Early last year, as it was dawning on Americans that their lives were about to change in some drastic but unknowable way, MTSU’s Katherine Foss got a phone call from The New York Times.

Dr. Stephanie Dean, assistant professor in the Department of Media Arts, conducted an innovative experiment in gender and virtual reality in December in the Bragg Media and Entertainment Building.

MTSU’s Center for Popular Music is the recipient of another national grant from the Grammy Foundation, this time to digitize an extensive, “historically and culturally significant” live bluegrass audio collection from Indiana music lover Marvin Hedrick. 

Masters in Media and Communication students Alejandro Botia and Laura Hudgins presented papers at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Midwinter Conference in February.

The latest MTSU Poll conducted statewide focuses on presidential candidates and views on abortion and gay marriage. 

The Center for Popular Music announced on March 18 the launch of its American Vernacular Music Manuscripts (AVMM) website.

MTSU Poll director Ken Blake has completed a new poll on Insure Tennessee, Gov. Bill Haslam’s new health care proposal.

Journalism Professor Jane Marcellus has co-authored a book exploring the hit TV show Mad Men. The book is “Mad Men and Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance, and Otherness.”

EMC’s Bob Pondillo, Ph.D., is a published author yet again. “American Media and Social Institutions,” published by Cognella Academic Publishing, is designed for use in introductory mass media and American culture classes.