Middle Tennessee State University

Three nontraditional students at Middle Tennessee State University got a boost to their education as recipients of the 2024 June S. Anderson Scholarship. The foundation annually awards full-tuition scholarships to students age 25 and older who are preparing for careers in fields that are nontraditional for women.

Middle Tennessee State University senior Anna Collins, of Pleasant View, was recently awarded a Pioneer Award of $1,000 from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi - the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

Eight Middle Tennessee State University students received the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad this summer.

Middle Tennessee State University sophomore Victoria Grigsby earned a spot as a Delta Scholar in the 2024 Delta Scholars Program.

Middle Tennessee State University sophomore and Honors Buchanan Fellow Ariel Nicastro was recently named as a 2024 Goldwater Scholar. She is one of 10 students from Tennessee institutions to receive the award this year and the only one from MTSU. The Goldwater Scholarship Program, one of the oldest and most prestigious national scholarships in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics in the United States, seeks to identify, encourage, and financially support college sophomores and juniors who show exceptional promise of becoming this Nation's next generation of research leaders in these fields. A physics major and student in the MTSU University Honors College, Nicastro was among more than 430 college students selected from more than 5,000 applicants to receive the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship this year.

Middle Tennessee State University College of Media and Entertainment audio production major Bryce Tall-LaRue was awarded the Gilman Scholarship to travel to Senegal in Summer 2024.

Honors Buchanan Transfer Fellow Brian Maxwell has been named the first Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Scholar recipient at Middle Tennessee State University.

Catheryn Bolick (Middle Tennessee State University, 2019) is a 2023-2024 recipient of a Michael Barla Scholarship. Catheryn Bolick graduated magna cum laude with a perfect 4.0 GPA from Middle Tennessee StateUniversity (MTSU) in May 2023 with bachelor's degrees in biology and clarinet performance, with minors inFrench andchemistry. In 2018, she was one of only twenty students selected for the Buchanan Fellowshipprogram through the MTSU Honors College, culminating in November 2022 with the defense of her originalmolecular biology research thesis. She received several awards throughout her undergraduate career, mostnotably several Outstanding Student of the Year awards from the Biology Department and the HonorsCollege, as well as a 2023 Phi Kappa Phi National Fellowship. Catheryn served in many leadership roles forthe MTSU Circle since her initiation in 2019, including secretary, vice president, and Circle President (2022-2023). She also served as a music theory tutor, vocalist for the Reformed University Fellowship music team,clarinet teacher, swim instructor, and nursery volunteer for her church. She performed clarinet in variousmusical ensembles through the MTSU School of Music and community ensembles, and performed classicalballet with The Dancer's School in Murfreesboro, TN. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Cancer Biologyfrom the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine.

A group of Middle Tennessee State University faculty, under the leadership of chemistry professor Andrienne Friedli, recently launched a last-dollar scholarship program to fund and support undergraduate and graduate biochemistry and chemistry students in need.

Catheryn Bolick of Smyrna, Tennessee, has been awarded an $8,500 fellowship by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Middle Tennessee State University Honors student Matthew Siciliano, a political science major, has received a scholarship for an academic internship at the Washington Center for Fall 2023.

The Ralph and Elizabeth Gwaltney Centennial Scholarship, a centennial scholarship funded by Don and Carolyn Midgett, has been awarded to Hailey Harrison.

The Hanna Romans Witherspoon Scholarship is awarded annually to a junior or senior Honors student at Middle Tennessee State University.

The Windrow Scholarship was established in 2009 by Middle Tennessee State University alumni Vincent and Stacy Windrow.

The Paul W. Martin Sr. Scholarship is named in honor of the father of Paul and Lee Martin, who made the Honors building at Middle Tennessee State University possible. Paul Martin, a member of the Honor College Board of Vistors, presented the awards to the students.

The Ingram-Montgomery Honors College Thesis/Research Scholarship is a research-based scholarship offered by the Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University. Winners of the Ingram-Montgomery Scholarship receive $1,000.

Three Middle Tennessee State University students were recently awarded Academic Achievement Scholarships from the University Honors College.

The Julia Powell Scholarship is funded by one of the members of the Middle Tennessee State University Honors College Board of Visitors. This year's recipient is Fison Bogale.

The Joseph and Teresa Olmstead Scholarship is funded by one of the past members of the Middle Tennessee State University Honors College Board of Visitors and his wife. This year's recipient is Aykut Iri.

The Bart McCash Scholarship, which is named after a former chair of the Middle Tennessee State University History Department, goes to Transfer Fellow Cai Ward.

The June McCash Founders Award Scholarship is named after the first Director of the Middle Tennessee State University Honors Program, June McCash. This year, Ruby Neu has been given this award.

Psychology and sociology double major Hannah Antrican was awarded the Lawrence R. Good Scholarship, which is named after the husband of a former faculty member. The $350 award is funded by Dr. Elaine Good Royal and Matthew Royal. Preference is given to psychology majors and minors who are in good standing with the Honors College.

Two MTSU students were awarded the Hannah/Harris Study Abroad Scholarship this spring. The scholarship is named after the late Dr. Richard Hannah, a former professor of economics, and Dr. Watson Harris, who was an administrator in the Provost Office and a graduate faculty member in the College of Education.

The Michael Martinelli Memorial Scholarship is named in honor of one of our former students. This year's recipient is Cole Jones who is an Honors Transfer Fellow majoring in Management and Leadership with minors in Business Administration and University Honors. He says being at the Honors College changed the trajectory of his life, and he is now studying to be a licensed marriage and family therapist.

The Philip and Marilyn Mathis Scholarship, named for a former Dean of the MTSU Honors College, was recently awarded to Yaseen Ginnab.

Nine Middle Tennessee State University students received the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship this year. The U.S. Department of State's Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship is a grant program that enables students of limited financial means to study or intern abroad.

Earning a degree just got a little easier for four nontraditional Middle Tennessee State University students who recently were named recipients of the 2023 June S. Anderson Scholarship. Funded through the June S. Anderson Foundation at MTSU, the scholarship recipients are given full tuition for a year.

MTSU doctoral student Yolunda Nabors was recently named the university's first Tennessee Doctoral Scholar. Now in her final year of the Ph.D. in Economics Program, the award covers Nabors' tuition and provides her with a $20,000 stipend plus additional funds for research and professional development. The Tennessee Higher Education Commision designed the Tennessee Doctoral Scholar program to "increase the number of minority students who earn a Ph.D. in Tennessee and to encourage these graduates to seek faculty positions by providing financial assistance for up to three years of graduate study," according to the program's website.