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…
MTSU students often toil one or more semesters — and sometimes year-round — to be part of the annual Scholars Week, which will be held March 18-22 across the MTSU campus. MTSU Scholars Week is an annual weeklong celebration of research, scholarship, and creative projects. All events are free and open to the public. To…
Middle Tennessee State University will host hundreds of prospective students and their families Saturday, March 23, for an MTSU Preview Day on campus. MTSU holds preview days as a way for prospective students to see the campus, take tours provided by student guides, learn about departments, programs and student organizations and meet faculty and staff…
MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, in a note to university community Friday, underscored MTSU’s standing as a destination of choice for first-generation students and its long success in helping low-income students who meet admission standards overcome obstacles often posed by tuition and fees. McPhee’s message follows an announcement by the University of Tennessee System that…
The semester-long college course is called SmokyMtnU, a catchy name provided by Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials in partnership with Middle Tennessee State University for a pilot four-credit biology course. Nine MTSU undergraduate students spent most of spring break recently in indoor and outdoor “laboratories” inside the park, viewing elk and fish being studied…
A new program within MTSU’s Jennings A. Jones College of Business is filling an increasing need for sales professionals in the Mid-state economy with the support of partnerships and a team of industry advisors. Launched last fall, the new Professional Sales concentration within the Department of Marketing was made possible through a $100,000 donation from…
Time will be the subject of MTSU Department of Physics and Astronomy associate professor Nat Smith’s presentation for the next Star Party at 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 15. The talk, which is titled “Something about Time,” will be held in Room 102 of Wiser-Patten Science Hall. Star Parties are a way for the department to…
The Rutherford and Cannon County Bar Association is offering free consultation for MTSU student veterans and their families Saturday, March 16, at MTSU. The consultation with a licensed attorney will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center, Room 124, in Keathley University Center….