Fall 2008 - Austin Peay State University

36 students attend inaugural Governor’s School in
Computational Physics for five weeks at APSU
Clarksville native, earned a Bachelor of
Science in psychology in 2005. When she
decided to enroll in APSU’s graduate program,
she knew she wanted to concentrate on
training and development. The flexibility of
the online format enabled Purdom to begin
her career before completing her master’s
degree.
As training specialist for Servpro Industries
Inc. in Gallatin, Purdom assists with the new
franchise training program and manages the
business model.
For five weeks in Summer 2008, 36 high
school students were at Austin Peay State
University for Tennessee’s Governor’s School
in Computational Physics.
Funded by the state, Governor’s Schools
are designed for gifted high school students
with each school providing challenging,
intensive learning experiences in specific disciplines.
The Governor’s School in
Computational Physics, approved late last
summer, is APSU’s first Governor’s School.
Computational physics combines physics,
computer science and applied mathematics to
provide scientific solutions to complex problems.
Taking two intensive courses, participants
earned eight hours of college credit and
took trips to such computational research centers
as Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s
National Center for Computational Sciences
and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Austin Peay’s department of physics and
astronomy, one of the first in the U.S. to implement
a required course in Computation
Methods, has earned a reputation for recruiting,
retaining and placing students in prestigious fellowships,
assistantships and doctoral programs.
Bill Persinger
Fort Campbell Center
adds 5th term
To accommodate soldiers’ schedules better,
Austin Peay State University will add a fifth
term to its satellite campus at Fort Campbell,
Ky., beginning Fall I 2008.
“We are trying to enhance the course offerings
for our soldiers and provide a better
opportunity for them to work on their
degrees,” said Dr. Bill Cox, executive director
of the APSU Center @ Fort Campbell. “We
think a fifth term will help with that.”
Cox likened the fifth term to a “true summer
term” because the Fort Campbell Center
currently does not have a summer semester.
Until now, the Center’s Spring II term extended
into early summer around June, and the
Fall I term immediately followed.
4 art students named
ADDY Award winners
Four graphic design students at Austin
Peay State University advanced to district
competition after winning awards at the 2008
Nashville ADDY Awards.
Ryan Sample, Courtney Zenner, Carole
Beekman and Raymond Datugan all earned
honors for work completed the last two
semesters in graphic design classes taught by
David Bieloh. They will compete at the district
level against winners in other markets
from Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi and Tennessee.
“This is an incredible accomplishment for
our students this year, considering there were
more than 400 entries submitted in this year’s
competition,” Bieloh said. “We in the art
department are all very proud.”
The ADDY Awards is the largest creative
competition in the country with about 55,000
local entries competing in more than 200
cities coast to coast. Winning at the district
level is the second step in competing for a
national ADDY trophy. Any entry that wins a
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