Middle Tennessee State University alumnus Torrance “Street Symphony” Esmond, honored Saturday by his alma mater as part of its events before the Grammy Awards, had three pieces of advice to current students. The multiple Grammy and Dove award winner told them to graduate, network and take advantage of all the opportunities that the College of…
Six students from the MTSU Department of Recording Industry, who were selected by chair Beverly Keel to represent the university, went both backstage and on stage Friday as the Recording Academy prepared Staples Center to host Sunday’s national telecast. The students, along with professor Matthew O’Brien, also met with Billboard magazine’s west coast editor, Melinda Newman, and artist executive Jay Landers, who…
The MTSU Honors College, Office of Admissions and various departments across campus are collaborating for the annual Presidents Day Open House. The daylong event is scheduled for Presidents Day, Monday, Feb. 18, for high school and transfer students across the region and beyond. The Honors College offers personalized teaching, smaller classes and a competitive edge…
Middle Tennessee State University starts its sixth annual outreach at the 61st annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles this weekend with a series of events for alumni, artists and executives with ties with its Department of Recording Industry. President Sidney A. McPhee, Dean Ken Paulson of the College of Media and Entertainment and Beverly Keel,…
Middle Tennessee State University School of Concrete and Construction Management Director Heather Brown was supposed to be on a working trip to Nebraska. But others in the know had other plans for her and resorted to very persuasive maneuvers to keep her from going to Nebraska and also teaching a concrete class at MTSU. So…
Middle Tennessee State University will host hundreds of prospective students and their families Saturday, Feb. 9, for the first of two MTSU Preview Days on campus. MTSU holds preview days as a way for prospective students to see the campus, take tours given by student guides, learn about departments, programs and student organizations and meet…
Teams from Alabama and Arkansas landed invitations to the FIRST Robotics National Championship later this year in Houston, Texas, during the FIRST Tech Challenge Tennessee Regional Robotics Competition Feb. 2 in MTSU’s Alumni Memorial Gym. Tech Hogs Robotics of Springdale, Arkansas, and The Time Travelers from Huntsville Christian Academy in Huntsville, Alabama, earned their spots…
The Tennessee Business Barometer dropped sharply from the end of last year, according to the latest snapshot of business leaders’ opinions as measured by MTSU’s Jones College of Business. The Business Barometer Index now stands at 355, down from 525 in October 2018, and its lowest level since before the presidential election in 2016. “Even…
Three Eagle Scouts with MTSU ties — retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Huber of the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center; alumnus and Rutherford County Mayor Bill Ketron; and Board of Trustees member J.B. Baker — took part Friday in a ceremony by the Middle Tennessee Council of Boy Scouts of America…
The spring MTSU Department of Physics and Astronomy Star Party series begins Friday, Feb. 1, when professor John Wallin discusses “Cosmic Chemistry” in Wiser-Patten Science Hall Room 102. First Friday Star Parties are a way for the department to bring MTSU, Murfreesboro and surrounding communities together. There will be a lecture followed by telescope viewing…