U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn visited Middle Tennessee State university’s Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center for the first time Friday, June 21, gaining a better understanding of how veterans can transition to becoming successful students, eventually graduate and become productive citizens in the workforce. Blackburn was led on the tour by Keith…
Middle Tennessee State University’s “We Are Music” marketing campaign, which highlighted the music industry work of current students and alumni in three colleges, was awarded Best of Show honors recently by the Tennessee College Public Relations Association. The Best of Show honor, issued at the TCPRA annual conference in Maryville, was one of 17 awards…
Middle Tennessee State University is the No. 1 choice of Tennessee Promise students who have transferred from one of the state’s community colleges to a four-year institution. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee made the announcement at Tuesday’s Board of Trustees meeting held inside the Miller Education Center on Bell Street. McPhee shared with trustees recent…
MTSU’s Jennings A. Jones College of Business has tapped the expertise of a longtime Midstate financial services executive and alumnus to fill its new accounting chairholder of excellence position. Tom Walker (Class of ’78), former managing partner of Deloitte’s Nashville office, is the inaugural holder of the Joey Jacobs Chair of Excellence in Accounting, which…
Lia Ritchie came all the way from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Others attending the annual MTSU Department of Aerospace Introduction to Aviation Camp came from Chattanooga, Mt. Juliet, Franklin, Brentwood, Nashville, Murfreesboro and other Tennessee cities. The three dozen 12- to 18-year-olds came to soak in all they could from aerospace’s diverse offerings — professional…
MTSU junior Jacob Hendrixson wanted to be around cars and work on cars when he started Central Magnet School’s Car Club four years ago. “Now we want to race cars,” said Hendrixson. Hendrixson will compete in his second Great Race June 22-30 from Riverside, California, to Tacoma, Washington. He is the son of Sheriff’s Lt….
It’s showtime for the sixth year in a row for Middle Tennessee State University students who are part of a team of multimedia communicators to cover the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival — and earn college credit doing it. About 35 students for MTSU’s College of Media and Entertainment started work Thursday at the 700-acre…
Registration is underway for the 23rd annual Expanding Your Horizons in Math and Science Conference at MTSU, which will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, on the Middle Tennessee State University campus. Middle school and high school girls — rising fifth- through 12th-graders — are welcome to attend. The nonrefundable…
To say recent Middle Tennessee State University spring graduate Dalton Slatton “fit the bill” during his legislative internship would be somewhat of an understatement. Slatton, 21, of Whitwell, Tennessee, interned during the most recent session of the Tennessee General Assembly in Nashville, Tennessee, for state Sen. Jeff Yarbro, the Senate Democratic leader. Before graduating in…
Individual tickets for the second MTSU Veteran Impact Celebration are now on sale Monday, June 3, through the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center. The Veteran Impact Celebration, which will feature the country music legend Daniels, will be held Thursday, June 27, at The Grove at Williamson Place, 3250 Wilkinson Place, near…