EMC Productions is an official student-run TV production company at MTSU that is turning out top-quality work and providing students with hands-on applied learning.
MTSU's new ATC lab features a seamless, 360-degree fiberglass control tower. It is 9 feet high with a diameter fo 29 feet. Ten radar suites simulate enroute and approach environments and pseudopilot positions.
Middle Tennessee State University is reviving its successful study-abroad excursion to Cuba for summer 2011 after a six-year hiatus caused by government travel restriction.
Aviation officials and experts from MTSU and China will discuss airspace management, air traffic control systems, regional airline development in China, the role of charter airlines and business trends in both nations.
MTSU agriscience professor will drive 500 miles across Tennessee on from Bristol, Va., to West Memphis, Ark., in a Toyota fueled by sun and water. His goal for 2011 is to go coast to coast using just 10 gallons of gas.
Students have built two 10X10-foot air-conditioned walk-in packing sheds on the university farm that will keep produce fresh for market.
MTSU faculty and students wrote and recorded public service announcements encouraging Hispanic students to go to college and helping them to prepare.
A new partnership in the Southeast U.S. between education and industry will be on the ground floor of what officials call a growth "tsunami."
Two major studies out of MTSU tout job growth in allied health fields and the booming health-care industry in Nashville, Tenn. MTSU places a premium on partnerships and student participation in serving the public good.
One exercise-science researcher has founded an adaptive-recreation camp that he hopes will serve as a template for others willing to offer physically challenged youth the chance to develop and adopt active lifestyles.
"Real Sportsmanship," an online program for players and coaches, has helped reduce ejections in high school football by more than 60 percent over three years. It has been adopted by the Sun Belt Conference for five years.
Sandra Stevens, doctoral student in human performance, has been working with underwater-treadmill therapy and victims of severe spinal-cord trauma with encouraging results.
MTSU can help keep citizens safer from lead poisoning and train more law-enforcement personnel thanks to new federal grants totaling $850,000 to expand lead-hazard outreach and forensic science training.
Dr. Gerhard L. Weinberg, a World War II scholar who is professor emeritus of history and perhaps best known for his discovery of a book penned by Adolf Hitler, will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 International Holocaust Studies Conference on Oct. 22-24 at MTSU.
The personal papers, records and memorabilia of honky-tonking Texan Charlie Walker, the consummate disc jockey-turned-country star with hits like “Pick Me Up on Your Way Down” and “Wild as a Wildcat,” are now being catalogued at MTSU’s Center for Popular Music in a collection that archivists say is “invaluable to researchers, particularly those looking into the business of country music.”
One MTSU political science professor says investing in a green economy will create jobs and a healthier environment, according to his research.
A four-year university and two-year community college in Tennessee are creating admission criteria that will provide a seamless transition from associate degree to a bachelor's degree that will boost enrollment, lower costs and foster academic success.
It's called a Plug-in Hybrid Retrofit Kit. It could double the average mileage per gallon. If 50 percent of the automobiles in America used it, it could save 120 million gallons of fuel per day"”globally, as much as 600 million gallons per day. It will reduce our dependence on oil. It will reduce carbon emissions and could create 2,000 new manufacturing jobs. A potential foreign market is growing daily.
Armed with a $165,000 EPA grant, one MTSU geosciences professor is embarking on a study that's focused on determining water pollution based on the presence of two hard-shelled, hardy microorganisms. She's found the organisms in Florida rivers that are used regularly by people in the area, and now, she's launching a similar study in Virginia.
MTSU's Center for Health and Human Services has partnered with the Department of Health for the past five years to form coalitions throughout the state to educate citizens and encourage them to undergo cancer screenings. The partnership been renewed through 2012. Students are also getting involved. Tennessee ranks 3rd in the nation in cancer deaths. Experts are trying to find out why?
The Nov. 24, 2008, edition of TIME Magazine featured President-elect Barack Obama's face juxtaposed on Franklin D. Roosevelt's body, complete with confident beaming smile and cigarette holder. With experts describing the current national economy as the worst economic climate since the Great Depression, how valid are comparisons to the challenges faced by FDR then and the challenges facing Obama now? One MTSU professor says comparisons are not only tempting, but even somewhat warranted.
Environmental research at colleges and universities isn't just scientific anymore. Increasingly, scientists are taking an approach to their work that includes more than laboratory analysis. That is the concept behind CLEAR, or Collaborative Education and Research, the brainchild of three professors at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.
The most comprehensive reference compilation ever published on the United States' most fundamental freedom brings together the works of accomplished scholars to create the Encyclopedia of the First Amendment. This groundbreaking new two-volume set is published by Washington, D.C.-based CQ Press and is available now through bookstores and online at www.cqpress.com.
The Disney Keys to Excellence-leadership, management, loyalty and customer service, can assist educators in and outside of the classroom and certainly in the areas of recruitment and retention issues especially when it comes to such efforts as being student-centered and providing students with the very best environment possible"”physical, social and academic"”a total campus experience.
The 16th annual MTSU Economic Outlook Conference provides business and industry leaders, faculty, students and the public the opportunity to hear outstanding speakers from both the public and private sectors and to gain valuable insights into questions pertinent to today's economic issues on local, regional, and international levels.
Thanks to a recent partnership between Middle Tennessee State University, the Tennessee Department of Correction and the Great Books Foundation, a nonprofit educational organization, prisoners at three Nashville-area prisons recently had a chance to explore "the sweet serenity of books" by participating in a nine-week program titled Great Books in Middle Tennessee Prisons.
Dr. Andrew Owusu, assistant professor of health and human performance at Middle Tennessee State University, recently released the initial findings from a 2007 study that was the first of its kind to be conducted nationwide in Ghana, West Africa, on the health habits and health-risk behaviors of adolescents.
A new approach to understanding why a child doesn't learn how to read includes looking underneath the scores to the humanity of the individual. Children are indeed being left behind because the totality of the person isn't being taught. A new Literacy Studies degree forces professionals to rethink and relearn the teaching of reading by bringing together many disciplines that support successful literacy.
Dr. William F. Ford says that the economic issues related to the immigration debate are largely ignored in favor of focusing on the legal, political, social and cultural aspects of the issue. However, it's vital that economic considerations related to immigration"”including the major roles that both legal and illegal immigrants contribute to the labor force and production and spending"”be factored into the discourse, he says.
Although U.S. citizens can't vote on each individual issue or dilemma facing this nation, that's no excuse for Americans to refrain from participating in their own governance, declares Dr. Larry Burris, a First Amendment scholar and journalism professor, who adds that "the public's business should be conducted in public; not in smoke-filled rooms, restaurants or sports facilities."
Members of the House of Representatives recently passed legislation giving reporters the right to protect confidential sources in most federal cases, but the shield-law legislation's future is unsure and President Bush says he'll veto it. One First Amendment scholar says the legislation is more about the public's right to know than the reporter's right to protection.
Dennis P. Lockhart, 14th president and CEO of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, will keynote MTSU's 15th annual Economic Outlook Conference. Don Ratajczak will provide trends and forecasts. The conference is targeted to bankers, business owners, managers, community leaders, legislators and students and faculty.
This feature story features interviews with psychology professor/author Dr. Janet Belsky regarding possible reasons for the declining divorce rate in the U.S. and with a twice-divorced single mother.
Say "astronomy," and most think of a telescope. Or, mention the word "observatory," and many may envision a domed building with a telescope. There is, however, an astronomical observatory at MTSU in Murfreesboro that has no telescope, no dome, but boasts .12 columns, each precisely aligned with the Earth and the heavens.
Although textbook costs are reported to have doubled twice the rate of inflation during the past two decades, according to a yearlong student by a federal panel, textbook authors such as Dr. Janet Belsky, psychology professor, say it's wrong to blame inflated textbook prices on academic authors who spend years researching and writing books in exchange for only a few dollars per new textbook sold and no money from used-book sales.
This feature story focuses on the growing popularity of viedeogaming, especially among college students, including the popularity of the newly introduced Nintendo Wii system, which is the most physical gaming product to date. The revenue generated by the videogame industry now rivals that of Hollywood's biggest box-office successes, with no signs of diminishing. Popularity and appeal of videogames, as well as injuries sustained by some gamers, discussed herein.
Results of the spring 2007 MTSU Poll, an opinion survey conducted twice year by Middle Tennessee State University's Office of Communication Research, is now available. The newly released poll findings feature Tennesseans' views on the state's options on lottery scholarship surplus dollars as well as national issues.
How can ethics in media survive when ethics in business, government and religion already have been so diminished in the age of "Enron"? What happens when the standard-bearers of truth no longer tell the truth themselves and instead become part of the problem? Do we believe our journalists? Who's watching the watchdogs?
Americans cite bias and deception as the two top unethical behaviors by mass media that most concern them, according to a poll just released by Middle Tennessee State University's College of Mass Communication. People are concerned about truth, deception, violence, inaccurate reporting, gratuitous sex, and who pulls the news strings, among many other things.
A research team led by geographer Tom Nolan, a member of the geosciences faculty at Middle Tennessee State University, and Michael Birdwell, an Alvin York scholar and member of Tennessee Tech University's history faculty, recently uncovered more than 1,400 artifacts in Chatel-Chehery, France, at the site that is believed to be the precise location where Sgt. York earned the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Media-only press conference to announce the formal confirmation that Sgt. Alvin York's battlefield site had been precisely located by a Tennessee-based research team that returned from France on Nov. 26, 2006. Some of the 1,400-plus artifact recovered by the research team at the historic World War I battlefield, which has been a source of speculation and mystery for nearly nine decades, will be on display at the media-only event.
With the approach of the holiday season, excitement and anticipation typically abound, but so do the holiday blues for many. Two MTSU professors familiar with the seasonal problem say a bit of advance planning can help ease holiday loneliness and sadness in those most likely to experience it.
The twice-annual MTSU Poll is a public-opinion poll out of MTSU's Office of Communication Research, a division of the College of Mass Communication. The attitude of Tennesseans toward immigrants doesn't appear to change simply by using politically correct terminology. There are interesting observations on the use of "illegal" and "undocumented" immigrants. Health care remains a big concern as do growth and traffic.
School districts in Middle Tennessee recently have reported several cases of staph infection among students and school workers. A biology professor at Middle Tennessee State University is involved in research that holds the promise of helping to reduce the number of these infections. The research may also point to new ways to combat other pathogens such as anthrax, SARS and avian flu.
Freshmen college students frequently fall victim to the Freshman 15, that dreaded weight gain that quickly arrives once students join campus life, thanks to decreased physical activity, late-night hours, late-night eating and late-night parties. Aside from zapping students' energy, the lifestyle choices many college students make also influence their academic performance as a result of improper rest and nutrition.
Two MTSU professors who have researched bullying, both the bullied and bullies, report that the age-old problem is widespread and has destructive effects for all involved but it's finally getting a much-needed spotlight. How parents and school personnel respond to bullying situations is crucial. Despite the myths, bulling is not normal behavior, nor should it be tolerated.
Many parents, especially mothers and single parents, grieve when their children leave home for the first time to attend college, but one lifespan-development expert and psychology professors says parents should celebrate and reconnect with life around them, not mourn.
As summer ends and college students return to campus, it is important to take precautionary measures to ensure personal safety. Carl Peaster Jr., a police chief and director of Public Safety at Middle Tennessee State University, offers tips for helping students reduce the risk of becoming a crime statistic on campus.
Hilary Stallings' concern for her soldier brother has turned into a passion as well as a directive to all private citizens on how they can help protect our fighting men and women from serious, even fatal head injuries. It doesn't matter how you feel about the war ... we all "have skin in the game," Stallings says.
A forensic anthropologist at Middle Tennessee State University is one of a select number of scientists to participate in the examination of a 9,300-year-old skeleton known as Kennewick Man that could force historians to rewrite the story of the entire North American continent.
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