The University Police and Telecommunications Office relocated Tuesday to 90 W. 8th St., what was once home to the old infirmary. Tech Police and Telecommunications staff members spent the day transporting equipment to the new location. “We are more centrally located now,” Gay Shepherd, chief of police, said, “which is […]

As the economy has slowed, service organizations that rely on grant funding and in-kind donations have begun to reach out for community support. Dismas House of the Upper Cumberland in Cookeville is no exception. “Our budget was cut $75,000 dollars this year,” Daisy Dodd of Dismas House of the Upper […]

While I’m wonderfully excited about graduation, I’m also terribly sad to leave the place that harbors so many great memories. Daniel, thanks for introducing me to all this stuff I now love to do. Chris, thanks for all the times you just sat and listened. Alli and Sara, thank you […]

It’s kind of hard to believe that graduation is this close. It’s been a long, winding road to get here, and I definitely couldn’t have done it alone. I’ll miss this place, but I’m eager to move on to new things.First of all, I want to thank everybody in the […]

A Tech civil engineering student was recently awarded The Samuel Fletcher Tapman ASCE Student Chapter Scholarship. Lindsay Smith, a senior from Mount Juliet, received the $3,000 scholarship from the American Society of Civil Engineers based on activities within the ASCE, academic accomplishments and an essay in which she described her […]

Following the letter to the editor regarding my previous article about the H1N1 vaccine, I feel I should elaborate my position a bit further.The first point of my article: educate yourself. Know what is going into your body. All the information about the vaccine is on the national Centers for […]

The Indian Association of Cookeville will host a dance concert evening from 5 to 7 p.m., Nov. 14, at Derry Berry Auditorium. Kuchipudi and Bharathanatyam Indian classical dances will be performed.According to the Kuchipudi Academy of Dance, Kuchipudi “is a classical dance form that originated in the village of Kuchipudi, […]

Tech will host NASA’s Inflight Education Downlink for the STS-129 space shuttle mission. The downlink, scheduled for 10:53 next Sunday, will allow the Soaring Eagle Question Contest winners to ask International Space Station astronauts their winning questions. Those invited to attend will view it in the Nursing and Health Services […]

The foreign language department at Tech is offering a class in the spring that will travel to Morocco. The class, taught by Debbie Barnard, will take the trip over spring break. The French 4910 class will focus on Francophone literature and will have at least two learning sessions to focus […]