Author: Isaac Wright

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“Gaming for Prevention” smashes stigmas

A student wears beer googles, last Tuesday at "Gaming for Prevention." The goggle simulate drunkeness The Tech Counseling Center partnered with the TTU Smash Bros. Club and eSports Club for an alcohol awareness and suicide prevention event. The Gaming for Prevention event highlighted combating stigma surrounding mental illness, information on […]

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Nine-year-old reporter challenges status quo

A 9-year-old girl in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, is a reporter who runs her own newspaper called the Orange Street News. Hilde Kate Lysiak received a tip about a murder in her town, confirmed it with police then did some journalism and investigation. She interviewed neighbors and gathered other information before publishing […]

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Alumnus stealth bomber contributor to speak at commencement

A Tech alumnus whom helped create the modern stealth bomber and researched technology to keep airplanes and cars from crashing is this semester’s commencement ceremony speaker.Allen Atkins is speaking at commencement Dec. 18 in the Hooper Eblen Center. While at Tech, Atkins served and provided leadership on the Industrial Advisory […]

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Tech offers state’s first agritourism concentration

Next semester, classes will be offered for a new concentration as part of the bachelor’s degree in agriculture.Tech is the first university in Tennessee to offer a degree concentration in agritourism, the combination of agriculture and tourism, the state’s top two income-producing industries. The concentration will partially merge agriculture with […]

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Commercial unleashed

The commercial that the marketing department has been working on as part of the new marketing campaign is complete, airing on cable channels and available on YouTube.The storyboards, planning and creation of the commercial was an in-house project by the design department creative team who partnered with James Mabery, a […]