Austin Peay Chemistry Department

07/10/2026

06/30/2026

https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/chemists-earth-week-2026/104/web/2026/06

ACS members promote the positive role that chemistry plays in the world

05/09/2026

Today we celebrate our graduates! 🎓

To our chemistry majors: thank you for the countless hours in the lab, the perseverance through challenging courses, the curiosity you brought to every experiment, and the community you helped build within our department. We are so proud of you, and we will truly miss you! 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬❤️

And to the students who may have only spent a semester or two with us in chemistry classes: we are proud of you too. Thank you for the moments you shared with our department and for the impact you made while you were here! 👏

Congratulations to all of today’s graduates. We cannot wait to see where life takes you next! ❤️

05/06/2026

At our recent department awards banquet, one of our students, Eric (an XEM officer), surprised Dr. Matthews with a brand-new honor: “The Nicest Guy Award.”

Moments like this are what make our department special. Our students continually inspire us—not just with their hard work, but with their thoughtfulness and sense of community.

Dr. Matthews is an invaluable part of our department, and this recognition couldn’t be more fitting. We have a feeling this award will be proudly framed and displayed for years to come next to the new NMR!

Congratulations, Dr. Matthews—and thank you to our amazing students for making this such a memorable moment.

05/01/2026

Our second lab tour yesterday was at Aegis Sciences Corporation. This is a tour we have been able to take part in year after year. The main change each year is the amount of automation, instrumentation, and alumni! We LOVED seeing our alumni yesterday. Stacey did an amazing job allowing our students to speak candidly about future jobs, and it was great to see Tony and Andrew as well! Thank you so much for hosting our group of Organic and Instrumental students!!

05/01/2026

A group of Instrumental and Organic students had the privilege of touring Tennessee Department of Agriculture yesterday! Our first tour was led by one of our fabulous alumna, Page, and we loved seeing her! The amount of diversity in research and testing was wonderful for our students to see. There were so many applications in the world of chemistry, biology, and metrology that our students connected to immediately. Thank you so much for hosting us!

04/27/2026

Are you passionate about teaching Introductory and General Chemistry? If so, please consider applying for our visiting instructor position starting August 2026!

Link to apply in comments.

04/27/2026

We are so proud of all the hard work our research students perform every week. Congratulations to Georgia, who presented an oral seminar, and to our poster presenters: Holly, Logan, Lucas, James, and David! Other chemistry students presented their research performed with other departments, and we are just as proud of them. Once a chemist, always a chemist!!

04/23/2026

Bailey is the absolute BEST!! We are so thankful that Bailey is our Adminstrative Assistant! 😍

Happy Administrative Professionals Day to our incredible CoSTEM team!

Mary Biggers, Sherry Bagwell, Crystal Erdmenger, Jamie Gaither, Josie Harbert, Bailey Harrison, Jess Langston, and Patty Mason—you're the heroes who keep our college running smoothly every single day.

Please join us in thanking them for all they do!