Austin Peay Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy

08/17/2026

Students and staff from Rzeszow University (Poland) visited Austin Peay State University's Physics, Engineering and Astronomy Department this Summer within EU-funded Erasmus+ project. Angelika Loza and Wiktor Trojanowski spent a week in PEA labs working under the supervision of Dr. Roman Holovchak.

12/05/2025

Congratulations to our two PEA majors that were awarded OSRI SRG Grants to pursue their research: Justin Edwards and Nikoli Sheffield. Great job!

10/26/2025

APSU student Steven Warth spent his summer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory developing computational methods to speed up fusion reactor simulations. Warth found himself in a different world from typical undergraduate research. This was not about learning techniques or following established protocols. His mentors expected him to tackle genuine research problems with real implications for fusion energy development.

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09/22/2025

09/22/2025

Summer STEM Travels | Ross Rodriguez earned a coveted Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) through the Department of Energy, spending his summer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory studying eco-friendly plastics!

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06/05/2025

Physics graduate Amaya Caudel has been selected for a prestigious summer internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, marking another milestone in her impressive research career.

Caudel, who completed three Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) programs during her time as an undergraduate, will be working on computational materials research focusing on titanium aluminum. Her project will leverage the speed of machine learning algorithms by training them off of highly accurate Density Functional Theory (DFT) outputs.

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05/13/2025

Congratulations to all our graduates!