For MTSU alumnus Trey Duke, education was a calling. From his first MTSU degree in education in 2003, his recent appointment to director of Murfreesboro City Schools and on to receiving his doctorate in May from his alma mater, Duke has valued education both as a professional and as a lifelong learner. “I knew I…
A first-place finish at the 2021 YEDA Western Collegiate Celebration, hosted by the Youth Equestrian Development Association recently in Cleveland, Tennessee, completed an outstanding year for the MTSU equestrian team. The team, coached by Ariel Herrin Higgins and undefeated during the regular season, took 12 riders to the competition. Eleven earned awards. In the 16-team…
Middle Tennessee State University Aerospace Department students on Friday got a sneak peek of what’s in store for this weekend’s Great Tennessee Air Show, spending time on the tarmac with aviators and aircraft with the U.S. Navy’s EA-18G Growler Legacy Team. Friday’s preview also allowed MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee to invite area cadets with…
MTSU Police Chief Buddy Peaster did not always have a burning desire to be a law enforcement officer. His career in the field began while he was going to college for education to become a teacher and needed a job. “I put in an application to work part-time as a student at the college police…
Big Machine Music City Grand Prix on Saturday joined three other iconic Nashville institutions in support of the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center at Middle Tennessee State University. Grand Prix CEO Matt Crews, a MTSU alumnus, joined retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Huber, MTSU’s senior advisor for veterans and leadership initiatives,…
MTSU’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs has named administrators Dawn McCormack and Gregory Rushton as co-directors to lead efforts to support and promote faculty and student research across the Blue Raider campus. The ORSP oversees everything related to research and sponsored activity at the university. It spans from the numerous research opportunities available to…
Assistant public defender and MTSU alumna Kaitlin Beck calls herself a fighter and radical skeptic, who questions authority easily and naturally – and is “very proud to be in court every day, meeting new clients, confronting new injustices.” The 31-year-old Murfreesboro native is an attorney in Memphis, Tennessee, with the Shelby County Public Defender’s Office…
Three weeks ago, knowing the need for MTSU Health Services to utilize COVID-19 vaccines about the expire so they would not be wasted, university nurses Tracy Mifflin and Heather Ashby brainstormed. Ashby suggested Murfreesboro’s homeless population. Mifflin knows Scott Foster, executive director of Journey Home Inc., a Christian ministry that serves homeless people and the…
Rutherford County Schools recognized two Middle Tennessee State University alumnae with top honors to close out the latest academic year. Judy Goodwin, Barfield Elementary School principal and MTSU alumna, was named Principal of the Year for the school district — the second time she’s received this top honor. Stefanie Edgell, another College of Education alumna…
Some people choose to study internationally focused majors because they’d like to see the world. MTSU junior Svetlana Baranova of Murfreesboro chose her major — Professional Studies with a concentration in International Organizational Leadership — because she already has, and she’s loved every second of it. Baranova was born in Russia and visited Egypt, Singapore,…