Dr. Michael Orok has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools. The committee studies and reviews issues and problems facing graduate education particularly those in the South. Orok, dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research at TSU, will serve for three years on the 12-member committee…
The national awards among faculty competing in the Broadcast Education Association have been released and the Chair of the Department of Communications at Tennessee State University, Dr. Terry Likes, has won the “Best of Competition” award in the Faculty Audio Competition category.
The Nashville Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has announced Tennessee State University’s Dr. Sandria Godwin as the recipient of the 2013 Outstanding Dietitian of the Year award. According to the award, the Outstanding Dietitian of the Year award is meant to recognize a “promoter of optimal health and nutrition in the community [who] demonstrate[s] leadership in the association or in a place of employment.”
Dr. Jewell Winn, special assistant to the Vice President for International Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer at TSU, has been elected president of Women in Higher Education in Tennessee. Winn, also assistant professor of Educational Administration with more than 30 years experience in higher education, was elected recently to head the statewide, three-decade-old professional women’s organization…
A Tennessee State University expert on transportation equity has received a grant worth more than $123,000 from the Tennessee Department of Transportation to conduct public involvement outreach efforts for the state. The goal is to identify innovative techniques that make it easier for citizens to participate in transportation decision-making…
Tennessee State University, Division of Student Affairs has earned the Commitment Award in the annual Excellence in Tennessee recognition program administered by the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence. TSU is one of 18 organizations to receive the Commitment Award that are presented to organizations that are beginning to demonstrate commitment to, and implementation of, performance improvement principles…
A music professor from Tennessee State University is one of the latest contributors to one of the largest reference works geared toward music and musicians. Chip Henderson, an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Music, contributed to The Grove Dictionary of American Music, the principal research source for generations of musicians…
More than a dozen students associated with the environmental engineering program at Tennessee State University made a dramatic showing at the annual Tennessee American Water Resources Association conference including three first-place and grand-prize award winners…
Tennessee State University’s associate vice president for Student Affairs has been elected to a leadership position with the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, a non-profit organization with members across the country to advance learning. Dr. A. Dexter Samuels will serve for three years on the Executive Committee for the Council on Student Affairs..
Travellers Rest, a plantation and now a museum located at Harding Place and Interstate 65, saw some of the fiercest fighting during the two-day Battle of Nashville, where approximately 6,000 Confederate soldiers were killed, captured or considered missing in action. Today, students from TSU’s PAC House productions are bringing that history back to life with the student-produced documentary, “Voices of War”…
