Category: Student News

  • Athens State University Honors Students for Summer 2023 Semester

    Athens State University Honors Students for Summer 2023 Semester

    Athens State University is delighted to honor the students who have been named to the President’s List and Dean’s List for the Summer 2023 semester. Through much hard work and determination, these students excelled in their coursework and achieved remarkable academic success. The list of honors students is linked below. Students are listed by hometown.…

  • Athens State TEACH Launches to Prepare Next Generation of STEM Teachers

    Athens State TEACH Launches to Prepare Next Generation of STEM Teachers

    Athens State University’s College of Education and College of Arts and Sciences have collaborated to launch Athens State TEACH, based on the widely-recognized UTeach Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) teacher preparation program. This new program is designed to prepare more STEM teachers to meet the STEM teacher shortage in Alabama. Athens State TEACH will…

  • Athens State and Calhoun Community College Establish Fast-Track BSN Program

    Athens State and Calhoun Community College Establish Fast-Track BSN Program

    Calhoun Community College and Athens State University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a new fast-track BSN program that will allow students to receive their Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) and Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree simultaneously. In addition to better serving students, the program’s benefits will extend to the consumers…

  • Athens State graduate Carrie Trousdale became nurse to show compassion

    Her mother’s illness inspired Carrie Trousdale to pursue a nursing degree at Athens State University and go into the medical field, determined to be a nurse who shows her patients compassion and care. “My mother is a Type I diabetic, and she was in and out of the hospital so much and you can see…

  • The Athenian Players to present “The Rocket Men” by Crystal Skillman

    The Athenian Players to present “The Rocket Men” by Crystal Skillman

    In the first-ever play commissioned by the Alabama Center for the Arts, acclaimed NYC playwright, Crystal Skillman explores the German Rocket Team that was instrumental in the development of the US Space Program turning the small farming community of Huntsville, Alabama into “Rocket City, USA”. This new play commission, created for Athens State University and…

  • Athens State Student Publishes Research Paper

    Athens State Student Publishes Research Paper

    Athens State biology and honors student, Evan Marth, published a paper in Gulf and Caribbean Research, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal. This paper is the result of Marth’s summer Research Experience for Undergraduates position at Dauphin Island Sea Lab. The Biology Program at Athens State strives to provide meaningful experiential learning opportunities through undergraduate research projects,…

  • Athens State University Honors Students for Fall 2022 Semester

    Dateline: February 2, 2023, Athens, AL – Athens State University is delighted to honor the students who have been named to the President’s List and Dean’s List for the Fall 2022 semester. Through much hard work and determination, these students excelled in their coursework and achieved remarkable academic success. The list of honors students is…

  • More students in Athens State’s new program for nursing bachelor’s degrees

    Amberly Taylor fell in love with caring for others as a child, and it led to her becoming a nurse and the first person in her family to attend college.

  • Taylor Jordan Completes HudsonAlpha BioTrain Internship Program

    Taylor Jordan Completes HudsonAlpha BioTrain Internship Program

    As Athens State is committed to student success, it thrills us to congratulate Taylor Jordan on her completion of the HudsonAlpha BioTrain Internship program this summer. During her time at HudsonAlpha, Taylor worked as a Genomics Lab Assistant in Dr. Richard Meyers’ lab with Dr. Emily Ross on a complementary method to Chip-seq using the…