Thirty-plus budding scientists caught darters in area streams, made solar panels using circuit boards, performed chemistry-related food activities and more, while attending the inaugural MTSU College of Basic and Applied Sciences Summer STEM Camp. Four of their five-days on campus wrapped up with team building and other fun things at the Campus Recreation Center. With…

The rising costs of textbooks have been a topic of conversation for years, but a group of MTSU faculty and staff is making it their mission to make course materials more affordable — and in turn keep students on track to earn their degrees. For the last two and a half years, a group of…

Roommates and MTSU football teammates Wilson Kelly and Seth Falley have agricultural backgrounds. Falley spent most of his life around horses and farming in his native Kansas. From rural Kentucky, Wilson grew up around animals and equipment. When Falley and later Kelly inquired about bringing their size, strength and experience to assist at the MTSU…

Middle Tennessee State University alumnus Ronald Roberts was recently elected as new president of the MTSU Foundation while four other alumni were appointed as new members of the MTSU Foundation Board of Trustees. Roberts, a managing partner of DVL Seigenthaler public relations, will serve a two-year term as president that ends in June 2024. Newly…

For recent Middle Tennessee State University graduates Zaheerah Smith-Cooper and her daughter Aminah Smith, sharing interests and passions extended beyond the home to the classroom. The mother-daughter duo not only graduated together from MTSU’s College of Education this spring but did so with top marks — a 4.0 GPA for Zaheerah and 3.9 GPA for…

Though most Americans are not afraid of a little heat, few know that there are more heat-related deaths in the United States than from tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, floods and lightning combined. High temperatures are even further exacerbated by the Urban Heat Island, or UHI, effect, the phenomenon of city environments with more concrete, more machines…

Alumni Summer College recently returned to MTSU in-person for the first time since 2019 after Covid forced the cancelation of the popular event the past two years. Nearly 70 participants came from across the region, state and Southeast, to learn what’s happening on the Middle Tennessee State University campus, renew and make new friendships and…

Qiang Wu, director of MTSU’s new Data Science master’s program and professor, knows from his 10-plus years of teaching and research that data science solves real-world problems. “I believe data science and artificial intelligence will be key powers to develop technology and change the world,” Wu said. Having just graduated its first cohort of undergraduate…