MTSU Bridging the Gap

MTSU launches ‘Bridging the Gap’ campaign to honor untapped scholarships for eligible students

Middle Tennessee State University announced Thursday, Oct. 1, it will reinstate untapped academic scholarships awarded to new freshmen and transfer students for Fall 2020 who paused their educations because of the pandemic or chose another college or university and are reconsidering their choice. “We believed in you and wanted to recognize your academic record as…

Taylor Timmons - ACR Scholarship

Rambo Scholarship recipient already at work on her MBA at MTSU

Middle Tennessee State University recently awarded the FCM Cares’ annual Andrew C. Rambo Memorial Scholarship to Murfreesboro native Taylor Timmons. Timmons started her Master of Business Administration last month at the Jones College of Business after completing her BBA in Management at MTSU in May 2020. “Receiving this scholarship means the world to me,” Timmons…

Economic Education Center Beekhuis Award

MTSU Center for Economic Education to receive 2019-20 Albert Beekhuis Award

The MTSU Center for Economic Education, housed in the Jones College of Business, has been selected to receive the 2019-20 Albert Beekhuis Award from the New York-based Council for Economic Education. The award, which carries a $1,000 honorarium, is named after Dr. Albert Beekhuis, a lifelong proponent of economic literacy. “This award is a tremendous…

Even remotely, Blackman scholars ‘taste’ MTSU’s variety on BCA Day

Even remotely, Blackman scholars ‘taste’ MTSU’s variety on BCA Day

While they physically weren’t able to be on campus for BCA Day at MTSU this week because of COVID-19, Blackman Collegiate Academy scholars still received a “taste” of the university in more ways than one. The Blackman High School students heard presentations from Middle Tennessee State University chairs and faculty members, but the best (MTSU…

MTSU Military Graduate

MTSU’s ROTC offers funding opportunities for prospective graduate students

Enrollment at MTSU’s College of Graduate Studies grew almost 28% this fall, and there are more funding opportunities for prospective grad students outside of student loans and graduate assistant positions. Prospective graduate students can also contract as an ROTC cadet to receive funding that extends beyond tuition. “Some of my best students have been graduate…

Masked Lightning

Masked Lightning to be grand marshal for virtual MTSU Homecoming Parade

Masked Lightning, a symbol of MTSU’s pandemic precautions on campus, will be grand marshal of the 2020 virtual Homecoming Parade, which will be broadcast live Saturday. The traditional parade format, which was set aside due to COVID-19 concerns, will instead be a “MTShUbox” parade, featuring more than 50 shoebox floats created and decorated by students,…

MTSU’s Police Department takes medical training course

MTSU’s Police Department takes medical training course

MTSU police officers recently received advanced medical training on campus as part of the department’s ongoing efforts to be better prepared for emergency response. Administered by the training company Defend Systems and offered through the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, the course was broken down into two separate two-day classes to allow for adherence to COVID-19…

MTSU, Blackman High leaders celebrate collegiate academy students’ accomplishments

MTSU, Blackman High leaders celebrate collegiate academy students’ accomplishments

Top administrators from MTSU and Blackman High School celebrated the academic success and research pursuits of nearly 100 Blackman Collegiate Academy students during a virtual pinning ceremony Thursday, Sept. 24. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, Blackman Principal Leisa Justus and Assistant Principal Justin Smith gave livestreamed remarks from the McWherter Learning Resources Center Studio A…

Hanna Terletska

MTSU’s Terletska shares NSF-funded research at prestigious international conference

Middle Tennessee State University’s Hanna Terletska experienced a special opportunity to share her research experiences along with nearly 60 of the world’s leading physics scholars. The group gathered, albeit virtually because of COVID-19, for the late summer international conference Localisation 2020 in honor of Philip W. “Phil” Anderson, a Nobel Prize in physics recipient in…