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Superior Students
A recent ASCAP/MTSU Songwriter Showcase highlighted students Harmony Redford, Emily O’Neal, Jaelee Roberts, Sofia Lynch, and Anna Wharton performing. ASCAP Vice President Mike Sistad stopped by to watch the showcase.
Rising senior Michai Mosby, who is studying Advertising and Public Relations, was reelected as Student Government Association president for 2024–25 after becoming one of the youngest SGA presidents ever elected to the MTSU post.
Kinsey McBride won the June Anderson Center Undergraduate Student of the Year award. She produces a podcast with Shan Foster, executive director of AMEND Together and vice president of external affairs for YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee.
Hayden “Gracie” Sizemore, an Interdisciplinary Media alumna who minored in Film Studies, was recognized as a Future Trailblazer at the 2023 National Women’s History Month awards. Sizemore, vice president of Women in Film and film manager for Student Programming and Raider Entertainment, worked to improve weekly screenings and the student film festival.
In February 2024, M.F.A. student Anderson Hall completed a final project in immersive audio in collaboration with French company L-Acoustics and Clair Global. L-Acoustics flew in their technician to be a part of the experience, and Clair Global donated equipment. Students in RIM 4335 Advanced Sound Reinforcement and RIM 4333 Sound System Design and Optimization, also participated. Büzie, a rising star on MTSU’s student label, Match Records, headlined the concert after Carter Elliott’s opening act.
MTSU’s student-run record label, Match Records, launched the Tiny Dorm Concert series starting in fall 2022 and recorded several episodes in Deere Hall. Artists featured have included Legendary Nedge, Austin Daniel, Treat Coastal, Aslin, and Chaz Crawford. The Give Me a Beat living-learning community was involved in the production along with a student production crew.
Rising sophomores Marcus Rosario, a Journalism major, and Sidelines staffer Hannah Ferreira, a double major in Psychology and Political Science, were named as inaugural Andrew Goodman Foundation ambassadors for MTSU. The foundation supports youth leadership development, voting accessibility, and social justice initiatives.
