Gov. Bill Haslam’s proposed state budget released Tuesday includes a $38 million recommendation to build a new academic classroom building for MTSU’s College of Behavioral and Health Sciences. The MTSU building, ranked No. 1 on the higher education priority list by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, is among $94.8 million in capital outlay projects that…
By the end of the third Hack-MT at Middle Tennessee State University Sunday (Jan. 28), there was plenty of cheering and whooping and hollering from a bunch of tired people. Along the way from Friday (Jan. 26) until the science fair portion of the event Sunday morning, a wealth of collaboration and teamwork and an…
MTSU Theatre is setting the scene Feb. 1-3 for another collaboration with the Nashville Shakespeare Festival devoutly to be wished on the Tucker Theatre stage: the woes of that troubled Danish prince, Hamlet. Director Denice Hicks, who brought the glamorous fairy queen Titania to life at MTSU in last fall’s joint production of “A Midsummer…
The Secret Sisters, an Americana duo that includes MTSU alumna Laura Rogers, was honored Saturday by the College of Media and Entertainment at its annual industry event preceding the Grammy Awards. Rogers and her sister, Lydia Rogers, are nominated for Best Folk Album in Sunday’s 60th Grammy Awards. They shared their excitement, and some life…
The Murfreesboro City Council will meet in a special meeting on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, at 5 p.m. in Room 218 at City Hall, 111 West Vine Street, to discuss the recruitment for a City Manager. Who: The Murfreesboro City Council. What: The Council will gather to discuss recruitment of a City Manager. When: Thursday,…
Representatives from the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center recently thanked Nashville business LKQ Corp. for its hiring of MTSU student veteran Jason Gill. Led by Keith M. Huber, senior adviser for veterans and leadership initiatives, and Daniels Center Director Hilary Miller, MTSU’s veterans program awarded a certificate of appreciation to LKQ executives Friday (Jan. 19) at their Grassmere Park Drive…
Lindsey VanParys said middle school was so easy for her that after hearing the information once “it just clicks,” while fellow Oakland High School senior Kyle Lennon said “middle school was almost like a cyclical pattern.” Shevaughn Holness agreed. “I never had to try in any of my classes,” she recalled, “and I got straight…
The original “Karate Kid” was released on June 22, 1984. The popular teen film was almost as old – 16 years, four months and 13 days – as Hunter Carney is now – 16 years, 11 months and 14 days – when the Stewarts Creek High School junior was born November 4, 2000. Carney was…
The annual spring musical means as much to Siegel High School as the state title won by the baseball team last spring. “If you talk to people around the state,” Siegel Principal Larry Creasy said, “they’re going to know us for our fine arts program.” Yeah, the spring musical is the cornerstone for an arts…
The late Chris Kyle famously wrote “it is our duty to serve those who serve us” in his bestselling memoir. Wills McAdams, an eighth-grader at Central Magnet School, has not yet read “American Sniper.” He never even saw the Academy Award-winning movie version directed by Clint Eastwood. And yet the 14-year-old from Murfreesboro has embodied…