Steven Livingston

Almost $1.4B in Tenn. exports could be targeted in trade war: MTSU professor

Steven Livingston, associate director of MTSU’s Business and Economic Research Center, recently outlined potential impacts on Tennessee exports from a trade war. According to Livingston, Tennessee exports worth $1.38 billion are on the lists of goods that the EU, China, Canada, and Mexico will retaliate against following President Donald Trump’s recent decisions to impose tariffs…

MTSU's Lisa Schrader receives award

MTSU’s Schrader lands top state honor for alcohol, drug, violence prevention

MTSU’s Lisa Schrader, director of Health Promotion, has been presented a statewide award by the Coalition for Healthy and Safe Campus Communities. The Susanna L. Baxter Drug, Alcohol, and Violence Prevention in Higher Education Award is given every two years to a person in the state of Tennessee who, like Baxter, “has volunteered his or…

Dr. Nimal Patel

Dr. Nimal Patel joins Saint Thomas Medical Partners

Nimal Patel, D.O., gastroenterologist, has joined Saint Thomas Medical Partners, practicing at the DePaul location in Murfreesboro. Saint Thomas Health is a part of Ascension, the world’s largest Catholic health system and one of the largest non-profit health systems in the country. Dr. Patel has a special interest in aiding patients who experience gastrointestinal disorders….

MTSU Star Party Mars Opposition

Get rare close-up look at ‘the red planet’ Friday during special Star Party at MTSU

MTSU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy will be giving the public a chance to get a closer look at Mars and other planets during “opposition” on Friday, July 27, for this month’s Star Party event. From 8 to 11 p.m. Friday, the public can view Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and the moon at the MTSU Observatory…

Camp Ability of Special Kids

MTSU Women’s Basketball Hosted Clinic at Camp Ability of Special Kids

On Friday, July 20, the MTSU Women’s basketball team and staff hosted a basketball clinic for children and youth with special needs attending Camp ability of Special Kids. There are 80 campers with special needs ages 6-25 years attending Camp Ability of Special Kids this summer. “We are grateful to the entire MTSU women’s basketball…

EYH Pearl the Bulldog

Registration continues for girls’ Oct. 27 math-science event at MTSU

Registration is underway for the 22nd annual Expanding Your Horizons in Math and Science Conference at MTSU, which will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, on the Middle Tennessee State University campus. Middle school and high school girls — rising sixth- through 12th-graders — from across the Midstate are welcome…