Middle Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to ask the state for an additional $20 million for its Applied Engineering building project to cover inflationary increases in construction cost. MTSU received state approval last year for a new 89,000-square-foot, $54.9 million Applied Engineering Building that will serve as the home for the Engineering…
The MTSU College of Education’s Early Childhood Education faculty and Early Learning programs invite local early childhood educators and MTSU students to register now for the Play Symposium 2022 scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 1. “The Play Symposium is a conference for early childhood educators designed to emphasize the value of play,” said Pam Ertel, associate…
More than 60 Middle Tennessee State University students and student veterans learned about job and career opportunities and inner workings of the FBI recently during a meet-and-greet session on campus with agent and recruiter Trisha Brotan. Brotan, who is with the FBI’s Memphis, Tennessee, Field Office but based in Nashville, shared information and showed videos…
Calling it a marathon that’s grown into an ultramarathon, Greg Mays shared how the United States remains in a war to defeat terrorism. Mays, director of Homeland Security at the Tennessee Department of Safety, helped Middle Tennessee State University commemorate the 21st anniversary of the four coordinated terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by the extremist…
Middle Tennessee State University has again made the U.S. News & World Report’s Top 100 national list for Top Performers in Social Mobility for its efforts to help disadvantaged students reach their educational goals. U.S. News on Monday announced its 2022-23 evaluations of 1,500 colleges and universities, ranking MTSU at No. 82 for social mobility;…
With 250-plus student organizations on the Middle Tennessee State University campus, students have the opportunity to cultivate a variety of interests and what will in many cases be lifelong friends as they navigate their academy journey. MTSU’s Center for Student Involvement and Leadership recently hosted its annual Student Organization Fair in the Student Union Ballroom…
Let’s just say MTSU’s Janet McCormick is fond of directing the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts, or “MALA,” graduate program, a flexible advanced degree that provides students greater liberty in crafting a program of study catered to their unique interests. “I love it,” McCormick said. “It’s unique because it’s an interdisciplinary program. It can…
For MTSU geosciences professor and researcher Alisa Hass and her collaborators at the Nashville, Tennessee, mayor’s office, a recent early morning research excursion was the result of months of hard work and preparation. It was finally time to collect Nashville’s heat data as part of their research for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Heat…
Typically held on the first Friday of the month during the semester, the MTSU Department of Physics and Astronomy Friday Star Parties for fall 2022 will feature four events from September until December. Lecturer Abdorreza “Abdi” SamarBakhsh launches the series, presenting the topic “The Unprecedented Accuracy of Omar Khayyam’s Jalali Calendar” starting at 6:30 p.m….
It was a night to recognize veterans, Middle Tennessee State University student veterans, MTSU’s Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center and present two inaugural awards. Nearly 250 people gathered for the fifth annual Veteran Impact Celebration Thursday, Aug. 25, in the Student Union Ballroom on campus. The event, presented by Hiller Plumbing,…