Category: Student News
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Athens State Offering New Playwriting Class This Fall
Beginning Fall 2022, Athens State is offering an online Playwriting class taught by award winning playwright, Crystal Skillman. This course is a study and practice in the art and skills of playwriting. The student will learn to write plays by workshopping and writing dramatic scenes, outlines, and one-act plays. Crystal is an award winning playwright…
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Spring 2022 Honors Students
Athens State University is delighted to honor the students who have been named to the President’s List and Provost’s List for the Spring 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 linked below. Students are listed by hometown.
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Athens State Students Place First at HudsonAlpha CODE Student Symposium
Students from across Alabama presented at the HudsonAlpha CODE Symposium on April 29. Two Athens State students earned First Place Presentation and First Place Undergraduate Poster. Camille Greer, Senior Bioinformatics Major, won first place undergraduate poster for her poster “Molecular dynamic analysis of three CAPN3 variants associated with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy in comparison to one…
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Athens State Students Win Competitions at Alabama Academy of Science Conference
Athens State University had the honor of hosting the 99th Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science from March 16-18, 2022. Students from across the state of Alabama competed at the conference, and several students from Athens State University earned awards in their fields. Winners from Athens State include: Biological Sciences: Evan Marth (Honors…
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Athens State to Host 99th Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science
Athens State University will be hosting the 99th Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science from March 16-18, 2022. Members from the Alabama Academy of Science (AAS), Alabama Junior Academy of Science (AJAS), and Gorgas will be in attendance. Dr. Jan Davis, retired aerospace professional with experience as an astronaut, engineer, and senior manager,…
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The Athenian Players to Present “Love’s Fire”
The Athenian Players invite you to join them for their Spring 2021 performance of Love’s Fire: Seven Plays Inspired by Seven Shakespeare Sonnets, featuring original works by Eric Bogosian, William Finn, John Guare, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange, and Wendy Wasserstein. Described as “a reimaging of Shakespeare’s poems through the creative minds of seven…
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Psychology Students Engage with the Community to Give Back
Each semester, students from the Department of Behavioral Sciences/Psychology intern at various sites within the community. Also, students are required to complete a service project at the end of the internship. According to Dr. Vanessa Miller, professor, and internship coordinator, “The goal of the project is to help the site meet a need; and to…
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“LOOK” Senior Art Exhibit to be Held Virtually
Athens State University faculty, staff, and students at the Alabama Center for the Arts have had to adjust to a “less-than-ideal” ending to the spring semester thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. On-ground classes transitioned to online formats and all in-person events were canceled. This consequently affected the bi-annual “LOOK” senior art exhibit, which was planned…
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Athens State University Earns Tree Campus USA Recognition
Athens State University has received the honor of being recognized by Tree Campus USA for the year 2019 by promoting healthy trees and engaging students and staff in forestry conservation efforts. Its campus is one of 12 college campuses across Alabama to meet the qualifications for this recognition. Tree Campus USA is a national program…
