Tennessee Tech’s library website may be changing its layout based on results of a website usability study given by a group from the Volpe library. The library’s web manager, April Crockett, said the changes will be for the better and will help people find what they’re looking for on the […]

Tennessee Tech University’s tuba and euphonium students kicked the 40th annual Octubafest into high gear last month. With a total of 21 concerts, there is a variety of performances, said Tech tuba professor R. Winston Morris. Some were solo concerts while others featured tuba and euphonium quartets and quintets. The […]

Internationally recognized Third Coast Percussion entertained its audience in Tennessee Tech’s Wattenbarger Auditorium Thursday evening, Oct. 22. Referred to by The New York Times as “hard-grooving” musicians and by The New Yorker as “vibrant” and “superb,” Third Coast Percussion performed eight contemporary percussion pieces during the concert, one of which […]

The seventh annual Festival of Voices had a record-breaking number of student participation at the Sept. 25 event held in the Bryan Fine Arts Building’s Wattenbarger Auditorium. Craig Zamer, professor and director of choral activities, said more than 430 high school and college students participated in the vocal workshops and […]

The Appalachian Center for Craft will host a Holiday Festival this season Nov. 29 through Dec. 1 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The festival will have handcrafted holiday gifts and pictures with Santa.  Friends of the Appalachian Center for Craft, a nonprofit organization, have sponsored mini workshops for the […]

Tech’s community had a taste of what life is like with a visually impaired disability last week at “A New Perspective,” a residential life program created by the new Able Bodies Community club to raise awareness about visually disabilities. Participants began the night by being blindfolded. Next, they were handed […]

Consumer advocate and environmental activist Erin Brockovich will visit Tennessee Tech to speak about motivation and personal empowerment Oct. 29 in Derryberry Hall Auditorium at 7 p.m. The Commission on the Status of Women proposed Brockovich to be their speaker for this semester. The Commission’s chairwoman Julia Baker said Brockovich […]

The Child Development Lab and daycare will be moving out of Matthews-Daniel Hall to its new location in Southwest Hall, formally the Regional Health Building. In past years, Matthews-Daniel Hall has had issues with the amount of space available for children. Angela Smith, the Child Development Lab director, said there […]

The Appalachian Center for Craft, located in Smithville, will be hosting its annual Bowlathon on Saturday, September 21 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The pottery bowls made at this event will be auctioned off at the Cooking on the Square on October 25 to benefit Putnam County’s Habitat for […]