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

Middle Tennessee State University political science major Victoria Grigsby has received one of the most competitive overseas fellowships in the country - the Fulbright Summer Institute in Wales in the United Kingdom.

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.

Middle Tennessee State University honors student Elizabeth Kowalczyk was recently named as a 2023 Goldwater Scholar. She is one of only eight students from Tennessee institutions to receive the award this year and the only one from MTSU.

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.

Each year, the Middle Tennessee State University Honors College awards Outstanding Student Awards to high-achieving Honors students who set themselves apart from their peers through academic achievement and extra-curricular activities both on and off campus.

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.

Middle Tennessee State University is congratulating the 5,430-plus students who appear on the dean's list for the spring 2023 semester. To qualify for this distinction, an undergraduate student must maintain a current semester grade-point average of 3.5 or above and earn at least 12 semester hours. The complete list of honorees, compiled by the MTSU Registrar's Office and alphabetized by the students' surnames and home counties, also is available as a searchable PDF in this story at MTSUNews.com, the university's news site: https://mtsunews.com/deans-list-spring2023/.

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.

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 John and Linda Vile Award, sponsored by the current Middle Tennessee State University Honors College Dean and his wife, goes to Laney Denton.

The Middle Tennessee State University Honors College recognized dozens of students who were initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi during a special ceremony late in the spring 2023 semester. Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.

MTSU recently sent 16 undergraduates to participate in the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research and one student, Janna Abou-Rahma, was part of the team that won a highly competitive challenge putting her in the top 1% of hundreds of applicants. More commonly known as NCUR, the annual conference took place this April at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

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.

Three MTSU students were among 80 undergraduate and graduate students nationwide selected for the U.S. Department of State's Critical Language Scholarship program Spark Award for Summer 2023.

This year, five MTSU graduates were accepted into the Japan Exchange and Teaching, or JET, Program. These individuals will work in schools, boards of education, and government offices throughout Japan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MTSU sophomore Michai Mosby will serve as the university's next Student Government Association president - one of the youngest SGA presidents ever elected on the Blue Raider campus.

Middle Tennessee State University's Kayla Jenkins, a student in the Public History Master's Program, was recently named to the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge's 2023 Student Voting Honor Roll.

MTSU recently sent 16 undergraduates to participate in the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research and one student, Janna Abou-Rahma, was part of the team that won a highly competitive challenge putting her in the top 1% of hundreds of applicants. More commonly known as NCUR, the annual conference took place this April at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

After graduate student Abigail Kwarteng capped off her MTSU experience with a walk across the Murphy Center stage this past weekend, she set her sights on her next dream - to represent her native Ghana in high jump in next year's Summer Olympics Games in Paris.

The MTSU community came together last fall to host the "The Judds: Love is Alive - The Final Concert" featuring Wynonna Judd, and now the Blue Raider community can watch the finished product of their hard work and collaboration with the release of the concert TV special at 7 p.m. Central on Saturday, April 29, on CMT. The Nov. 3 live made-for-TV concert event at MTSU's historic Murphy Center involved faculty, alumni and over 50 student workers from the College of Media and Entertainment as well as a group of 45 choral students from the College of Liberal Arts who accompanied Wynonna for the concert finale. Media and entertainment students worked on everything from production and preparation to media coverage and performance for the live red-carpet broadcast, concert and CMT TV special.

Eleven MTSU undergraduates will head out both close to home, across the country and beyond this summer after qualifying for prestigious National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates, or REU, grant placements. The government-funded REU Sites program provides research opportunities for undergraduate students, according to the National Science Foundation website. Each site hosts about 10 students, who work on a specific research project with host-university faculty and other researchers for about six to 10 weeks. Funds cover stipends for the students' work and often will pay for students' travel and housing as well.

For the first time in school history, the Middle Tennessee State University equestrian team took home the Western National Championship trophy at the 2023 Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association National Championship. Held earlier in May at Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky, five Blue Raider riders qualified as a western team and four riders qualified individually through placing top four at semifinals earlier in the spring. In a down-to-the-wire finish, MTSU edged St. Andrews University and Midway College by one point after MTSU's Jordan Martin placed second in Team Open Horsemanship, the last team class of the day. For the entire story, go to https://mtsunews.com/equestrian-team-national-title-2023/.

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.