during Rocket Week at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
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For the first time in its 92-year history, Austin Peay State University has a payload bound for space. The experiment is in a NASA rocket scheduled for launch at 4:30 a.m. CDT Thursday.
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Students at the Governor's School for Computational Physics learned what it's like to walk on water this week at Austin Peay State University.
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Kindergartners through fifth-graders have been learning how to program all week at Austin Peay's coding camps. On Thursday, they got class time with robots.
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The 36 high school students attending the Governor's School for Computational Physics at Austin Peay got a rare treat this week - a surprise landing of one of the school's helicopters.
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Movies in the Park is back Saturday, June 8, at Heritage Park, and scientists from Austin Peay's College of STEM will pay tribute to the feature film - 'Beauty and the Beast' - in a special way.
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Austin Peay's Brinna Lavelle will compete in judo July 6-7 at the World University Games in Naples, Italy.
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For the first time during their three-week stay at Austin Peay, Governor's School for Computational Physics students stepped into the classroom on Monday for their classwork.
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This fall, a 12-hour graduate certificate in Biometrics and Clinical Trials Operations will be offered online exclusively through Austin Peay State University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
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Computer science students from Austin Peay State University currently rank ninth nationally and No. 1 in the state in a nationwide cybersecurity program for college students and graduates.
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When recent Austin Peay graduate Jordan Miller starts at Arizona State University this year, she'll also enter a cutting-edge National Science Foundation smart homes and cities program. The program is part of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT) program, designed to encourage the development of new models of STEM graduate education training.
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To qualify for the scholarship, students must be freshmen enrolled full-time with a major in agriculture and a 2.85 GPA. They also must be residents of Robertson County or Hardin County.
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For years, students living outside of Tennessee paid about $11,000 per semester, but a new rate cuts that amount to just under $6,200 for 12 credit hours.
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What is a scientist? That's the question Dr. Karen Meisch, interim dean of Austin Peay's College of STEM, and her team answered this week with 140 Sango Elementary first-graders, who visited campus May 9 for a morning of scientific demonstrations.
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Austin Peay junior Jane Seage is heading to Transylvania this summer. The physics and classics double-major will conduct a multifaceted and large research project using ground-penetrating radar at an ancient Roman villa in Romania.
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Two Austin Peay State University professors have been chosen for the prestigious Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program. They are among five from Tennessee and 51 from the United States and Canada who will travel to Africa this summer to help universities in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda.
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New York University history of science professor Dr. Matthew Stanley will visit Austin Peay State University on April 22 to deliver a lecture on "Albert Einstein's War: How World War I Made Relativity." He'll also plant a space gummy tree at noon on campus - Monday also is Earth Day.
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Michael Hunter, lead pilot for The Drone Club at Austin Peay, finished 22nd overall and sixth in his bracket at the Collegiate Drone Racing Association nationals - in the school's first season of competitive racing.
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Austin Peay senior Susan Kersten recently won "Best Solo Hack" at the CatHacks hackathon at the University of Kentucky, and her teammates won second place overall at the competition for hack that helps teach people sign language.
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Austin Peay State University's aviation science program recently received approval for veterans education benefits, meaning veterans can earn the degree at "little or no cost." The program - which has a concentration in helicopters (or rotor wing) - is Tennessee's first rotorcraft flight school that offers a bachelor's degree.
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About 90 fifth-graders buzzed in anticipation on a recent Friday morning in a Sundquist Science Center classroom at Austin Peay State University. "This room is used for college classes, and we teach biology here, but you guys are in charge of this space today," an APSU biology professor said. "You are a scientist today. You are a scientist every day, but especially today."
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On a Thursday afternoon, APSU students Harrison Welch, Gretchen Heinzelman, David Nikolao and Mackenzie Rose hosted a science show for the Little Govs Child Learning Center.
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