Imagine yourself visiting exotic locations aboard a world-class scientific research ship, exploring the ocean depths via remote video cameras. Sunken ships, deep-sea creatures and possibly even sunken treasure await.

MTSU professors and students will be recognized at the seventh annual multi-media art and film festival, Artlightenment, which will showcase dozens of visual artists, painters, sculptors and filmmakers on Nov. 7, 12, 13 and 14 at The Celebrity Centre in Nashville.

MTSU’s College of Media and Entertainment is joining with MusicRowSearch, a music-industry executive recruitment firm, to host a Sept. 24 event to help inform and connect music-industry professionals.

The College of Mass Communication is now the College of Media and Entertainment, and a T-shirt party on Aug. 26 certainly helped spread the word.

Dennis Oneal, Ph.D., was recently recognized for his outstanding service in the broadcast industry at the 67th Tennessee Association of Broadcasters (TAB) awards in Murfreesboro.

Students and faculty from the School of Journalism, Department of Electronic Media Communication and WMOT Radio are still celebrating after attending the Tennessee Associated Press College Awards banquet in Nashville in March.

Top students past and present were the focus of MTSU’s College of Mass Communication April 24 awards ceremony as leaders added three prominent alumni to the college’s “Wall of Fame” and presented student scholarships and awards for this academic year.

What do Jerry Lee Lewis and one of the leading civil-rights organizations in the South have in common?

Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff will tackle the subject of social media’s pervasiveness in our culture on Monday, April 6, at 7 p.m.

Award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson will discuss governmental intimidation of journalists, network news’ increasing reliance on pop-culture “reporting” over investigative news and more when she visits MTSU Tuesday, April 7.

MTSU Mass Communication students and alumni were well represented on both sides of the camera during the Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Midsouth Regional Emmy® Awards on Jan. 31 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

MTSU professor Clare Bratten peeked behind the prison bars of the Netflix series “Orange is the New Black” during her Feb. 26 lecture in Room 100 of the James Union Building.