Veteran Impact Celebration raises $150,000-plus for MTSU Daniels Center
A late-afternoon thunderstorm didn’t dampen the spirits or enthusiasm for those attending the second MTSU Veteran Impact Celebration at The Grove at Williamson Place Thursday (June 27). Dodging the downpour, veterans appeared along with local business owners, musicians, MTSU staff and administrators and even three local mayors. The event raised more than $150,000 for the…
Civil Air Patrol cadets experience E-Tech academy at MTSU
Brothers Michael and Aden Luchtefeld didn’t have to fly in for the Civil Air Patrol national E-Tech Engineering Technologies Academy like many of their fellow cadets had to do this week at Middle Tennessee State University. The Luchtefelds, who are homeschooled, live 20 minutes away, in Christiana, Tennessee. Other participants came from New Jersey, Georgia,…
MTSU signs aerospace partnership with Kenyan university
The global demand for professional pilots helped propel a partnership approved Monday between Middle Tennessee State University and Moi University of Kenya. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and Isaac Kosgey, Moi’s chief executive officer, signed a five-year pact that will allow their respective aerospace faculty to collaborate on teaching, research and student exchanges. The two…
MTSU Daniels Veterans Center leaves impression on US Sen. Blackburn
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…
MTSU Marketing and Communications team earns 17 TCPRA awards
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…
McPhee to Board of Trustees: MTSU top choice of Tennessee Promise transfers
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 Jones College names Tom Walker as new accounting chairholder of excellence
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…
Campers soar at weeklong MTSU Introduction to Aviation
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…
Central Magnet Car Club competes in Great Race
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….