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Tennessee’s exports dropped by almost $500 million in “a poor fourth quarter” of 2018, according to the latest “Global Commerce”

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The vast diversity of artists and experiences that make up Nashville’s love affair with music was the topic on a recent “MTSU On the Record” radio program.

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From China, to Washington, D.C., to right here in Rutherford County, representatives from more than 40 school districts and educational entities convened on the Middle Tennessee State University campus this week seeking to hire the next crop of new teachers to help lead their classrooms.

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Two young women of color who dare to be different are in the spotlight on the next “MTSU On the Record” radio program.

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Students in MTSU’s Jones College of Business now have access to an innovative sales laboratory that will allow them to hone their selling skills in their efforts to become ready-to-hire graduates.

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The new MTSU Data Science Institute officially launched in mid-May with a mission to promote funded interdisciplinary research and develop public and private collaborations around the emerging field of “big data.”

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Former Tennessee Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen holds a 10-percentage-point lead over Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn among state voters in a head-to-head contest for the seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, according to the latest MTSU Poll.

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House Speaker Beth Harwell led a delegation of Tennessee legislators to campus Monday, Feb. 5, to learn more about Middle Tennessee State University’s Tennessee Center for Botanical Medicine Research and its ongoing studies with nonpsychotropic cannabinoids, which are derived from hemp.

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The new Africana Studies major at MTSU is the first of its kind in the region and the only one in Tennessee that provides the option of either a Bachelor of Arts degree or a Bachelor of Science degree.

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Middle Tennessee State University researchers will use the grant to experiment with ginseng. The effort is expected to improve farmers’ income across the state and conserve wild ginseng, which is considered an endangered species, in Tennessee.

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In its 51st year, the Oral History Association has chosen MTSU for its headquarters and its co-chairs will be Louis Kyriakoudes, director of the university’s Albert Gore Research Center, and history professor Kris McCusker.

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Lead researcher Iris Gao with the Tennessee Center for Botanical Medicine Research reports the isolation and identification of a new, patented compound, DMDD, from the root of the tropical star fruit tree, is helping treat this form of cancer.

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Middle Tennessee State University has launched a new online, searchable encyclopedia about the First Amendment with the university’s John Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies.

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Murfreesboro City and Rutherford County Schools’ teachers are receiving free tutoring from MTSU physics and astronomy faculty on a “dark” but sizzling subject — the looming total solar eclipse.

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Academic 'three-plus-three' partnership will shave two years off of getting a medical degree while requiring new physicians to commit to serving for a period of time in underserved, rural areas of the state.

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A unique partnership between MTSU and the Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences will allow MTSU undergraduate students to interact daily with European scientists as the students conduct National Science Foundation-funded research on liquid crystals.

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One MTSU student engineering team placed in the top 10 in the world while a second team earned two major technical awards at the 2017 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge.

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With questions continuing to swirl around President Donald Trump’s attitude toward Russian President Vladimir Putin, the future of U.S.-Russia relations in the Trump administration is the focus of the next “MTSU On the Record” radio program.

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MTSU faculty experts recently expressed themselves for national media outlets on several hot button topics, including various election-related issues and Russian perspectives on American politics.

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Middle Tennessee State University and Tecport Optics of Orlando, Florida, have entered into a licensing agreement to commercialize the university’s biosensor technology as a medical diagnostic tool for research labs and point-of-care health professionals. Tecport’s “cold plasma” thin film technology allows affordable fabrication of the multilayers used so that they can be used as a disposable supply for a biosensor.

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Middle Tennessee State University aerospace students are finally getting the chance to receive hands-on training — and a leg up in the job market — using a state-of-the-art aviation program donated earlier this year.

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With the format change on Sept. 2, the 100,000-watt station, known going forward as WMOT-FM/Roots Radio 89.5, will become the region’s only channel devoted to the unique amalgam of bluegrass, folk, gospel, soul, country and blues music defined in the music industry as Americana. The station boasts the clearest and strongest radio signal in greater Nashville.

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New science-based standards for identifying human remains based on X-rays was the subject of a recent “MTSU On the Record” radio program.

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A $714,000 USDA grant to MTSU will support partnership to discover novel ways of land management and solve important ecological problems in changing climates and agricultural management.

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Alumnus John Hurt’s unique donations of geodesic domes to the MTSU aerospace and biology departments will aid unmanned aircraft systems and spider research for students and faculty.

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MTSU Constitutional law expert Dr. John Vile offers insights on the Second Amendment and ongoing gun control debate.

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Although strongly protective of gun rights in general, most Tennessee voters favor requiring background checks for gun sales among private individuals and at gun shows and support laws to prevent the mentally ill from buying guns, according to the latest MTSU Poll.

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Middle Tennessee State University and the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry have partnered to launch the Tennessee Business Barometer, a new quarterly index capturing the mood and outlook of business leaders statewide through online surveys. The index consists of a core set of 17 questions, with the overall index score computed by adding the percentage of favorable responses to each question and subtracting the percentage of negative responses.

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Middle Tennessee State University’s Center for Popular Music has completed a groundbreaking digitization project to launch its new American Vernacular Music Manuscripts website. Hundreds of American music manuscripts from the 1730s to 1910 are available online for the first time at http://popmusic.mtsu.edu/ManuscriptMusic.

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Alternative fuels researcher Cliff Ricketts is taking another cross-country journey using no gasoline, this time using a process to turn waste animal fat and waste vegetable oil into fuel. Ricketts and a small team, including students, will take his 1981 pickup truck across the U.S.

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The MTSU Jones College of Business has entered an exclusive partnership with Dale Carnegie Training to embed for-credit "soft skills" training into the curriculum for all business majors.

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With a $388,894 grant from the federal agency, Drs. Don Morgan and Sandy Stevens will recruit, test and follow up with clients suitable for walking in MTSU’s underwater treadmill laboratory beginning in fall 2014. Thirty participants, some of whom will be part of a control group, will help the scientists determine the impact of underwater treadmill training on partially paralyzed individuals’ mobility, health and quality of life.

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Middle Tennessee State University is partnering with two Turkish universities to pursue groundbreaking automotive research and development surrounding the plug-in hybrid technology developed by an MTSU professor. MTSU has signed a letter of intent with Meliksah University and Firat University in Turkey to pursue an academic and industrial partnership to further develop Dr. Charles Perry’s retrofit wheel-hub motor. Perry has gained international attention for his technology, which has the potential to cut a vehicle’s fuel consumption by half or more by turning it into a hybrid powered by gasoline and electricity.

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Two student teams in a Principles of Management-Experiential Learning class squared off this semester — not in the classroom, but in the very real-world environment of the Nissan Americas headquarters in Franklin, Tenn.

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As a Middle Tennessee State University alternative fuels researcher, Dr. Cliff Ricketts believes he stands on the edge of history.

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Nissan North America Inc. announced Tuesday it has donated two Nissan LEAF cars and three charging stations to Middle Tennessee State University to promote the use of electric-vehicle technology. The cars will be added to the university’s motor pool. The charging stations will be available for use by students, faculty, staff and visitors to campus.

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Elaine Mitchell Palmore, the director of MTSU's Child Development Center, is writing children's literature for the needs of today's children. She tries to help children understand about divorce and families dealing with substance abuse or any life-controlling issue. Illustrated by Norris Hall.

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Technology similar to what people see in the “Avatar” movie series has reached the MTSU classroom—and “it brings science to life,” said Dr. Anatoliy Volkov, who has helped bring it to campus. Student researchers are touting new advanced 3-D visualization and GPU-based high-performance computing—affecting medical images such as CT and MRI scans—that is setting MTSU apart from other universities.

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After walking for days on end, tramping from country to country to avoid being murdered, earning a master’s degree may seem a lark by comparison. MTSU math instructor Alier Reng was born in the southern region of Sudan in Africa in 1981. He, his family and others endured pain, suffering and tribulations on the road to eventual independence.

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The next superstar of the Muslim world might not be a political activist or a crusading journalist; instead it just might be a Lebanese singer who was raised in Sweden, worked in New York City and lives in Malaysia. That’s only one of the fascinating insights Dr. Sean Foley gained during his 15-month trip to Southeast Asia in 2010-11.

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From facilitating missile strikes on terrorists to keeping soldiers from harm’s way by defusing IED’s in war zones, unmanned aerial and ground vehicles have transitioned from Hollywood scripts to military necessities. MTSU will be at the forefront of that research by partnering with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps to improve and expand this technology.

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Reaching a milestone fueled by student researchers' quality work, Dr. Charles Perry's 50- to 100-percent gas-saving wheel-hub motor, plug-in hybrid retrofit kit's success is leading to dialogue with potential companies with fleets of vehicles to solicit funds to build and demonstrate a manufacturing version of this technology.

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Alternative fuels expert Dr. Cliff Ricketts of Middle Tennessee State University firmly believes he can go coast-to-coast on l0 gallons of gasoline or less. His attempts will be March 3-8, 2012, and in 2013.

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Occupy Wall Street and other U.S. and worldwide movements reveal a general dissatisfaction with contemporary economic practice. The current economic mess is rooted in errors that were identified more than 70 years ago by Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984), a Canadian philosopher and economist.

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Five computer science students have developed a Android mobile app that has been adopted for use at their university. Specific departments on campus are now requesting their services.

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This fall, as Middle Tennessee State University’s School of Agribusiness and Agriscience begins a second century of educating undergraduate and graduate students, its dairy farm will undergo a ‘moo’-ving experience.

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MTSU and the Army signed a memorandum of understanding that will create a relationship between the university's Umanned Aircraft System research efforts and the Army UAS Program Office.

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After suffering a broken neck and spinal-cord damage in an auto accident, Janette Rodgers was nearly taken off life-support. Today, she is walking to her mailbox and doing some housework, thanks, in part, to underwater-treadmill therapy.

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After becoming a full professor, Jackie Gilbert felt the need to purge her office (and her life) of papers, files, notebooks and artifacts--all those things that were cluttering her life and mind. It was liberating, she says.