Extremely popular MTSU Creamery milk will return to the trendy Main Street Saturday Market for the second year, making everyone — especially the buying public — very happy. The Main Street Saturday Market resumes its annual summer and fall season from 8 a.m. to noon starting May 22 and continuing through Oct. 30, said Linda…
The MTSU Board of Trustees will consider a proposal to increase undergraduate in-state tuition and mandatory fees at its June 8 meeting. The Tuition Transparency and Accountability Act (T.C.A. §§ 49-7-1601, et. seq.) requires boards of public universities to give public notice of proposed increases to tuition and mandatory fees charged to in-state undergraduate students…
Two recent MTSU graduates were among four commissioned as U.S. Air Force second lieutenants during the recent spring 2021 ceremony for Air Force ROTC Detachment 790 held at Middle Tennessee State University. The outdoor, in-person event sponsored by MTSU’s Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center took place Saturday, May 15, at the…
Middle Tennessee State University has released its “True Blue 100” honorees and nearly a fourth of those honored attend a Rutherford County high school. For 2021, 24 RCS freshmen have been selected for the honor. True Blue 100 is one hundred outstanding high school freshman who share the university’s core values and commitments and live…
The sounds – recent MTSU graduate Megan Johnson singing pop tunes, the nearby Honors College bell tower chiming on the hour and people’s voices – were refreshing and needed. Nearly 150 high school seniors planning to start college in late August at MTSU and more than 100 guests with them made their way to the…
Middle Tennessee State University rising junior fermentation science major Calvin Hood of Greeneville, Tennessee, is the inaugural recipient of the Tenth and Blake Brewing Education Scholarship, awarded by Athens, Georgia-based Terrapin Beer Co. The announcement was made Wednesday, May 12, by Terrapin President Dustin Watts; Paul Verdu, vice president and head of Tenth & Blake,…
Murfreesboro Aviation is a unique enterprise and is surrounded by unique stories. One of those stories is of a 16-year-old Blackman High School student who has always been fascinated by airplanes and aviation in general. Ever since his first Discovery Flight three years ago with Murfreesboro Aviation’s owner, Jim Gardner, he’s been “all in”! Patrick’s…
For Lauren Hunsicker, a psychology major at Middle Tennessee State University, presenting her research to a live audience at the annual Scholars Week Exposition was extremely meaningful. “College is supposed to be a time where you meet different people and engage in new experiences, and we’ve all missed out on that aspect for the past…
MTSU student Denise Ortega likes snakes. Actually, she loves snakes and lizards, contrary to most people having at least some degree of fear of them. As a young scientist, she appreciates and studies their existence. An organismal biology and ecology major, Ortega has earned the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. The 22-year-old senior from Madison,…
MTSU Aerospace Department maintenance management program coordinator and professor Joe Hawkins and other faculty have mentored another outstanding group of students who will likely land excellent jobs in the industry. In a year when the COVID-19 pandemic closed doors of opportunity for many, five of Hawkins’ students proved their resolve by earning coveted National Business…