For my homecoming editorial, I decided to write about something with which our alumni can help the University. For upcoming graduations, we need more engaging, better speakers.I realize we all can’t have Stephen Colbert come give a commencement speech, but we need to get someone more engaging than Dolores Gresham, […]

A new regime begins Thursday night in Cookeville as Coach Sytia Messer will patrol the sidelines for the first time as head coach of Tech’s women’s basketball team. “It’s time to get back to the tradition and heart we have had here,” Messer said. “Tech is a diamond in the […]

In a controversial rugby match on Saturday, Tech fell to Lee University 19-10, but only after a tough fight to the end.Winger, Danny Hickman, and Fullback, Gerome Govero scored for Tech. After Hickman scored a try, Govero scored the extra point, as well as a penalty kick field goal. Junior, […]

A quarter million dollar gift to the Tennessee Tech University Athletics Association has put some muscle behind the proposed Strength and Conditioning center, moving the facility into the design stage with plans to begin construction in early 2010.The anonymous donation of $250,000 is the largest single gift made to the […]

The Appalachian Center for Craft will host its annual 2009 Bacchanal: A Celebration of Art, Food and Wine on Sunday, Oct. 25. The event will be hosted by Spankies Restaurant, located just off campus at 203 E. 9th St., from 1-5 pm. The live auction of art and fine craft […]

Tech’s Chorale and Concert Choir will perform a free concert on Oct. 27 at the Bryan Fine Arts building. “Our concert is a really big deal,” Sarah Dingwall, historian for the American Chorale Directors Association said. “This involves over 125 students on this campus.” Dingwall and the Tech choirs are […]

J.J. Oakley Campus Health Services reports few cases of the H1N1 influenza virus at Tech as they await the vaccine that could be available late this month.Although the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed Tennessee as experiencing a “widespread” outbreak of H1N1, Tech continues to have a small […]

Fall 2009 Senior SaluteOctober 21, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.October 22, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.Tech Pride Room, RUC – The University Bookstore will be there with your cap and gown (at no charge) and Balfour will be available to help you order your graduation invitations and class ring. – […]

Tech’s Millard Oakley STEM Center and NASA are inviting students from kindergarten to college to participate in the Soaring Eagle Question Contest. Winners will be invited to ask International Space Station astronauts their questions during the NASA Inflight Education Downlink on Wednesday, Nov. 18.Contestants should submit unique questions related to […]

Capital Quad residence halls were placed on lock down Wednesday following a report of an armed robbery in Cooper/Dunn Residence Hall.At approximately 5 a.m., TTU Police received a report of an armed robbery involving what was believed to be a gun in Cooper/Dunn Residence Hall. But the investigation revealed no […]