Robert and Beulah Fenbert became the first of 100 Rutherford County residents to receive the free Moderna COVID-19 vaccine administered by MTSU School of Nursing students in Cason-Kennedy Nursing Building — one of the Rutherford County Health Department’s newest sites. The Smyrna, Tennessee, seniors found themselves at the front of the line to receive the…
Beginning Thursday, Feb. 25, the MTSU School of Nursing, in partnership with the Rutherford County Health Department, will join the State Farm Operations Center as a site for eligible Rutherford County residents to receive free COVID-19 Moderna vaccines. The MTSU site will offer vaccines — by appointment only — on Thursdays and Saturdays in Cason-Kennedy…
An interdisciplinary team from Middle Tennessee State University is launching a pilot project to promote widespread faculty use of free or low-cost open digital course content that could result in significant savings for students who sometimes struggle to afford necessary textbooks. Open Educational Resources, or OER, “are materials for teaching or learning that are either…
Audrey Creel came to MTSU with an enthusiasm for digital history. Through earning one of the university’s Undergraduate Research Experience and Creative Activity, or URECA, grants, Creel turned that interest into funding for a research project she completed with help from her professor Molly Taylor-Poleskey. Administered through the Undergraduate Research Center, which is part of…
As MTSU’s Monday, Feb. 15, Transfer Promise Scholarship deadline looms, the university’s recruiting team is enjoying a successful “Discover True Blue: Transfer Scholarship” virtual tour with Tennessee’s community college students. With COVID-19 preventing in-person MTSU Promise Tour events at community colleges across the state this year, MTSU’s transfer recruiting team utilized Zoom sessions to reach…
Lobby renovation in the Keathley University Center, also known as the KUC, is essentially complete, the second renovation project this school year that the university completed in contract with food provider company Aramark. The State Building Commission approved the project last November and construction began in early December, said university spokesman Andrew Oppmann, vice president…
Middle Tennessee State University announced Thursday (Feb. 4) that it will again offer a set of three academic scholarships for qualified freshmen entering Fall 2021 who are applying to the university after the traditional Dec. 1 deadline for such awards. The three awards — the Lightning Scholarship, the Blue Raider Scholarship and the Future Alumni…
Reverting to a virtual environment may have affected the number of participants, but it did not deter the talent and creativity of the college students taking part in the sixth annual MTSU Computer Science Department’s HackMT. Jacob Cuomo and Emily Nguyen were teammates on the first-place team that created an app to help family members…
The winter 2021 edition of MTSU Magazine spotlights two highly successful university alums, each of whom represent excellence and distinction through their professional careers, loyal support and service to the broader community. Darrell Freeman, vice chair of the MTSU Board of Trustees, is a first-generation graduate and entrepreneur. Freeman’s company Zycron grew to $40 million…
When a tired bunch of college students and several dozen other participants wrapped up the fifth annual MTSU computer science HackMT with the rousing awards ceremony before heading home in January 2020, no one had any idea Year 6 would be held virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But that’s the reality of the situation…