Middle Tennessee State University

Middle Tennessee State University Honors student Izzy Jacober has been accepted into the highly competitive NSF-funded SIREN (Summer Intensive Research Experience in Neuroscience) Research Experience for Undergraduate program at the University of Michigan.

Middle Tennessee State University student Nyah Bentley has been selected for a competitive Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. She is one of several MTSU students earning a REU placement for summer 2025.

Middle Tennessee State University Honors student Joey Buckingham has been selected for a competitive Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at the University of Arkansas for summer 2025.

Middle Tennessee State University graduate Brandon Toungett has been selected for a prestigious position in the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, becoming the first MTSU student ever appointed as a Coordinator for International Relations.

Michael Marking, a physics and mathematics double major at Middle Tennessee State University, has been selected for a prestigious Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program at the University of Central Florida for summer 2025. He is one of seven MTSU students to earn a competitive REU placement this year.

Cameron Morelli, a physics and mathematics double major at Middle Tennessee State University, has been selected to participate in a prestigious Research Experiences for Undergraduates program in physics at the University of Arkansas during summer 2025.

Middle Tennessee State University Honors College senior John Tate has been accepted into the prestigious Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, a significant step toward his dream of working in Japanese television. Tate, a Video and Film Production major with a concentration in Live Production, graduates this semester and will head to Japan in August to serve as an Assistant Language Teacher.

It was a summer opportunity of a lifetime for Middle Tennessee State University video and film production student Tobin Smith as he spent nearly a month in Paris, France, working production for NBC Sports during the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.

Middle Tennessee State University Honors College student Olivia Vickers, a Chemistry major, has been selected for a highly competitive Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at the University of Minnesota, where she will spend the summer conducting full-time, hands-on research in polymer chemistry.

Middle Tennessee State University's annual Invention Convention again welcomed over 1,000 local students to campus to showcase their gamut of creations that ranged from making others' lives easier, solving a community problem, providing a new service or even designing a new game.

"Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression" again received high honors from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. The student-run magazine featuring submitted work such as poetry, art, photos, video, nonfiction, audio, and more, was recently awarded its 18th gold medalist certificate from the CSPA and was also recognized with All-Columbian Honors for the verbal category of the review process.

Middle Tennessee State University's English Ph.D. program aims to provide a graduate experience with tight-knit faculty, multiple hands-on training opportunities and a supportive environment. Kylie Petrovich, a current Ph.D. candidate in the program, recently began her dissertation and shared about her decision to pursue her degree within the university's Department of English.

A Middle Tennessee State University art and design professor landed one of the university's internal grants to create his upcoming solo exhibition that explores the fickle nature of memory and how it informs the present through sculpture. Associate professor and artist Mark Mcleod brought on student Caroline Yates, a junior majoring in art history, to help on the major project, and Yates, who aspires to be a museum or gallery curator, said the opportunity has been an invaluable experience.

Sixty-seven members of Middle Tennessee State University's Band of Blue stood instruments poised and bodies packed into the College of Media and Entertainment's Studio No. 1 for a project two decades in the making - an updated recording of MTSU's fight song. In addition to a collaboration between MTSU faculty, audio production graduate students Mitchell Breitmann, Kelly Grenvik and Kolyo Vanchev worked on the studios' final preparations from measuring the exact distance between the multiple microphones and considering the effect of rising air temperature to make sure the recording would be pitch perfect.