The latest edition of MTSU magazine chronicles the October 2022 opening of a new $40.1 million School of Concrete and Construction Management Building on the east side of campus. The 54,000-square-foot facility is an integrated and experiential learning laboratory for 135 current Concrete Industry Management majors and 200 Construction Management students preparing for professional careers…
Middle Tennessee State University Computer Science and Data Science students were not only creating games and dabbling with virtual reality and artificial intelligence at this year’s HackMT event, but also networking and establishing relationships with, hopefully, potential employers. Joined by representatives from industry partners, MTSU students on 10 teams spent 36 nonstop hours creating apps…
Last fall, the combined efforts of MTSU professor Mary A. Evins and her group of student and community volunteers secured the Blue Raider campus a second win as the top four-year public university in Secretary of State Tre Hargett’s College Voter Registration Competition. Hargett visited the campus Thursday, Jan. 26, and presented the glass plaque…
Middle Tennessee State University broke ground on the Athletic Department’s new $66 million Student-Athlete Performance Center Thursday, Jan. 26, on the site of the project just outside of Johnny “Red” Floyd Stadium. The three-story, 85,500-square-foot building connected to the north end of Floyd Stadium will serve as the new home of Blue Raider Football, as…
There was this special moment Sunday night when legendary rock star Peter Frampton gazed out at the capacity crowd at his concert at Middle Tennessee State University’s Tucker Theatre and paused to let the night sink in. “Thank you for coming, and thank you for being such a great crowd,” Frampton, 72, told the audience,…
Middle Tennessee State University’s Black History Month Committee has selected the honorees for the 27th annual Unity Luncheon set for Feb. 8 on the Blue Raider campus. Coordinated through and hosted by the Office of Intercultural and Diversity Affairs, the Unity Luncheon is an MTSU tradition that has been around since 1996 where the university…
Special education teacher and College of Education alumnus Marshall Ellson did not know at first that his school administrators had nominated him for the Herzog Foundation Christian Teacher of the Year award. “Our head of school let me know,” said Ellson who works as director of academic support and K-12 analytics at Westminster Christian Academy…
After almost a decade as a high school band director, MTSU alumnus John Hazletthas not only shared his expertise with his students — he has advanced his education at MTSU to better serve them and received recognition for his efforts, most recently named a CMA Foundation Music Teacher of Excellence for the third time. “It…
Members of the MTSU campus community soon will be trained in how to notice and respond to mental health and addiction challenges commonly experienced by youth in higher education settings. Thanks to a recently secured $500,000 federal grant by the MTSU Center for Health and Human Services, students, faculty and staff will have an opportunity…
After a period of reduced interest in prospective officers joining law enforcement ranks, the MTSU Police Department has attracted and brought on nine new officers over the past year and worked hard to support them through the rigorous onboarding process. “It takes around nine months for a new hire to go from the first day…