MTSU’s Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition, or CALA, is hosting its 16th annual Summer Language Institute at MTSU. The CALA Summer Language Institute offers five-day accelerated language courses for adults (age 13 and up) in Italian, Japanese, Latin, and Spanish. CALA, the language training center of the MTSU Honors College, offers accelerated language classes engineered…
Officials with the MTSU Campus Pharmacy, assisted by a student and administrator from the Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy, collected more than 51 pounds of unwanted drugs dropped off by the public Tuesday (April 23) near the pharmacy’s drive-thru on the east side of campus. More than 20 pounds of over-the-counter medications, 27 pounds of…
Middle Tennessee State University has been ranked among college and universities across the country having one of the best Bachelor of Criminal Justice degree programs in 2019, according to the website TheBestSchools.org. TheBestSchools.org, which tries to connect prospective students with available online degree programs, states that it reviewed all accredited online Bachelor of Criminal Justice…
MTSU’s Student Food Pantry received a significant helping hand in replenishing its stock this week thanks to a friendly competition among the university’s fraternities and sororities. This spring’s recent Greek Week food drive collected 7,764 nonperishable items and $2,084.50 in funds to help ongoing operations of the pantry, which is free to MTSU students in…
Middle Tennessee State University’s Department of Recording Industry honored alumni and Lanco members Chandler Baldwin, Jared Hampton and Eric Steedly for their outstanding accomplishments and excellence in artistic expression on Wednesday, April 17, at BMI in Nashville. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee presented certificates honoring Baldwin, (Class of 2014), Hampton, (Class of 2014), and Steedly,…
The MTSU campus community and general public are welcome to participate in the next MTSU Drug Take-Back Day from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, near the Campus Pharmacy drive-thru. Expired, unused, and unwanted prescription and over-the-counter medicines will be accepted, said Lisa Schrader, director of Health Promotion, who added, that if possible,…
A third donation in three years — this one for $15,000 — from Grammy Award-nominated Mississippi rock band 3 Doors Down’s Better Life Foundation will continue to benefit MTSU students and faculty working in equine therapy with veterans from the Murfreesboro-based Veterans Recovery Center. The money will go toward yet-to-be-determined program improvements, said Andrea Rego,…
The new chicken exhibit area inside the MTSU Tennessee Livestock Center was a huge hit with the elementary school youngsters. You could call it Chicken Row on one side of the main arena. From incubation to newly hatched to little chicks to grown fowl, the full life cycle of the farm animal was on display…
Middle Tennessee State University’s Center for Health and Human Services has formed a research partnership to highlight the importance of sleep quality in the overall health of Tennesseans and that of the nation. The university’s new Sleep Research Consortium was formed this past year to perform research and increase public awareness of how important sleep…
Nashville teenager John Cullen has been playing electric guitar for two years. He takes lessons, and even has learned some licks to “Dust in the Wind” and Led Zeppelin’s classic “Stairway to Heaven.” So it was in the Saint Henry School eighth-grader’s lane to design and build a wooden mini guitar as part of the…