Sept. 21, 2010
THIS WEEK AT MTSU
→NPR’s Nina Totenberg will deliver a lecture in MTSU’s Tucker Theatre tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 22, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Ms. Totenberg will remain until 6:30 p.m. to meet and greet.
MEDIA WELCOME.
→MTSU will receive TBR’s Academic Excellence Award, Thursday, Sept. 23, at 1:30 p.m., in Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building. The award will recognize the university’s Master’s of Science in Professional Science, the only program of its kind at a public university in Tennessee. The MSPS combines 15 hours of master’s-level business courses with 21 hours of concentration in biotechnology, biostatics or health care informatics. Each student must also complete a 250-hour internship. This program has been held up by the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C. as a model for other programs. Nearly all graduates of this program have found employment within their fields.
MEDIA WELCOME. (Come at noon to set up.)
→The Economic Outlook Conference, Friday, Sept. 24, will be held at the Murfreesboro Embassy Suites, with the welcome at 8:45 a.m. Thomas Skains, COB of Piedmont Natural Gas, will speak at 9 a.m. At 10:30 a.m., MTSU’s Dr. David Penn will discuss the mid-state/regional economic condition; and at noon, Dr. Don Ratajczak, nationally known economist and forecaster, will present his views on the economy. Also at noon, Stephen Smith, COB of Haury & Smith Contractors, Inc., and MTSU supporter, will receive the Jennings A. Jones Champion of Free Enterprise Award.
MEDIA WELCOMED.
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