One student flew from Colorado. Most of the high school students came from Tennessee. The rest came from surrounding states in the South and Midwest. With sunny, mid-70 degree weather prevailing outdoors for Presidents’ Day when most were out of school for the holiday, nearly 640 people attended the MTSU Honors College open house Monday…
The newest greenhouse in Murfreesboro City School’s grant-funded Farm to School program is now at Discovery School. The greenhouse provides students a protected and secure environment to learn about the growing process year-round. Murfreesboro City School’s Farm to School program began in 2015. MCS students have gained access to healthy, local and regionally sourced foods…
Don’t let your preschooler get the winter time blahs. Instead, come to the Wilderness Station for a wintery, wondery celebration on Saturday, February 11 at 10:30 a.m. We will read “The Mitten” by Jan Brett and play, explore, and discover the native animals that make this story fun with games and a craft. Call 615-217-3017…
Working in pairs of two, 10 Blackman High School students tackled an assignment from William McDowell, professor and chair holder of the Wright Chair of Entrepreneurship in the Jennings A. Jones College of Business at MTSU. McDowell gave the students, part of a group of nearly 70 Blackman Collegiate Academy sophomores on campus Thursday, Feb….
About 50 percent of drivers killed in Tennessee traffic fatalities failed to wear their seatbelts, the Tennessee Highway Safety Office reported. That’s why the Rutherford County Sheriff’s deputies will be urging drivers to always buckle seatbelts and place children in passenger safety seats during the annual Seatbelts Are For Everyone campaign from Feb. 1 to…
The MTSU Department of Physics and Astronomy resumes First Friday Star Parties for the spring semester this week. John Wallin kicks things off with “Darkness Fell Over the Land — Eclipses in Religion and History” at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, in Wiser-Patten Science Hall Room 102. Wallin is professor and director of the MTSU…
Today’s college library is not just literary, but also digital and kinetic, and MTSU’s latest contribution to the trend is getting positive reviews. The James E. Walker Library celebrated the success of its new “Makerspace” area with an official grand opening and dedication ceremony earlier this week in the second-floor Digital Media Studio. The area…