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…
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…