The first cohort of 13 working professionals enrolled in MTSU’s Applied Leadership Certificate Program were recognized Tuesday by interim Provost Mark Byrnes for reaching the first milestone in their studies. The 13 students completed the first level of a four-certificate program designed by MTSU’s University College to help women and men already in the workforce…
Overall Creek Elementary now boast two greenhouses thanks to a grant from State Farm. The greenhouses purchased with funds from State Farm’s Community Assist Program provide additional outdoor learning environments for students. Students will experience hands-on activities and interact with nature. Teachers will expand their lessons using plants and gardens as contexts for students to…
Baseball has long been America’s pastime and the Boys of Summer are back in action. In the May episode of “Murfreesboro Storytellers,” lifelong Murfreesboro resident and longtime high school coach Jack Jolly recalls memories of his days as a professional MLB talent scout for the Chicago White Sox. Watch the May episode on YouTube athttps://youtu.be/AjO6ODUIF1Y….
MTSU’s William Yelverton won a world championship gold medal and a silver medal at the Indoor World Masters Athletic Championships, in Daegu, South Korea, in late March. A professor of guitar at MTSU’s School of Music in his 28th year, Yelverton has in recent years competed in masters level track and field events on the…
Five members of the Middle Tennessee State University equestrian team will be competing in the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association national event May 4-7 at Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky. The IHSA nationals are a culmination of regional competitions for 400 college and university programs and 9,100-plus riders. At the regions, the top two riders…
Murfreesboro, TN, May 3rd, 2017 – On Thursday, May 4th, Rutherford County Area Habitat for Humanity will dedicate home #142 in Rutherford County. This home was built with the Benyamin & Morkos Family and is located at 501B W Enon Springs in Smyrna, TN. Site construction for this home began on January 25th and was…
Dr. Josh Taylor, MD, general surgeon, The Surgical Clinic, performed the first robotic transversus abdominus release (rTAR) in the state of Tennessee at TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center in Smyrna, Tennessee, on Friday, April 14, 2017. The rTAR is an advanced procedure to repair a complex hernia. A hernia is a weakness or hole in the…
Business Education Partnership Foundation Chairman Emil Hassan has read every single teacher minigrant proposal for the past 28 years. Like our society, the grant requests have changed. “I remember the time when you were (doing good) to get one to help improve math education and science,” he said at the spring awards breakfast for the…
A 28-year-old man wanted for murder and in connection to an ongoing AMBER Alert has been taken into police custody in Nashville. Daniel Clark was found in a wood line at Old Hickory Boulevard and Charlotte Pike. Missing Trinity Quinn, who had been missing since Tuesday and was at the center on the AMBER Alert,…
Deputies are searching for a 16-year-old runaway in Cheatham County. The Cheatham County Sheriff’s Office reported Ashlee Taylor left her home in Champmansboro in the early morning hours on Sunday. The sheriff said Ashlee has family in Goodlettsville, Nashville, Murfreesboro and Manchester. Anyone with information is asked to contact Cheatham County dispatch at 615-792-2098. Courtesy…