NFL player Brandon Copeland will bring his passion for and wisdom about financial literacy to Middle Tennessee State University students this spring, including a special opportunity for one lucky student to land a “workout session” with the New York Jets linebacker. Copeland’s presentation on “How to Catch Your Dream” will be held from 4:30 to…
The City of Murfreesboro Municipal Airport has been awarded a 2020 Aeronautics Economic Development Fund grant of $1 million, the maximum grant approved from the Aeronautics Division of the Tennessee Department of Transportation. The announcement came in a Jan. 10, letter from Michelle Frazier, director of Aeronautics. “The development strategy for this fund is to…
Carlos Rivero-Odermatt and Rafela Aldas always dreamed of being homeowners.The Ecuador natives, married for 43 years, had a goal of creating a better living situation for their family and knew homeownership would help achieve that goal. When MTSU’s Jackie Victory handed the Murfreesboro couple a set of keys to a home on East Castle Street…
MTSU’s Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition (CALA) again invites the public to register now for an upcoming introductory course to American Sign Language. CALA, the language training partner of the University Honors College, will help ASL course participants learn sign language “naturally through games and other fun hands-on activities dealing with greetings, numbers, colors, body…
MTSU’s ROTC program’s newly commissioned second lieutenants “have a lot of potential to do really great things,” said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Carrick McCarthy. McCarthy, the chair of the university’s military science program, spoke about the trio who were recently commissioned in the Hazlewood Dining Room in the James Union Building and graduated Dec. 14 in Murphy Center. The commissioning ceremony is…
Middle Tennessee State University is represented among the finalists in three categories for the 11th annual Nashville Technology Council Awards. Luis Lange, an Information Systems and Analytics graduate student, is up for Student of the Year; Charlie Apigian, co-director of MTSU’s Data Science Institute, is a finalist for Data Scientist of the Year; and the…
More than 200 children and nearly 500 people attended the annual MTSU Agritourism Winter Village recently in the Tennessee Livestock Center on Greenland Drive. The youngsters enjoyed crafts, seeing animals (cows, pigs, a pony and more) and learning where their food that they eat comes from — plus visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus that…
MTSU will be closed from Tuesday, Dec. 24, through Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020, for the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, university officials announced. The university will reopen at 8 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 2, and resume normal business hours (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.). Students and faculty will remain on winter break. Spring semester classes will…
More than two dozen outstanding high school chemistry students from across the region participated in the recent MTSU Department of Chemistry Scholarship Tournament. Held in the Science Building, the competition recognized nearly 30 outstanding chemistry students from Rutherford and surrounding counties while giving them an up-close look to consider MTSU as their college choice. Participants…