Middle Tennessee State University News

If the federal government gives living relatives of Meriwether Lewis permission to exhume the famed explorer's body, there's a chance there would be nothing there worth studying, a forensic anthropologist from Middle Tennessee State University said today.

An Athens native with a passion for history is among the recipients of the Tennessee Historical Commission's 2009 Certificate of Merit Awards.

Photo by Greg Moses Candi Nunley holds her class T-shirt from Officer Candidate School, which was autographed by the members of her class.

Washington, July 6 : A scientist has come up with an invention that could save million of gallons of fuel every day.

Patriotic music blares over the sound system while dozens of schoolchildren clap to the beats or pretend to "march" with their arms while seated.

Tennessee is attracting national attention for a program to get teaching students off college campuses earlier and into classrooms, where they face a wider range of challenges than their predecessors.

Don and Melissa Wright of Murfreesboro and Barbara Wright of Montgomery, Ala., announce the engagement of their daughter, Amanda Lauren Byers, to William Alan Brown.

Some big changes are on the way to Rutherford County's recycling program. Next week, the county will begin accepting electronic waste.

A Middle Tennessee State University professor hopes a new invention will save Americans up to 120 millions gallons of fuel a day.

Kenneth Strickland , son of Betty Mahone of Joliet, was on MSNBC on "Andrea Mitchell Reports" on June 12.

Gaylon and Beverly O. Davis of Murfreesboro announce the engagement of their daughter, Ashley Elisabeth Davis, to Jason Michael Sheedy of South Hadley, Mass.

Building an electric vehicle at Nissan Motor Co. 's Smyrna plant is expected to bring as many as 1,300 jobs to the area by 2012, not in time to help today's sour labor market but perhaps in time to aid what could still be a lingering recovery.

First classes and majors were cut. Now, tuition is going up at Middle Tennessee State University.

Friends of retiring Murfreesboro City Manager Roger G. Haley will gather to roast him next month, according to a news release from MTSU.

State lawmakers closed up shop for the year, having rewritten Tennessee's guns laws, moved a step closer to passing a constitutional amendment on abortion and cut spending by state government by about 10 percent.

Charlie McAlexander, who called radio play-by-play at South Carolina from 1995-2003, will become an assistant to the dean at the Grady College of Journalism.

State lawmakers worked late into the night to pass next year's budget. The $29.6 billion budget passed 85 to 12 shortly before 12 Midnight Wednesday.

Counterfeit bills are being discovered in Murfreesboro with alarming regularity and the phony bills are tough to spot just by looking.

Two faculty members at Middle Tennessee State University are playing pivotal roles in the quest to solve the mystery surrounding the death of famed explorer Meriwether Lewis.

You received a scholarship towards your studies at Middle Tennessee State University ; what do you plan to do with a physical therapy masters? One day I will open up my own chain of physical therapy facilities to help those who are uninsured or might not have the money to get quality care, and travel with a dance company - Alvin Ailey - to be their ...