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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Outstanding high school chemistry students from across the region participated in the recent Middle Tennessee State University Department of Chemistry Scholarship Tournament. Held in the Science Building in early November, the competition recognized 45 outstanding chemistry students from 14 schools in Rutherford and surrounding counties. Participants included 29 seniors and 16 juniors who had completed a year of chemistry. Incen...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Middle Tennessee State University School of Agriculture faculty are part of a group collectively awarded $18.1 million by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to educate and develop tomorrow’s agricultural leaders from all communities. MTSU faculty will receive nearly $901,400 from the USDA’s overall $262.5 million earmarked for higher education institutions to foster the next genera...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Straight-A high school student Addy Henninger looked toward studying physics in college until she discovered robotics about two years ago after her family moved to Tennessee from Chicago, Illinois. A senior at Central Magnet School, one of the top schools in the state and nation, Henninger is president of the Robotics Club “after coming in with zero technical experience and minimal leadership experience.” Henninger was one of more than...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Middle Tennessee State University officials cut the ribbon Thursday, Oct. 13, to officially open the new $40.1 million School of Concrete and Construction Management Building students just began utilizing on the west side of campus as they prepare for professional careers in a high-demand sector throughout the Midstate and beyond. The 54,000-square-foot facility will be an integrated and experiential learning laboratory for 135 current C...

PHOTO ABOVE THIS STORY: MTSU student Ryleigh Porter, center, assists MTSU STEM summer camp participants Cianna Da'ccursio, left, of Watertown, Tenn., and Samantha "Sam" Osborne of Mt. Juliet, Tenn., with their chemistry project during the July 11-15 College of Basic and Applied Sciences inaugural event for rising sophomores and juniors in a Science Building classroom. Da’ccursio is a student at Watertown High School and Osborne is a Green Hill High School student. The co...

Above Photo: MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, second from left, presents aerospace alumnus Colton Gray of Lebanon, Tenn., a framed certificate of recognition for becoming the first Delta Propel pilot program graduate, as aerospace Chair Chaminda Prelis, left, and Keith M. Huber, senior adviser for veterans and leadership initiatives applaud with the rest of the audience. MTSU and Delta celebrated the occasion Tuesday, April 5, in the MTSU Science Building’s Liz and Creighton Rhea Atriu...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Approaching 30, Marie McCord finds herself a nontraditional student about to graduate from MTSU in May — and mapping out the next chapters of her life. McCord, one of 60 students participating in the seventh annual HackMT Jan. 28-30 in the Science Building, has spent the past three years commuting from her Antioch, Tennessee, home to Murfreesboro, where she’s a computer science major, with minors in ...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Heather Brown, the longtime professor and former director of the of the MTSU School of Concrete and Construction Management, was recognized by her peers and industry leaders at a special event Tuesday, Oct. 26, at the Embassy Suites Hotel Nashville SE Murfreesboro.Brown, who was the face of the MTSU program for 20 years before leaving this year to become vice president of quality control and quality assurance with Indianapolis, Indiana-based Irving Materi...

Teen prodigies pursue pre-med pathway as thriving MTSU freshmen Apr 05, 2021 at 01:14 pm by WGNS MTSU Department of Biology chair Dennis Mullen, left, talks with the Alnassari family — mom Khadijah, who is a freshman, and triplets Zaynab Alnassari, Ahmed and Fatima during a visit to a Science Building lab. The triplets are dual enrollment freshmen and on a premed pathway. (MTSU photo by Andy Heidt) MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — At age 14, the amazing Alnassari triplets may b...