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…
For special education teachers, the impacts of COVID on special education services extend beyond the challenges faced in the everyday classroom. The changes have been vast and unique for both teachers and students, explained Tom Black, associate professor of special education in MTSU’s College of Education. “Many students with disabilities, especially more severe disabilities, need…
Shelby West is an MTSU transfer student from West Tennessee. She made a major decision after the fall semester to switch majors, from science to agriculture, and works in retail. To help ease her spring academic load, she took a Winter Session course. Madison Berry plans to graduate in December. She wants to take fewer…
Middle Tennessee State University turned to a Nashville distillery on Friday to provide personal-sized bottles of hand sanitizer for students returning to its on-campus residence halls when classes resume in late January. Big Machine Distillery, with locations in Nashville and Lynnville, Tennessee, produces premium, handcrafted spirits led by a signature vodka and also produces hand…
Middle Tennessee State University will again honor slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in observance of the national holiday, though this year’s event has been moved to a virtual format due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The annual MLK Celebration and Candlelight Vigil will air at 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18, featuring…