[392] MTSU Touts Research During Scholars Week April 4-8

Release date: April 4, 2011

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MTSU Touts Research During Scholars Week April 4-8

(MURFREESBORO) — MTSU’s growing research initiatives will be touted during the annual Scholars Week, which will be held today through Friday, April 8, across campus. All events are free and open to the public and campus community.
Oral and multimedia presentations, posters, performances, a kickoff luncheon, demonstrations and special speakers will lead to the Universitywide Exposition from 12:40 until 2:45 p.m. Friday on the track level of Murphy Center.
Each of MTSU’s colleges will have its own Scholars Day of events during the week. The Jennings A. Jones College of Business will celebrate on April 4, while the Colleges of Basic and Applied Sciences and Behavioral and Health Sciences will be the focus on April 5. The College of Liberal Arts Scholars Day is April 6, and the Colleges of Mass Communication and Education will share April 7 as Scholars Day.
“Scholars Week is a celebration of excellence at MTSU and is designed to highlight the core values of quality research by our students and faculty,” said Dr. Brad Bartel, provost and executive chair of the 15-member Scholars Week Committee. “It is a signature event for our institution.”
Author and blogger Meghan McCain, daughter of U.S. Sen. John McCain and his wife, Cindy, will speak during the College of Liberal Arts Day on Wednesday, April 6.
“A Conversation with Meghan McCain” will start at 7 p.m. in Room 241 of the Ned McWherter Learning Resources Center. A book signing will follow her talk.
Examples of the many planned Scholars Week activities include:
• thematic project presentations from interior-design classes and theatre-scene design classes;
• presentations from Concrete Industry Management Program students being mentored on industry and academic partnerships and from graduate student Lauren Ingram and human-sciences faculty mentor Dr. Sandra Poirier on undergraduates’ work with students in an after-school program at Patterson Community Center in Murfreesboro;
• a report on the “Effect of Using Coping Skills and Exercise on Changes in Stress and Energy Among Police Officers” from Chris Dickson, a graduate student in the Department of Health and Human Performance, psychology professor Dr. Thomas Brinthaupt and HHP professor Dr. Mark Anshel;
• showcases of the Department of Engineering Technology’s student experimental vehicles on April 5 outside the Keathley University Center and on April 8 at Murphy Center, led by ET grad student Bahir Alkadhimi and Dr. Saeed Foroudastan, mentor and CBAS associate dean; and
• a project by economics and finance major Evan Totty and faculty mentor Dr. Mark Owens, “Salary Caps and Competitive Balance in Professional Sports,” which looks at the issue in light of U.S. sports and addresses whether Major League Baseball should adopt a salary cap, too.
For a complete schedule of Scholars Week events, visit http://bit.ly/MTScholarsWeek11.

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In Brief

MTSU’s growing research initiatives will be touted during the annual Scholars Week, which will be held today through Friday, April 8, across campus. All events are free and open to the public and campus community.
Oral and multimedia presentations, posters, performances, a kickoff luncheon, demonstrations and special speakers will lead to the Universitywide Exposition from 12:40 until 2:45 p.m. Friday on the track level of Murphy Center.


Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree — the only one in Tennessee — as a model program. MTSU recently unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.

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