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…
Taylor Sutton experienced a perfect day on the basketball court Wednesday, Dec. 4, for the MTSU Lady Raiders. Sutton did not miss a shot the entire game as the Lady Raiders beat visiting Lipscomb University 64-42 in the annual Education Day game that brought thousands of Murfreesboro City Schools’ students to campus. Sutton was 7-for-7…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (MTSU News) – Many Murfreesboro-area residents are a step closer to finishing their degree after attending an event organized by MTSU’s University college. On Wednesday, Oct. 23rd, a huge crowd gathered at the Rutherford Chamber of Commerce for a Finish Your Degree Q&A. The event, organized especially for working adults, is the second…
All of the usual sights and sounds of the season signal the Thanksgiving weekend. Autumn’s palette cast a warm glow across campus. As we at MTSU winded down for the holiday, students were excitedly preparing for a long weekend home, as faculty and staff discussed time-honored recipes that were going to grace the family table….