Six Middle Tennessee State University Concrete Industry Management students will be hoping to “strike” it big this weekend when they compete in an international bowling ball competition in San Francisco, California. Representing a dozen students in their upper division “Special Problems in the Concrete Industry” class, the students will be entering the American Concrete Institute’s…
As a research assistant professor in MTSU’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tiffany Saul serves students in a multifaceted role, working as an instructor, a researcher and a mentor. “I was a first-generation college student, which shaped my undergraduate experience here at MTSU,” said Saul, who earned her degree in anthropology in 2010. “I know…
With a very personal reason for volunteering along with dozens of others, Lily Bradney kept making bike-powered smoothies for people participating in the annual Middle Tennessee State University Relay for Life. Bradney, 19, a junior public health major from Cleveland, Tennessee, and fellow students prepared the smoothies Friday, March 24, on the basketball courts in…
Having attended previous career fairs, graduating MTSU management major Kacey Day of Tullahoma, Tennessee, brought a higher sense of urgency than many of the Jennings A. Jones College of Business underclassmen seeking internships or entry-level jobs at the recent career fair inside the Student Union Ballroom. Almost 60 employers ranging from logistics to retail giants…
With about 80 Blackman High School students flanking them, MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, Blackman Principal Justin Smith and Rutherford County Schools’ Director Jimmy Sullivan signed a renewal of the memorandum of understanding between the university and local high school. The signing occurred Friday, March 24, in the MTSU Student Union Ballroom, as a university…
MTSU’s Jennings and Rebecca Jones Chair of Excellence in Urban and Regional Planning Advisory Committee is launching a new Scholars Program to assist students in their academic and professional development. The COE-URP Scholars Program is a nine-month research and engagement program for undergraduate students at Middle Tennessee State University designed to bring students, professors, and…
As an MTSU professor in the School of Nursing with over four decades of experience in the field, Shelley Moore is always looking to expand hands-on learning opportunities for her students. “Participating in hands-on activities is a hallmark characteristic of our nursing program, but most of the community agency experiences are more ‘clinical’ in nature,…
Middle Tennessee State University has named Joyce Heames as new dean of the Jennings A. Jones College of Business following a national search for the next leader of the award-winning college. Currently dean of the Campbell School of Business at Berry College, a small private liberal arts institution near Rome, Georgia, Heames views the Jones…
Middle Tennessee State University students are getting a financial boost thanks to a thriving partnership between the university and Chick-fil-A restaurants in Murfreesboro owned by the Noblitt family. Kaylin Garton started working at the Old Fort Parkway Chick-fil-A four years ago when she was attending Siegel High School in Murfreesboro. She says the job has…
Registration for the second Middle Tennessee State University College of Basic and Applied Sciences summer STEM camp will begin Wednesday, March 15. This summer, from June 19-23, the college will triple the number of participants and increase the number of faculty and departments involved with the camp highlighting science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Students entering…