MTSU Honors College Student Stories

 

Monika Fouad, who just graduated with her degree in professional physics and biochemistry and will continue her studies at Michigan State University this fall, and Dara Zwemer, a psychology alumni and Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, both earned spots in the five-year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: MTSU student, alum tap campus resources to clinch highly competitive NSF research fellowships

 

Graduating senior video and film production major Brian Maxwell, second from left, receives his 2024 Harold Love Outstanding Community Service Award April 29 at the Tennessee Capitol in Nashville, Tenn. Presenting the award are, from left, state Rep. Harold Love Jr. of Nashville, Tennessee Higher Education Commission Director of HBCU Success Brittany Mosby and THEC Executive Director Steven Gentile. Senior social work major Elliot Certain, second from left, receives his 2024 Harold Love Outstanding Community Service Award April 29 at the Tennessee Capitol in Nashville, Tenn. Presenting the award are, from left, state Rep. Harold Love Jr. of Nashville, Tennessee Higher Education Commission Director of HBCU Success Brittany Mosby and THEC Executive Director Steven Gentile.

Three at MTSU bestowed 2024 Harold Love Outstanding Community Service Awards

 

Middle Tennessee State University senior Ross Sibley, center, of Redlands, Calif., shown with College of Basic and Applied Sciences Dean Greg Van Patten, left, and MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, receives the 2023-24 President’s Award April 22 during the annual Student Government Association and Center for Student Involvement and Leadership Awards Banquet in the Student Union Ballroom in Murfreesboro, Tenn. A biochemistry major, Sibley will be heading to the university of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to pursue his doctorate in chemistry. The student earning this recognition must exemplify superior character and honor and have made achievements that, ideally, all students should strive to meet. (MTSU photo by James Cessna) Middle Tennessee State University senior forensic science major Sydney Robbins, center, of Memphis, Tenn., receives the 2023-24 Provost’s Award April 22 from Provost Mark Byrnes, left, as MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee observes during the Student Government Association and Center for Student Involvement and Leadership Awards Banquet in the Student Union Ballroom on the MTSU campus in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The award is annually given to a student who best demonstrates outstanding academic achievement. (MTSU photo by James Cessna) Middle Tennessee State University senior biology (pre-dentistry) major Sevinch Kamaridinova, center, of Gallatin, Tenn., receives the 2023-24 Robert C. LaLance Jr. Achievement Award from MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, left, and College of Basic and Applied Sciences Dean Greg Van Patten April 22 at the Student Government Association and Center for Student Involvement and Leadership Awards Banquet in the Student Union Ballroom on the MTSU campus in Murfreesboro, Tenn. This award honors a student who has shown remarkable determination, has had to make sacrifices and is contributing to the community while pursuing their degree. (MTSU photo by James Cessna) Middle Tennessee State University senior video and film production major Brian Maxwell, right, of Smyrna, Tenn., receives the 2023-24 Community Service Award from MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee April 22 during the annual Student Government Association and Center for Student Involvement and Leadership Awards, held in the Student Union Ballroom on the MTSU campus in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The award is given to a student who exemplifies servant leadership through their service to the campus and off-campus community. (MTSU photo by James Cessna)

MTSU announces major student award recipients for 2023-24

 

Carlos Aldana Lira in front of a computer display in the Kirksey Old Main building on the MTSU campus.

MTSU Honors student awarded computer science REU for summer research in Seattle

 

Ariel Nicastro

MTSU physics, honors sophomore named 2024 Goldwater Scholar

 

Victoria Grigsby

MTSU’s Grigsby to join 2024 Delta Scholar cohort

 

Jake Salter

MTSU student awarded prestigious Mitacs Research Internship in Canada this summer

 

Middle Tennessee State University junior mechatronics engineering major Samuel Apigian, right, and Engineering Technology lecturer Antonio Saavedra are pictured next to robotics equipment inside a Voorhees Engineering Technology laboratory earlier this semester on the MTSU campus. Apigian is heading to Germany this summer after being awarded the highly competitive DAAD RISE scholarship where he will be interning at Technische Universität Dresden. (MTSU photo by Robin E. Lee)

MTSU mechatronics major awarded prestigious DAAD RISE summer internship in Germany

 

Kacie Leonard

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Spring 2024 URECA Grant recipients

10 Honors students awarded URECA grants for Spring 2024

 

During a student leaders panel session at the Tennessee Campus Civic Summit, Middle Tennessee State University sophomore Victoria Grigsby of Fayetteville, Tenn., shares her views with the audience that included attendees from nine other Tennessee universities Friday, Feb. 23, in the Miller Education Center’s second-floor atrium. She is a political science and German double major and president of MTSU’s American Democracy Project student organization. (MTSU photo by J. Intintoli)  Honors student Hannah Ferreira is named one of the first Andrew Goodman Ambassadors at MTSU.

TN Campus Civic Summit students leave MTSU committed to involvement, making a difference

 

Middle Tennessee State University alumna Rebecca Clippard was recently awarded the exclusive MEXT Research Scholarship to complete a postgraduate degree at a Japanese institution.

MTSU alumna Rebecca Clippard awarded MEXT Scholarship

 

The Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature, or TISL, is a four-day forum in late fall for students to exchange ideas, express their opinions and learn how government works.

MTSU students earn third straight best delegation honor at Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature

 

  

MTSU business students tie for top spot in international software innovation challenge

 

Brian Maxwell

Incarceration altered his life, now MTSU Honors student helps reform local inmates

 

Eli Ward

MTSU Honors student’s thesis explores addiction recovery through Christian lens

 

Halle Brandt

MTSU students take top honors at Tennessee Psychological Association competition

 

Ryan Blazer

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Meet Ryan Blazer, who helps place WNF’s ‘biggest’ headliners

 

A middle school student uses a drill while completing her concrete coaster she made recently using with materials provided by the Middle Tennessee State University School of Concrete and Construction Management during the during the annual Tennessee Girls in STEM Conference at MTSU Saturday, Sept. 30. (MTSU photo by James Cessna)

Rooting for STEM, careers at girls’ hands-on math-science conference at MTSU

 

Honors Alumna Beatriz Dedicatoria

MTSU Honors alumna’s postponed internship leads to ‘magical’ 2023 Cannes Film Festival

 

Benjamin Adams

MTSU alumnus attends ISI academic honors conference in Washington, D.C.

 

Helen Grace Daniel

MTSU Media Arts Productions students spring into action at grand prix event

 

Catheryn Bolick

MTSU graduate awarded Phi Kappa Phi fellowship toward Ph.D.

 

Undergraduate researchers from Middle Tennessee State University smile for a photo while attending the World Congress on Undergraduate Research at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, this spring. Standing, from left, are, Yaseen Ginnab, Leslie Gonzalez; Brooke Busbee; Jamie Burriss, coordinator of MTSU's Undergraduate Research Center; Jesse Scobee; Marzea Akter; Janna Abou-Rahma and Ross Sibley.

MTSU undergrads travel to England for international research conference

 

Janna Abou-Rahma speaking at podium during pre-conference Mayo Clinic Social Determinants of Health Challenge

MTSU sends multiple undergrads, wins Mayo Clinic challenge at national conference

 

Bennie Thompson

Pandemic downsizing leads 54-year-old Navy Veteran to concrete management at MTSU

 

Victoria Grigsby

MTSU freshman to attend Fulbright Institute in Wales this summer

 
 
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3 MTSU students received CLS Spark awards
 		  

 

Ariel Nicastro

 
Physics/Honors freshman selected for prestigious TREND REU

 

 

Cynthia Torres

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