Steven Livingston

Almost $1.4B in Tenn. exports could be targeted in trade war: MTSU professor

Steven Livingston, associate director of MTSU’s Business and Economic Research Center, recently outlined potential impacts on Tennessee exports from a trade war. According to Livingston, Tennessee exports worth $1.38 billion are on the lists of goods that the EU, China, Canada, and Mexico will retaliate against following President Donald Trump’s recent decisions to impose tariffs…

MTSU's Lisa Schrader receives award

MTSU’s Schrader lands top state honor for alcohol, drug, violence prevention

MTSU’s Lisa Schrader, director of Health Promotion, has been presented a statewide award by the Coalition for Healthy and Safe Campus Communities. The Susanna L. Baxter Drug, Alcohol, and Violence Prevention in Higher Education Award is given every two years to a person in the state of Tennessee who, like Baxter, “has volunteered his or…

MTSU Star Party Mars Opposition

Get rare close-up look at ‘the red planet’ Friday during special Star Party at MTSU

MTSU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy will be giving the public a chance to get a closer look at Mars and other planets during “opposition” on Friday, July 27, for this month’s Star Party event. From 8 to 11 p.m. Friday, the public can view Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and the moon at the MTSU Observatory…

Camp Ability of Special Kids

MTSU Women’s Basketball Hosted Clinic at Camp Ability of Special Kids

On Friday, July 20, the MTSU Women’s basketball team and staff hosted a basketball clinic for children and youth with special needs attending Camp ability of Special Kids. There are 80 campers with special needs ages 6-25 years attending Camp Ability of Special Kids this summer. “We are grateful to the entire MTSU women’s basketball…

EYH Pearl the Bulldog

Registration continues for girls’ Oct. 27 math-science event at MTSU

Registration is underway for the 22nd annual Expanding Your Horizons in Math and Science Conference at MTSU, which will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, on the Middle Tennessee State University campus. Middle school and high school girls — rising sixth- through 12th-graders — from across the Midstate are welcome…

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MTSU student using Campus Rec to achieve lofty 100-pound weight-loss goal

In the fall of 2016, MTSU student Caleb King had no idea that an elective class would change his outlook on his health — and change his life for the better. A 100-pound weight loss journey that started in the Murphy Center and became permanent at the MTSU Recreation Center, better known as the Rec,…

MTSU aerospace

Delta partners with MTSU Aerospace through Innovative Propel Program

Delta is launching the Delta Propel Pilot Career Path Program to identify and mentor the next generation of pilots and the Middle Tennessee State University Department of Aerospace has been selected as one of eight initial collegiate partners. According to the airline’s announcement July 17, Delta expects to hire more than 8,000 pilots in the…

First Veteran Impact Celebration raises $170K-plus for Daniels Center

First Veteran Impact Celebration raises $170K-plus for Daniels Center

Legendary country music superstar Charlie Daniels shook hands and mixed and mingled many of the more than 200 people attending the inaugural MTSU Veteran Impact Celebration Thursday (June 28) at The Grove at Williamson Place. He held court for an hour for a number of news media wanting interviews. Later, he performed “In America” and…

Project SEED

Project SEED helps Central Magnet student get jump start on future career

High school senior Jessica Bullock of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, did not hesitate when given the opportunity to participate in MTSU’s Project SEED Program. The 16-year-old Central Magnet student heard about the summer immersive program through a friend who had previously participated — and what she learned sparked her interest. “I thought that’d be a good opportunity…