The MTSU Department of Art and Design announces Winner’s Circle 2018, an invitational showcase of artworks from the Kindergarten through 12th grade students of Murfreesboro City Schools, Rutherford County Schools, area private schools like Saint Rose of Lima, and community home-schoolers. Scheduled May 11-19, 2018, a closing Awards Reception is planned Saturday, May 19, 1:00…
Middle Tennessee State University’s equestrian team has sent individual riders to the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association National Championship for many years. However, it had been five years since the well-respected program had qualified as a team. Now, a third-place finish at nationals is how coach Ariel Herrin capped off her first year as coach following…
For MTSU senior Jaylan Ashley, her inspiration for becoming a special education teacher came from volunteering with her aunt. “My aunt is a speech pathologist, and I volunteered with her in high school with kids who had special needs,” said Ashley, a native of Nashville, Tennessee. “I met a little boy with Down syndrome who…
The presidents of Motlow State Community College and Middle Tennessee State University signed an agreement Tuesday that highlights the pathways for Motlow students with associate degrees to move seamlessly to the four-year university. The agreement, signed on the college’s Smyrna campus with MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, was one of the first official actions by…
MTSU students and alumni finalists received helpful feedback toward launching future business ventures during the 2018 Pam Wright Business Plan Competition to wrap up the spring semester. Sponsored by The Pam Wright Chair in Entrepreneurship in MTSU’s Jones College of Business, the contest presented a platform for aspiring entrepreneurs to pitch their plans to five…
First-year coach Ariel Herrin likes her Middle Tennessee State University equestrian team’s chances in the four-day Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association National Championships starting Thursday (May 3) at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The IHSA nationals is the culmination of the season for nine MTSU riders. It marks the first time in five…
While some students decide where they’ll be headed for summer vacation, others are figuring out where their next meal will be coming from. Thanks to MTSU’s Fraternity and Sorority Life, MTSU’s Student Food Pantry will soon be stocked with more than 3,000 items of canned food and other nonperishable goods for the summer. Current students…
Holding the actual clipping in The Tennessean from 2017, where the newspaper reported MTSU’s Department of Engineering Technology needed a new building for its growing mechatronics engineering program, Jean Gould admitted publicly she “didn’t even know anything about mechatronics.” “Mechatronics was a new term for me,” she said. “But when I learned that it was…
Young geniuses interested in all things science will experience pasta mobiles, pentathlons and more during the 11th annual Elementary Science Olympiad. A total of 17 teams from 14 different elementary schools will be putting their thinking caps on Saturday, April 28, at host John Pittard Elementary School, located at 745 Dejarnette Lane in Murfreesboro. More…
Daniel Ladendorf and Ed Russell knew they were going to receive an award during the 10th MTSU Graduating Veterans Stole Ceremony. They probably were not aware of the first-time significance. MTSU officials with the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center awarded the Veteran Leadership Award and Journey Award to Ladendorf and Russell,…