MTSU and first-year Rockvale High School signed a partnership agreement Thursday, March 5, that will encourage the university and Rockvale to create additional dual enrollment opportunities for high school students. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and Rockvale Principal Steve Luker, an MTSU alumnus, signed the agreement with Rockets’ students, faculty and staff and MTSU staff…
The Nashville Predators stepped forward Monday to raise money and awareness for Middle Tennessee State University student veterans in distress and whose educational benefits have either expired or have been exhausted. Predators President and CEO Sean Henry joined MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and Country Music Hall of Famer Charlie Daniels, who has financially supported…
Middle Tennessee State University undergraduate researchers Tia Shutes, Kayley Stallings and Aric Moilanen received unexpected career advice from Bryan Terry, a medical doctor from Murfreesboro and now state legislator Wednesday, Feb. 26, at the Tennessee Capitol. The MTSU students entered his office planning to share about their particular areas of study (and they did), but…
Murfreesboro’s Central Magnet School and St. Rose of Lima Catholic School captured first place in their respective high school and middle school divisions to wrap up the 25th annual Regional Science Olympiad at MTSU Saturday, Feb. 22. The tournament, held at various venues on the campus, found nearly 450 students competing in a combined 46…
With less than a few hours’ notice, the Rev. James McCarroll delivered a powerful message to several hundred people attending the 24th annual Unity Luncheon Thursday, Feb. 20, at MTSU. McCarroll’s 15-minute talk, titled “The Call to Come-Unity,” shared how the local “community” can come together in unity and harmony. “Where There is Unity, There…
The Middle Tennessee State University community showed what it really means to be “true blue,” smashing this year’s fundraising goal through the annual “True Blue Give” 72-hour donor drive. Almost 700 MTSU alumni, friends, faculty and staff and even some current students donated more than $450,000 toward scholarships, student emergency funds, academics and athletics during…
MTSU students are invited to a meet-and-greet and luncheon with the FBI from 11 to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, at the Daniels Veterans Center in Room 324 of the Keathley University Center. The lunch, which is free, will be provided by the Daniels Center. To attend, RSVP to dvmfc@mtsu.edu. Hilary Miller, veterans center director,…
In anticipation of the upcoming national election in November, MTSU will host a gathering designed to increase civic engagement. The 2020 Middle Tennessee Campus Civic Summit, the third annual statewide event of its kind in Tennessee, will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, in the Student Union Ballroom. Registration, breakfast…
Interested in biochemistry and hunting for the right college for him, Ross Sibley, his mother Pam and sister Emily flew 2,000 miles from Southern California to Nashville, Tennessee, last summer. They planned to check out schools in Nashville and Knoxville, then discovered Middle Tennessee State University. “We stopped here, in Murfreesboro, and I fell in…
