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."

Students who have graduated from high schools located in Stewart or Montgomery counties are eligible to receive this scholarship. Applicants must be enrolled full-time at APSU with a major in agriculture.

Prescribed fire is helping to protect more than 350 species of plants, pollinators and other wildlife that thrive at a restored prairie in north Tennessee.

An Austin Peay State University statistics instructor for years has used his woodworking skills and engineering know-how to build mathematical models - real-world 3D representations of the math - to help his students learn. And over the summer, he built his latest learning tool - a Galton Board.

Dr. Leslie Hiatt, a chemistry professor at Austin Peay State University, spent some of the summer transforming a scrapped glass door into a learning tool for students forced to take online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Austin Peay State University's professional mad scientist, Bryan Gaither, had a national audience on Thursday. The Society of Physics Students (SPS) - a national professional association designed for college students - invited Gaither to host a virtual science demonstration for the group via Zoom.

On a sticky August morning, Austin Peay State University's professional mad scientist traveled to Gainsboro, Tennessee, to help Michael Vigeant's middle school students launch a science balloon over 106,000 feet into the sky.

Earlier this summer, students at Austin Peay's Governor's School for Computational Physics got a special surprise delivered to their front doors: a telegram from the school.

On a sunny but chilly January afternoon, Austin Peay physics students sent two jars of Cascade hops 93,000 feet into the stratosphere. Strawberry Alley Ale Works used those hops to make its Stratobeer.

Each summer, Bryan Gaither orchestrates several science demonstrations during the Governor's School for Computational Physics.

SGI seeks to integrate research, consultation and education, along with the administration of grants, to create innovative solutions to address issues facing Southeastern grasslands.

Last year APSU broke the 1,000 graduate student barrier and current enrollment looks even more promising. APSU is experiencing higher graduate student enrollment compared to last year at this time.

To give this year's 37 high-achieving high school Governor's School students as rich a college experience as possible, APSU's Dr. B. Alex King invited seven science professors from across campus to give presentations.

The Governor's School for Computational Physics returned for the 12th straight year to Austin Peay State University this week, but something was much, much different than in previous years. This year's Governor's School is entirely online.