High school freshmen Wyatt Petelle and Hunter Higgs from Central Magnet School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, eagerly jumped onto their laptop inside MTSU’s Student Union Ballroom recently to explain the concept behind their online engineering services business called EngiTex. “We are an online engineering company that specializes in producing engineering designs for independent engineers,” Petelle said….
Alicia Abney, MTSU College of Education advising manager and adjunct instructor, is a 2022 NACADA Scholarship recipient from NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising as part of the 2022 Global Awards Program for Academic Advising. Abney, who came to MTSU in 2015 as an advisor and has a doctorate in education, was honored and…
Marie Patterson, the director of MTSU’s Physician Assistant Studies program, has been named the Physician Assistant of the Year by the Tennessee Academy of Physician Assistants. Patterson has worked as both a clinician and an educator, and for many years staffed the student health center at MTSU, according to a TAPA announcement. She moved into…
With a theme this year of “Make a Difference,” Middle Tennessee State University’s 2022-23 Employee Charitable Giving Campaign will do just that, with a record-setting amount of almost $145,000 pledged, beating the $142,500 campaign goal. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee lauded the university’s 830 faculty and staff participants for again rising to the occasion and…
For MTSU English and education student and mother, Aiko Baker, balancing her studies, part-time job and parenting her 2-year-old son has been tough, but she knows it is well worth it. “I’m doing it for him,” Baker said. To help lower income, parenting students like Baker manage the financial burden of child care while pursuing…
As a Dec. 1 application deadline looms for the next group of budding medical school students, the first four Middle Tennessee State University undergraduates have successfully advanced in the special partnership with Meharry Medical College School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. “We have made it to medical school,” an exuberant Maria Hite of La Vergne,…
It was an intimate but touching setting inside the Miller Education Center’s second floor atrium as the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center again recognized military veterans and active-duty employees working on campus with the MTSU Faculty/Staff Veterans Stole Ceremony. Faculty members Lt. Col. Arlin Wilsher, professor in the Department of Military…
Middle Tennessee State University is tapping the expertise and insights of 10 business leaders in the region who have been named to the Advisory Committee for the Jennings and Rebecca Jones Chair of Excellence in Urban and Regional Planning. “The advisory committee members include community stakeholders who invest their time and resources to make Middle…
For area MTSU alumni business leaders were recognized recently with special awards from the Jennings A. Jones College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University. The awards were presented at a special reception in advance of the 2022 Leadership Summit: Innovative Leadership at Embassy Suites in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The Young Professional of the Year Award…
Middle Tennessee State University’s True Blue Tour 2022 is nearing the end of its recruitment effort that visits 14 cities in four states to connect prospective students, their families and local school counselors and community college staff with leadership of MTSU’s 300-plus programs and offerings. University President Sidney A. McPhee and other administrators and staff…