A Veteran and Family Benefits Expo and family fun day will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 13, outside the MTSU Student Health, Wellness and Recreation Center, 1848 Blue Raider Drive, in Murfreesboro. More than 10 veteran service providers will be on hand with information regarding veterans benefits and employment opportunities. The…
A state-of-the-art aquarium with a variety of living ocean creatures is helping expand MTSU student perspectives in two biology-related classes. The glass tank — 25.6 inches wide and 59 inches long — holds 165 gallons of saltwater weighing more than 1,400 pounds not including the weight of the tank. Students taking invertebrate zoology and marine…
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee joined Middle Tennessee State University’s president and trustees Wednesday to underscore several of the institution’s ready-to-work degree programs that have been tailored to fit the needs of the state’s workforce. Students in one of those programs, Mechatronics Engineering, are getting state-of-the-art training through an in-kind grant from Siemens Digital Industries Software,…
Students and faculty from Middle Tennessee State University will arrive Friday in Las Vegas to celebrate alumni nominees in the 54th Academy of Country Music Awards and get behind-the-scenes instruction in the making of the national telecast. It marks the second year in a row that MTSU College of Media and Entertainment alumnus Pete Fisher,…
MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee helped congratulate nearly 500 Riverdale High School seniors Friday (April 5) on the occasion of the school’s inaugural College and Career Signing Day event in Johnny Parsley Memorial Gym. Invited as the keynote speaker, McPhee said he wanted “to recognize and celebrate the important decisions made by so many in…
Middle Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees on Wednesday (April 3) recommended the addition of master’s degree programs in speech-language pathology, biomedical sciences and public health. The degrees, which will ultimately go to the Tennessee Higher Education Committee for consideration, were requested by Provost Mark Byrnes and recommended by the board’s Academic Affairs, Student Life…
MTSU’s Baldwin Photographic Gallery now has a new state-of-the-art, temperature-controlled archive on campus that will allow faculty, staff and students to gain access to its extensive collection while also allowing the university to determine a more definitive value of a rich trove of visual art. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee joined Department of Media Arts…
Officials from the Tennessee Department of Veterans Services and Tennessee Higher Education Commission met Tuesday (March 26) with leaders from the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center at Middle Tennessee State University. THEC Executive Director Mike Krause and part of his staff joined new Tennessee Department of Veterans Services Commissioner Courtney Rogers…
MTSU’s aerospace department and a popular national energy drink’s parent company are looking for a few good paper airplane makers. The aerospace department will host the Red Bull-sponsored Paper Wings Regional Qualifier at the MTSU Flight Operations Center’s Donald McDonald Aerospace Maintenance Laboratory (hangar) at Murfreesboro Airport at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 27. Any MTSU…
Though he considers himself an introvert who grew up in a camping trailer in the middle of the desert behind a garage and experienced a tough upbringing, Civil Air Patrol Maj. Gen. Mark Smith’s extroverted side brought motivation and inspiration to an overflow Middle Tennessee State University classroom. The national commander of the U.S. Air…