The Black History Month Committee at Middle Tennessee State University is accepting nominations of community members to be honored at the 27th annual Unity Luncheon celebration in February 2023. 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…
In less than a month, Michelle Zeigler of Antioch, Tennessee, will walk across the stage in Murphy Center and accept her diploma from Middle Tennessee State University. That’s four days before her daughter, McKensey, will walk across a similar stage in Memphis to accept hers. It’s a goal that Michelle set for herself when she…
Not that they need it, but the Middle Tennessee Lady Raiders have a good-luck charm in the form of Murfreesboro City Schools’ youngsters. When the school kids show up — and some 3,500 did Thursday, Dec. 1, for the annual Education Day game — coach Rick Insell’s Lady Raiders usually win. Visiting Tennessee Tech found…
Middle Tennessee State University seniors Dennisse Osorio-Sanchez and Jordan Kinsey have served their country through different branches of the military. Kinsey chose the U.S. Navy, with interest in a medical area. With social work aspirations in mind, Osorio-Sanchez, an Alabama native who had begun college but dropped out, signed with the U.S. Air Force and…
Sonya Sanderson, chair of MTSU’s department of Health and Human Performance, has always loved to decorate her office door for the holidays. “This year, my Halloween decorations must have really impressed because several people asked, ‘What are you going to do for Christmas?’” Sanderson thought it would be fun for others would join in, and…
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…