TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center

TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center Nationally Recognized with an ‘A’ for the Spring 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade

TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center was awarded an ‘A’ in the spring 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a national distinction recognizing TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center’s achievements providing safer health care. The Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog organization committed to health care quality and safety. The Safety Grade is a letter grade assigned to all…

Erma Siegel Elementary STEM designation

Bradley Academy and Erma Siegel Elementary Earn Tennessee Designated STEM School Status

Bradley Academy and Erma Siegel Elementary have been named Tennessee Designated STEM Schools by the Tennessee Department of Education in partnership with the Tennessee STEM Innovation Network. The Tennessee STEM School Designation denotes that a school meets the highest standards of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) instruction and is a model for schools across…

IGBR Research Award 2020

MTSU BERC director Arik presented multiple awards from the Institute for Global Business Research

MTSU faculty member Murat Arik, director of the Business and Economic Research Center, was recently recognized for exemplary service and research with multiple honors from the Institute for Global Business Research. For his supportive role to the organization, Arik was named a recipient of the 2020 IGBR Fellow Award. Serving as editor of IGBR’s Global…

MTSU student Jared Frazier

MTSU ‘scientist in the making’ Frazier earns Goldwater Scholarship

Middle Tennessee State University rising junior Jared Frazier has lofty aspirations to one day attend MIT. That’s the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, whose mission is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology and other areas of scholarship and home to 95 Nobel laureates, 59 National Medal of Science winners and 77…

OnlineU Master's Supply Chain 2020 badge

MTSU online master’s in Supply Chain Management ranked nationally for affordability

MTSU’s online master’s degree in supply chain management has been ranked nationally for affordability. OnlineU, a Washington-based company that provides rankings for a variety of online educational programs, placed the university’s program at No. 15 in its 2020 list of top 25 online master’s degrees in supply chain management. See the complete rankings and other…

MTSU Terletska and Jones

MTSU firsts: Jones, Terletska receive prestigious National Science Foundation grants

MTSU faculty members Seth Jones and Hanna Terletska hold a distinction no other Middle Tennessee State University professors have ever obtained — National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) grant recipients. The NSF CAREER awards support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research, education and the integration of education and research within…

Gifted Cohort 2020

MCS Teachers Receive Gifted Endorsement

Twenty-seven teachers from Murfreesboro City Schools (MCS) received their Tennessee Employment Standard for Gifted Teaching on March 7 after completing the Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) and MCS Gifted Academy. Since its inception in 2015, 167 teachers have graduated from the academy. The Gifted Academy, sponsored by The Jennings and Rebecca Jones Foundation, MTSU and…

Oakland High School Students

Oakland High School Students Compete in Skills Regional

Congratulations to Jordan McMahan and Will Malugin who qualified for state competition on Feb 26 at Skills Regional Automotive Technology competition. Jordan won in Maintenance and Light Repair, and Will won in Automotive Service Technology. Both of these students are enrolled in the Automotive Technology pathway under the direction of teacher, Phillip Vining at Oakland…

Central Magnet, St. Rose emerge as Regional Science Olympiad winners

Central Magnet, St. Rose emerge as Regional Science Olympiad winners

Murfreesboro’s Central Magnet School and St. Rose of Lima Catholic School captured first place in their respective high school and middle school divisions to wrap up the 25th annual Regional Science Olympiad at MTSU Saturday, Feb. 22. The tournament, held at various venues on the campus, found nearly 450 students competing in a combined 46…