Middle Tennessee State University announced plans Tuesday to rebrand its educational resource cable TV channel to “True Blue TV” and add more campus events to its programming schedule. The channel, which airs on Comcast Xfinity channels 9 and 1096 in Murfreesboro, was launched in 1999 as a television lesson delivery system for primary and secondary…
Registration is underway for the 24th annual Expanding Your Horizons in Math and Science Conference at MTSU, which will be held virtually from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3. This will be the first virtual conference, which like many such events has been moved to an online environment as a safety precaution to…
For the second consecutive year, Middle Tennessee State University’s Saeed Foroudastan has received the CARE Award from the June Anderson Center for Women and Nontraditional Students. Foroudastan, who was excited to learn he received the award again, is associate dean in the College of Basic and Applied Sciences and director of the award-winning Experimental Vehicles…
National leadership honor society Omicron Delta Kappa recently recognized MTSU’s Susan Lyons with the Robert L. Morlan-Robert Bishop Outstanding Circle Officer Award. The award celebrates Lyons’ service as an Omicron Delta Kappa, or ODK, Circle Assistant and now Circle Coordinator at MTSU. It also recognizes her contributions as a member of the 2018 Biennial National…
Citing public health concerns, organizers have canceled the inaugural Songs for Service, a tribute scheduled for Sept. 11 in Middle Tennessee State University’s historic Murphy Center and hosted by singer-songwriter Rodney Atkins to honor troops, veterans and first responders. University officials, led by retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Keith M. Huber, MTSU’s senior adviser for…
The Casualty Actuarial Society recently announced Middle Tennessee State University’s actuarial science program as one of the recipients of its international 2020 CAS University Award Program. All four recipients were selected by a panel of judges from among a competitive field of applicants for the innovative and exemplary ways they are preparing students for a…
Middle Tennessee State University’s Department of Aerospace recently received delivery of six new Diamond Aircraft 2020 DA 40 XLT airplanes to its student training fleet and the Austria-based manufacturer also refurbished 13 aircraft in the university’s existing fleet. The final two new planes arrived Friday, June 19. Diamond imported them to the U.S./Canadian border and…
MTSU Phillips Bookstore, now operated by Barnes & Noble College, reopened for business Tuesday, June 16, as the rest of the university began a Phase I resumption of more on-campus activity since moving to remote courses and work in March because of the coronavirus pandemic. MTSU alumnus and new bookstore manager Natalie Karousatos said store…
Middle Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees made it official Tuesday: No increase in tuition or fees for the 2020-21 academic year. Trustee Joey Jacobs, chair of the board’s Finance and Personnel Committee, put forward the recommendation by President Sidney A. McPhee to hold flat tuition and fees for undergraduate and graduate students. The board…
The Tennessee Consumer Outlook Index has plummeted to an all-time low as the effects of the coronavirus pandemic ripple throughout the state’s economy, according to a survey by Middle Tennessee State University. The Overall Outlook Index is now in the negative range, declining all the way to -13 from 212 in March, reports the Office…