MTSU Alumni Spring Showcase 2021

Reconnect with MTSU through Alumni Spring Showcase

MTSU’s Alumni Spring Showcase returns soon, with an exciting mix of in-person and virtual activities. Working in collaboration with many campus departments and programs, the Office of Alumni Relations and the MTSU Alumni Association will offer the spring showcase April 9-17, allowing university alumni and friends to sample what’s taking place. To learn more about…

Attorneys provide free legal clinic via Zoom for MTSU student veterans

Attorneys provide free legal clinic via Zoom for MTSU student veterans

The Rutherford and Cannon County Bar Association will be offering free consultation for MTSU student veterans April 12-16. Because of ongoing COVID-19 safety protocols, all appointments will take place via Zoom. To schedule an appointment with a licensed attorney, email Elizabeth Wilburn ([email protected]) in the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center by…

MTSU undergrads research food safety with real-world lab work

MTSU undergrads research food safety with real-world lab work

MTSU senior biology major Kwinci Britt conducts real-world lab research through the university’s Undergraduate Research Experience and Creative Activity, or URECA, a grant program that can give undergrads an early entry into the research arena and perhaps lay the groundwork for future academic or career endeavors. And working with a mentor like biology professor Mary…

MTSU president meets the Alnassar triplets

Teen prodigies pursue pre-med pathway as thriving MTSU freshmen

At age 14, the amazing Alnassari triplets may be too young to drive, but the Nashville, Tennessee, high school students are steering their own success stories in dual enrollment academic pursuits at Middle Tennessee State University that may lead to medical careers. Since August 2020, in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic, Fatimah, Zaynab and Ahmed…

MTSU Finish Your Degree

Registration open for MTSU’s ‘Finish Now’ degree Q&A event at chamber

Adults looking to return to college to finish their degree or considering attending college for the first time will have the opportunity to have their questions answered by MTSU representatives next month at the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce in Murfreesboro. As a part of the university’s Finish Now event series, representatives from MTSU’s University…

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‘MTSU On the Record’ examines library science master’s degree process

The meticulous planning and hard work that goes into achieving accreditation for a master’s degree in library science will be the topic of the next “MTSU On the Record” radio program. Host Gina Logue’s interview with Frank Lambert, an assistant professor of educational leadership and director of the program, will air from 9:30 to 10…

MTSU campus tours Peck Hall

Prospective students taking a look at MTSU through daily campus tours

Spring, with warmer weather, is a great time for prospective students and parents who want a more intimate look at the Blue Raider campus to visit Middle Tennessee State University in person. Erika Sanders and her mother, Karen, discovered that recently, when they came Murfreesboro from Hendersonville, Tennessee, to check out the university on one…

MTSU tutor Alexia Grogan

MTSU students gravitate to tutoring in record numbers

It may take an extraordinary effort this semester for MTSU students to top last fall’s record tutoring usage, but this vital academic support to students remains a popular service. The Office of Student Success offers free tutoring — all virtually because of COVID-19 during the past three semesters — in more than 200 courses, helping…

Ed Stegall

Online flexibility puts former MTSU sprinter on track for degree after decades away from classroom

After four decades, a two-time Ohio Valley Conference track champion is set to finish the biggest race of his life at Middle Tennessee State University this summer. Now 63 and living in Fayetteville, Georgia, Ed Stegall says he had always wanted to finish after leaving MTSU in the late 70s, but like many others he…