True Blue Tour launches Aug. 17 at MTSU

True Blue Tour launches Aug. 17 at MTSU

Middle Tennessee State University’s admissions team, top administrators and campus partners are preparing for another True Blue Tour, crisscrossing Tennessee and bordering states Alabama, Kentucky and Georgia to recruit prospective students. Kicking off at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with the Rutherford County student reception on campus in the Student Union Ballroom,…

MTSU Faculty, Students Publish Innovative Science Communication Research

MTSU Faculty, Students Publish Innovative Science Communication Research

Biology professor Liz Barnes and her team of student and faculty biology education researchers at MTSU’s Social Perceptions of Science Lab recently published a novel study about undergraduate biology students’ ability to communicate effectively to their community about COVID-19. “To start, we reviewed the literature about undergraduate biology students serving as science communicators about COVID,”…

Inaugural ‘Free Cycle’ Helps Meet MTSU Students’ Living, School Needs

Inaugural ‘Free Cycle’ Helps Meet MTSU Students’ Living, School Needs

MTSU student Zofia Zagalsky had an eye on one specific item: “I really was wanting the lamp I got to help mitigate some of my electric power usage,” she said following the first-ever Free Cycle event recently on campus. And, she added, “school supplies like notebooks, organizers and a calculator clipboard are just great things…

MTSU Helps Big Machine Music City Grand Prix Honor Troops, Veterans

MTSU Helps Big Machine Music City Grand Prix Honor Troops, Veterans

For one shining moment, in the middle of the biggest Indy Car race in Tennessee, a future Army Reserve officer and incoming Middle Tennessee State University freshman from Watertown was the star of the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix biggest stage Friday. Lancy Fripp, who graduated in May from Watertown High School and will…

MTSU Grad Students, Alumna Land Fulbright Awards With Support From Honors College

MTSU Grad Students, Alumna Land Fulbright Awards With Support From Honors College

MTSU faculty and staff work hard to ensure students and alumni are exposed to multiple scholarship and grant opportunities, the latest being two MTSU graduate students and one alumna who have landed spots in the prestigious U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program this fall. “We at the Honors College individualize our support to help assist MTSU students…

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MTSU Brings in $17.2M-Plus in Donations During Record Fundraising Year

Middle Tennessee State University boasted a record fundraising year for 2021-22, bringing in more than $17.2 million in private donations to support the university’s educational mission. “That’s easily the biggest fundraising year we’ve ever had,” said Joe Bales, vice president for university advancement. “It’s more than $3 million above our previous record year.” The university…

MTSU Music City Grand Prix

Music City Grand Prix Expands MTSU Twins’ Concrete Resume

Middle Tennessee State University’s School of Concrete and Construction Management reconnected this week with the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix for the second year of their continuing partnership. MTSU worked with the Grand Prix last year to develop a special lighter weight and more durable mix for the concrete barriers around the track, as…

MTSU Faculty Mentor Undergrads Through Research Experiences

MTSU Faculty Mentor Undergrads Through Research Experiences

MTSU science faculty just completed another year of grant-funded National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates, or NSF REU, with final-day poster presentations by the undergrads in the Science Building. The university’s science departments — chemistry and engineering technology with one group and mathematics, computer science and physics with a second — hosted students from…

MTSU Summer Stole Ceremony Honors Graduating Student Veterans

MTSU Summer Stole Ceremony Honors Graduating Student Veterans

MTSU seniors and Murfreesboro, Tennessee, residents Dallas Glover and Jonas Farmer received the Journey and Leadership awards, respectively, during the summer 2022 Graduating Veterans Stole Ceremony, held Wednesday, July 27, in the Miller Education Center second-floor atrium. They were among 20 student veterans recognized and presented red stoles at their upcoming graduation at 9 a.m….