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…
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…
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…
MTSU recently launched the Campus Life — mtsu.edu/campuslife — as a one-stop spot for students to learn about all that campus has to offer from events, to organizations, to dining and student services information. Surveys conducted in the fall by the Division of Student Affairs showed that students wanted to get more involved on campus…
Other than a sore right arm, Andrea Sakoff experienced no side effects from the COVID-19 Moderna vaccine she received this week in the Health, Wellness and Recreation Center on the MTSU campus. MTSU began administering the vaccine to eligible faculty, staff, students and retirees last week in the lobby of the Campus Rec Center on…
A student team of business majors at Middle Tennessee State University proved that their market analysis skills are comparable to those of Wall Street veterans with stellar results in the most recently completed TVA Investment Challenge. After starting last year with a half-million-dollar stock portfolio to manage, MTSU’s student team in the Jennings A. Jones…
An expansion of the MTSU National Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Awards involves the addition of a new Military Service honor. Nominations are now being accepted for the 2021-22 Distinguished Alumni recognitions. The deadline to submit is Friday, March 26. The awards, which will include an overall Distinguished Alumni recipient and Young Alumni Achievement honoree, recognize…
Already off the ground, the newest MTSU student organization takes flight this week with its first in-person meeting. The Tennessee Aerospace Professionals Society, which incorporated in February and already enjoying more than 30 members, gathers for the first time at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4, in Business and Aerospace Building Room S126. New members are…
An MTSU math faculty member and doctoral student are a part of a national award-winning team. Assistant professor Jennifer Lovett and graduate student Demet Yalman Ozen, both from Murfreesboro, recently earned the 2021 Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators National Technology Leadership Initiative award. The team included doctoral candidate Nina Bailey and associate professor Allison McCulloch…
A dedicated group of Middle Tennessee State University students have been named this year’s winners of Selective Insurance’s College Competition. The annual national contest allows future generations of insurance professionals to run virtual insurance agencies and experience many associated responsibilities and considerations. The MTSU team had the highest performing agency among the eight college teams…