Middle Tennessee State University’s Department of Criminal Justice Administration partnered with Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Murfreesboro Police Department and noted MTSU forensic science instructors for the inaugural Criminal Justice High School Educators Professional Development Workshop. The two-day workshop in early July provided hands-on training with criminal justice and forensic science professionals for 31 educators representing…

Middle Tennessee State University’s Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition will host two six-week online American Sign Language courses open to the public this fall. The courses are being taught by longtime instructor Haley Jensen through CALA, the language training partner of the University Honors College. Jensen leads the classes using games and other hands-on activities…

Eight MTSU undergraduates took their research projects across the pond to the annual World Congress on Undergraduate Research, also known as WorldCUR, at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, earlier this spring. Students Janna Abou-Rahma, Marzea Akter, Hunter Brady, Brooke Busbee, Leslie Gonzalez, Yaseen Ginnab, Jesse Scobee and Ross Sibley traveled with Jamie Burriss,…

After a few years’ hiatus, Tom Black, associate professor of special education, brought back the College of Education’s Inclusive College Experience camp this summer to give special needs campers a week to experience life as a Blue Raider. “We offer this camp because campers are the age the typical high school students would be when…

Amanda Albakry enjoys science-related things “so you can learn how to help people,” and she plans to become a pediatrician. As fellow teenager Shyann Lyons gets older, she intends to pursue biology and “wants to inspire people” through poetry and other ways. They were two of nearly 75 high school students attending this summer’s MTSU…

Laura Clark, director of MTSU’s Center for Educational Media, was featured on this month’s “Out of the Blue” episode to discuss how the center supports educators in the university’s College of Education, across campus and in the larger pre-K-12 community across the state. The mission of MTSU’s College of Education, which houses the center, is…

MTSU’s Campus Recreation Center admitted fitness and sport enthusiasts of a furrier, four-legged variety to campus earlier this month when the university hosted the National Narcotic Detector Dog Association National Conference. “When we learned it was Murfreesboro’s turn to host, we wanted MTSU to be a big part of that,” said MTSU Police Capt. Jeff…

Middle Tennessee State University students and faculty were hard at work in the final hours before Thursday’s opening of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, preparing to handle live television production duties for 25 performances that will be featured on the popular streaming service Hulu. The assignment, the centerpiece of MTSU’s long-time partnership with the…

Sixteen Midstate teenagers learned about drones, data science and how it relates to solving real-world problems with precision agriculture during the second Middle Tennessee State University Digital Agriculture Camp. High school students like Miracle Brown of Lebanon, Tennessee, and Wilson Israel of Brentwood, Tennessee, who are already involved with agriculture-related programs, pondering ag careers and…