Hot dust turned to soggy mud Sunday in Coffee County, but that didn’t stop students from Middle Tennessee State University’s College of Media and Entertainment from getting their work done at the 2018 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. MTSU’s crew of about 35 students was among those who were asked to leave the festival’s main…
Terry Oxford of Bowling Green, Kentucky, knew he and his son, Jason, were driving to Murfreesboro Monday (June 11) for a special presentation at Middle Tennessee State University. Not long after arriving, Terry Oxford understood the full impact. MTSU Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center officials presented Oxford, a Vietnam veteran and…
Sixty young people from seven states received two full days of all things lamb and goat at the annual Massey Show Lamb Camp in the MTSU Tennessee Livestock Center. The youngsters, ages 5 to 18, gained a new or better understanding of how to care for their animals and to prepare them to be shown…
With the registration deadline quickly approaching and spaces still available, the MTSU Office of Alumni Relations looks forward to bringing “better living” to some of its faithful alums and supporters during the 11th annual Alumni Summer College on June 20-22. Highlights of this year’s three-day event will be entertainment by Emmy-nominated comedian Chonda Pierce, a…
Middle Tennessee State University and its primary research partner in China agreed to create a joint ginseng institute that will study, develop and promote Tennessee-grown herbal products for sale in Asia and other emerging markets. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and Miao Jianhua, director of the Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants, signed the agreement…
For the second consecutive year, members of the MTSU Robotics Club shined at the National Robotics Challenge recently at the Marion County Fairgrounds in Marion, Ohio. This year, MTSU emerged with gold and silver awards in the Mini-Sumo Robot competition, silver and bronze in Combat Robot competition and a bronze in the Autonomous Vehicles Challenge….
Approximately 600 Murfreesboro City School third-graders from six schools experienced MTSU farm life during a field trip on Wednesday. The field trip is the culminating event for third grade as part of the Farm to School curriculum. About half of the Murfreesboro City Schools third-graders learned about the MTSU gardens while the rest took in…
Middle Tennessee State University helped its primary partner in China, Hangzhou Normal University, celebrate its 110th birthday, participating in a series of events that wrapped up Monday. HNU, which helps MTSU operate the Confucius Institute on the Murfreesboro campus, marked the anniversary of its 1908 founding with an international assembly of scholars, which featured MTSU…
Tennessee again attracted substantial foreign investment in 2017, amounting to roughly $2 billion from 11 different countries, according to the latest “Global Commerce” report from MTSU’s Business and Economic Research Center. This investment by 19 foreign-owned firms created almost 3,400 new jobs, and the amount of new investment was the highest over the past 10…
MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee began a lecture series Wednesday (May 9) that will take him to four Chinese universities as part of a concerted effort to share American culture with high-ability students who are considering potential study-abroad opportunities. McPhee’s first stop on his lecture circuit was at North China University of Technology, on the…