Topic: Hurricane Katrina

This Week at APSU: Take a tour to see a new Art Exhibit or the Campus Arboretum

January 25, 2021 |

Clarksville, TN – The Katrina Chronicles – “a densely narrative exhibition where artist/storyteller Peter Precourt presents a series of personal stories as a way of dealing with his experience of losing most of his possessions and artwork in the devastation that Hurricane Katrina” – is open at Austin Peay State University’s The New Gallery through February 12th.

Austin Peay State University Campus. (APSU)

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APSU offers Virtual Tour of ‘The Katrina Chronicles’ led by the artist, Peter Precourt

January 25, 2021 |

Clarksville, TN – The Katrina Chronicles – “a densely narrative exhibition where artist/storyteller Peter Precourt presents a series of personal stories as a way of dealing with his experience of losing most of his possessions and artwork in the devastation that Hurricane Katrina” – is open at the Austin Peay State University (APSU) The New Gallery through February 12th, 2021.

Austin Peay State University to off virtual tour ‘The Katrina Chronicles’ through February 12th.

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Tennessee Vols Football plays LSU at Neyland Stadium Saturday

November 17, 2017 |

Tennessee vs. #20 LSU

Saturday, November 18th, 2017 | 6:00pm CT
Knoxville, TN | Neyland Stadium | TV: ESPN

Knoxville, TN – Tennessee takes on No. 20 LSU on Saturday at Neyland Stadium. The game will feature a 6:00pm CT kickoff on ESPN.

Bob Wischusen (play-by-play) and Brock Huard (analyst) will be in the booth and Allison Williams will report from the sidelines. Vol Network radio affiliates will have a live audio broadcast with Bob Kesling, Tim Priest, Brent Hubbs and Maddy Glab. Sirius Channel 138 and XM Channel 190 will also carry a live audio broadcast.

Tennessee (4-6, 0-6 SEC) is coming off a 50-17 road loss to Missouri on November 11th.

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APSU Students complete over 200 hours of community service work in New Orleans

January 25, 2017 |

Clarksville, TN – A group of Austin Peay State University students spent a week volunteering on Alternative Break Trips through the APSU Center for Service-Learning & Community Engagement at the end of the winter break.

Collectively, these students completed more than 200 hours of community service with several organizations in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Austin Peay Students worked with the New Orleans Audubon Nature Institute and volunteered with many of its branches, including the Audubon Zoo, the Aquarium of the Americas and the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered.

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Austin Peay State University’s Victor Felts presented with SEIFC’s highest honor

February 27, 2016 |

Clarksville, TN – Victor Felts, director of Student Life and Engagement at Austin Peay State University, was presented with the Dr. Karlem Riess Award during this month’s Southeastern Interfaternity Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Dr. Karlem Riess Award is the highest honor bestowed to an individual by the Southeastern Interfraternity Conference.

APSU’s Victor Felts

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NASA and University Researchers may have found strong Link between Amazon Fires and Devastating Hurricanes

August 25, 2015 |

Written by Brian Bell
University of California at Irvine

Irvine, CA – Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and NASA have uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage North Atlantic shorelines.

The climate scientists’ findings are appearing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters near the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s calamitous August 2005 landfall at New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

This map of ocean surface temperatures shows how warm waters in the North Atlantic fueled Hurricane Katrina. NASA and UCI researchers have found that the same conditions heighten fire risk in the Amazon basin. (Scientific Visualization Studio, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

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NASA improves Storm Models and Forecasting since hurricane Katrina

August 24, 2015 |

Written by Kasha Patel
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Greenbelt, MD – On August 28th, 2005, the National Hurricane Center issued a public notice warning people in New Orleans of “devastating damage expected…power outages will last for weeks…persons…pets…and livestock left exposed to the winds will be killed,” from the ensuing Hurricane Katrina.

The storm had formed near the Bahamas and south Florida before becoming a Category 2 hurricane over the Gulf region northwest of Key West. Then, in two days, the hurricane’s winds almost doubled to 175 mph, creating Category 5 Hurricane Katrina— the most intense hurricane in the past 36 years.

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NASA looks back at the July 2012 Solar Superstorm that just missed Earth

July 24, 2014 |

Written by Tony Phillips
Science at NASA

Washington, D.C. – If an asteroid big enough to knock modern civilization back to the 18th century appeared out of deep space and buzzed the Earth-Moon system, the near-miss would be instant worldwide headline news.

Two years ago, Earth experienced a close shave just as perilous, but most newspapers didn’t mention it. The “impactor” was an extreme solar storm, the most powerful in as much as 150+ years.

“If it had hit, we would still be picking up the pieces,” says Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado.

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NASA reports on Intense Solar Storm that barely missed Earth

May 3, 2014 |

Written by Dr. Tony Phillips
Science at NASA

Washington, D.C. – Last month (April 8th-11th), scientists, government officials, emergency planners and others converged on Boulder, Colorado, for NOAA’s Space Weather Workshop—an annual gathering to discuss the perils and probabilities of solar storms.

The current solar cycle is weaker than usual, so you might expect a correspondingly low-key meeting. On the contrary, the halls and meeting rooms were abuzz with excitement about an intense solar storm that narrowly missed Earth.

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Austin Peay State University Unity Celebration to feature speech by acclaimed journalist Soledad O’Brien March 25th

March 10, 2014 |

Clarksville, TN – The award-winning broadcast journalist Soledad O’Brien doesn’t shy away from difficult subjects. Her reporting on Haitian orphanages following a massive earthquake in that country earned her an Emmy, and her work for CNN during Hurricane Katrina brought her and the network a George Foster Peabody Award.

At 7:00pm on March 25th, O’Brien will speak at the Memorial Health Gym (Red Barn) on the Austin Peay State University campus as part of the annual Student Affairs Unity Celebration. O’Brien will deliver a speech titled “Diversity: On TV, Behind the Scenes and In Our Lives.”

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