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Gone Fishin’
MTSU’s outdoor pursuits program landed a $70,000 grant from the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency to pilot a fishing program, the first university outdoor recreation program to do so. “We now offer complimentary fishing pole and tackle rentals, additional gear rentals at a discount, free fishing excursions, and free fishing clinics,” said Blake Osborn, MTSU’s outdoor recreation coordinator.
mtsunews.com/outdoor-pursuits-70kpilot-fishing-program
Follow the Fungi
MTSU Biology Professor Sarah Bergemann, along with University of California–Berkeley researchers, sequenced the DNA of fungi specimens collected in Tahiti and concluded that there probably are new species of fungi on the island that had never been recorded in any scientific data bank. The study was published in March 2022 in the Journal of Biogeography.
mtsunews.com/bergemann-researchmay2022
High Tech Ag
The U.S. Department of Agriculture provided Ying Jin, MTSU associate professor of Psychology, a $450,000 grant to develop an institute to bring high school agriculture teachers together for professional development. Jin is the director of C-MEASURE at MTSU, which promotes and facilitates research activities for MTSU faculty, staff, and graduate students.
mtsunews.com/usda-ag-educationgrant-2022
Stellar Student Success
The American Association of State Colleges and Universities selected MTSU among 19 member institutions to execute a comprehensive multiyear initiative designed to help institutions close equity gaps for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and low-income students. The AASCU is among six organizations selected by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to participate in the effort.
mtsunews.com/aascu-studentsuccess-equity-intensive-2022
Know Your Rights
MTSU’s Free Speech Center and the First Amendment Watch at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute partnered to produce a series of videos educating the public on citizens’ First Amendment rights. The first video focuses on the rights of those who wish to photograph or shoot video of police officers in public places.
mtsunews.com/mtsu-nyu-team-forhelpful-first-amendment-video-series
Righting a Wrong
Sponsored in part by the Political Economy Research Institute at MTSU, the first Dr. Harold A. Black Academic Conference took place in Chattanooga in September 2022. A paper that Black co-authored in 1978 was one of the first to quantify racial bias in lending decisions.
