When Chris Brennan started at Middle Tennessee State University in 1992, he wasn’t sure where life would take him next. Now, a 29-year veteran of the Metro Nashville Police Department, he is finally finishing what he started and graduating with his bachelor’s degree in integrated studies this August. During his first stint at MTSU, Brennan…
In an effort to help veterans maximize their health care benefits, VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System and the Middle Tennessee State University Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center will host the Murfreesboro PACT Act Summer VetFest from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 7, at the Andrew Woodfin Miller Sr. Education Center,…
The Tennessee Department of Education recently brought on Tiffany Wilson, professional school counseling coordinator for MTSU’s College of Education, as the school counseling consultant for its just under $14 million grant project to retain and recruit mental health professionals into high-needs, rural school districts across the state. “I felt excited,” Wilson said about being asked…
Middle Tennessee State University followed up a record year of fundraising a year ago with growing donor support, securing a new record of just over $18.2 million in private donations to support the university’s educational mission. Joe Bales, vice president for university advancement, said the total to close out the fiscal year June 30 was…
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…
Three female flying aces representing Middle Tennessee State University’s Aerospace Department just returned from a successful 2,400-mile cross-country trip that pilot Farilyn Hurt described as “empowering, exciting, moving and stressful.” “By the end, I felt I could literally do anything,” Hurt, 23, of Milledgeville, Georgia, and a May MTSU graduate, said of the all-women Air…
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…