MTSU journalism alumna Tosheena Robinson-Blair is earning notice within the media and communications industries in her native Bahamas with a number of awards over the past year. A journalist with Etienne Dupuch Jr. Publications Ltd. in the Bahamas, Robinson-Blair received the Women of Distinction 2017 Global Leadership Award in Journalism and Broadcasting in December from Celebrating Women International, a…
MTSU graduate student Richard Boland of Murfreesboro just completed an internship with the Rutherford County geographic information systems office. He will graduate from MTSU Saturday, Dec. 16. Two days later, the 31-year-old will be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Nontraditional student Joel Clements, 64, of Murfreesboro, spent two years as the graduate teaching assistant with the MTSU Engineering…
Reaffirming a partnership established in 2012, the presidents of Middle Tennessee State University and Jackson State Community College signed agreements Wednesday (Oct. 18) creating a smoother transition for students wanting to transfer from the West Tennessee college to the Murfreesboro university. The signing occurred at the Jackson Country Club, where MTSU hosted its annual True Blue Tour luncheon for high school counselors…
The Bounce Back Golf Scramble benefitting Homes for Our Troops will be held on Veteran’s Day, November 11, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. at Champion’s Run Golf Course in Rockvale, TN, 14262 Mt Pleasant Rd, Rockvale, TN 37153. To register for the scramble, please visit www.active.com and the costs of the scramble will be $100 dollars…
More than 50 Midstate high school counselors and community college staff attended an MTSU admissions-hosted luncheon as the university courts them in an effort to recruit students for 2018 and beyond. The 52 counselors from Rutherford and surrounding counties and directors and staff from Motlow College’s Smyrna campus learned about MTSU’s 240 combined undergraduate (140)…
Middle Tennessee State University again enlisted a diverse cast of students, faculty, staff and alumni to recite the latest video expression of what is becoming a cherished Blue Raider tradition. The True Blue Pledge is recited each fall at MTSU’s annual University Convocation ceremony during which university President Sidney A. McPhee, top executives and…
MTSU will be closed Monday, Sept. 4, in observance of Labor Day. All business offices will be closed and no classes will be held. Offices will reopen at 8 a.m. and all fall semester classes will resume Tuesday, Sept. 5. Classes will be held Sept. 2 for students taking Saturday classes. Some venues will have operating hours during the holiday weekend….
College football fever returns to the MTSU campus Saturday, Sept. 2, as the Blue Raiders entertain Vanderbilt in a nonconference game at 7 p.m. in Floyd Stadium. At 2:30 p.m., 4.5 hours before kickoff, the inaugural “Minds of Middle: The Deans’ Tailgate” begins in Walnut Grove between Peck Hall and Cope Administration Building. In what may become one of the top…
Maybe it was the free slices of pizza or hot dogs and chips. Possibly it was the $5 T-shirts, Smoothie King samples, opportunities to join off-campus student ministries or other goodies. With bright and warm sunshine as a backdrop, Middle Tennessee State University’s two-day “Meet Murfreesboro” Connection Point event drew a crowd in the Student Union Commons. The…
he Great Tennessee Eclipse at Middle Tennessee State University Aug. 21 will bring thousands of schoolchildren and other visitors to campus for the highly anticipated midday to early afternoon natural phenomenon. MTSU, the College of Basic and Applied Sciences and its Department of Physics and Astronomy will host a four-hour solar eclipse observing party. Thousands of Rutherford County Schools and Murfreesboro City Schools students have…