Month: March 2015

Explore the latest news, campus updates, student achievements, research highlights, and events from Tennessee State University. Stay informed with stories that matter to the TSU community.

TSU Professor Named 2015 Nashville Athena Award Winner

Each year during Women’s History Month in March, Nashville, honors women leaders who inspire others to achieve excellence in their own professional and personal lives with the Athena Award. This year the award went to a professor from TSU who exemplifies, “leadership, superior performance, commitment to community, and unselfish assistance to women and women’s issues.”

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TSU Gospel Group Called “Best” in the Nation, Wins National College Choir Explosion

Hands-down, the Tennessee State University New Direction Choir is the best college gospel group in the country. The group has proven this time and again, and Saturday, March 7, was no different when they took their final bow at the National College Choir Explosion in Louisville, Kentucky. Competing as one of eight finalists from among several college gospel choirs, the TSU New Direction Choir came out on top winning the coveted title as the Nation’s Best Gospel Choir, with a $15,000 prize.

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