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Author: Bailey Phonsnasinh

  • Student Success Story: Austin Sanders and Pine Street Garden

    Student Success Story: Austin Sanders and Pine Street Garden

    Rural Reimagined recognizes Austin Sanders, an Agriculture and Horticulture major, for his work with Teens Need Leaders and the Pine Street Garden. Austin interns for the SeedFork of the Highlands, a nonprofit local foods initiative corporation. When at the garden, he shares project ideas and educates middle and high school students about the importance of their work, when to harvest, how to maintain the harvest, and beneficial practices of gardening. Austin is a student in Dr. Douglas Airhart’s Special Topics Class “Community Gardening Training and Development” which aligns with his work and Rural Reimagined’s initiatives. On the garden, Austin states, “I think it helps connect the community more, definitely, and it helps kind of ground and connect gardening with life and everything.” Wings up, Austin! If you are a student or faculty incorporating rural into your work, contact Kinsey Potter at sw-kbpotter@tntech.edu.

  • Aviation Society Meeting

    Have you ever wonder how you can make additional money outside of working? Well we have a meeting just for that on Thursday at 6:oo pm. We have a speaker Jean Phillipe-aux talking about his business for investment that can give additional funds.  If your interested here is our team link https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3a57ab66b16c7041369aa6c99ff4ba90c3%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=4c670bc7-8eb6-4be9-992c-70988d44ca8f&tenantId=66fecaf8-3dc0-4d2c-b8b8-eff0ddea46f0

     

  • Water Professionals & Engineers Without Borders (EWB) meet this Thursday!!!

    Water Professionals and Engineers Without Borders (EWB) will be having their fifth joint meeting of the semester on this Thursday, November 5th, on Zoom from 11:00 – 11:45 am. We will be hosting our meetings on Zoom for the remainder of the semester.

    At this meeting our speaker will be Natalie Burger, PhD, Environmental Program Manager for TDOT’s Environmental Mitigation Office.

    As always, all majors are welcome. Zoom link is below:

    https://tntech.zoom.us/j/84555789997

  • Water Professionals & Engineers Without Borders (EWB) meet this Thursday!!!

    Water Professionals and Engineers Without Borders (EWB) will be having their fifth joint meeting of the semester on this Thursday, November 5th, on Zoom from 11:00 – 11:45 am. We will be hosting our meetings on Zoom for the remainder of the semester.

    At this meeting our speaker will be Natalie Burger, PhD, Environmental Program Manager for TDOT’s Environmental Mitigation Office.

    As always, all majors are welcome. Zoom link is below:

    https://tntech.zoom.us/j/84555789997

  • Gold Career Workshop on Thurs., Nov. 5: Making a Great Impression at a Job Fair

    Gold Career Workshop on Thurs., Nov. 5: Making a Great Impression at a Job Fair

    Join the Center for Career Development on Thursday, Nov. 5, beginning at 11:00 a.m. in Roaden University Center Multipurpose Room (2nd floor) for this Gold Career Readiness Workshop! You only have one chance to make a great first impression – do not miss the opportunity to learn how to sell yourself at the upcoming job fair!

    This event is open to all students in all majors and counts towards the Gold Career Readiness Certificate for freshman and sophomore students. Bring your Eagle Card for a quick sign-in.

    https://tntech.joinhandshake.com/events/543958/share_preview

    To join virtually, access the VIRTUAL: Gold Career Readiness Workshop on Nov. 5: Making a Great Impression at a Job Fair at the link below and join via TEAMS. Please have the TEAMS app loaded, prior to your accessing the virtual workshop.

    https://tntech.joinhandshake.com/events/573459/share_preview

    Career Readiness Workshops are hosted by the Center for Career Development.
    career@tntech.edu
    931-372-3232

  • Congratulations to those who earned externally funded awards in October

    Oct. externally sponsored award winners:

      • Ali Alouani (PI): TVA

     

      • Melinda Anderson (PI): TN Dept. of Human Services via TN State Univ.

     

      • Julie Baker (PI): TN Dept. of Ed.

     

      • Dennis Duncan (PI): TN Dept. of Ed.

     

      • Ismail Fidan (PI): NSF via Somerset Community College

     

      • Sheikh Ghafoor (PI): (three awards) ORNL, NSF, NASA via The Univ. of North Carolina Chapel Hill

     

      • Martha Howard (PI), Amy Callender, Kim Correll: TN Dept. of Ed.

     

      • Carla Hurt (PI), Steve Hayslette, Shawn Krosnick, Christopher Wheeler: Private Funder

     

      • Kevin Liska (PI): National Highway Traffic Safety Administration via TN Highway Safety Office

     

      • Kevin Liska (PI), Julie Brewer, Joe Powell: National Safety Council

     

      • Jennifer Meadows (PI): Battelle Memorial Institute

     

      • Andy Pardue (PI): S. Air Force Research Lab via DZYNE Technologies Inc.

     

      • Akond Rahman (PI): NSF

     

      • Jeff Schaeffer (PI): USFWS

     

      • Susmit Shannigrahi (PI): NSF via Colorado State Univ.

     

      • Ambareen Siraj (PI), Eric Brown: (two awards) Dept. of TN via Fordham Univ., Dept. of Defense/National Security Agency

     

      • Daniel VandenBerge (PI): United States Navy via Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.

     

      Chris Wilson (PI): TN Dept. of Ed.

    Visit https://www.tntech.edu/research/reports/grants-awarded.php.

  • Are you interested in meeting new friends, service and leadership skills?

    Are you interested in meeting new friends, service and leadership skills?

    Attention, first and second year students! Are you interested in meeting new friends, participating in community service projects and developing leadership skills to add to your resume? Check out Alpha Phi Omega, the largest service and leadership organization in the nation, with over 500,000 alumni members in four nations worldwide! We are recruiting new members to join and develop the local chapter at Tennessee Tech!

     

    Please join us on Wednesday at 5:00 PM, either in Stonecipher Lecture Hall 126 or online via Zoom!

    Topic: Alpha Phi Omega Informational Meeting
    Time: Nov 4, 2020 05:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

    Join Zoom Meeting
    https://tntech.zoom.us/j/82287353041?pwd=Z01IRExPZ1ZOcDhTclJKSEt5UHR3Zz09

    Meeting ID: 822 8735 3041
    Passcode: 729433

     

  • Best Practices in Proposal Development Workshop

    Best Practices in Proposal Development Workshop

    During this session participants will learn about the best practices in proposal development. Included in these best practices are:

      • know the funder and understand the competition process

     

      • understand the importance of solicitation

     

      • develop a realistic timeline

     

      • navigate the toolkit

     

      and more!

    Register Now!

  • Trauma Informed Care Certificate Available

    A Trauma Informed Care Certificate is available in the School of Human Ecology. This certificate is especially beneficial to any student who plans to work in a helping profession. Please visit https://catalog.tntech.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=29&poid=3822&returnto or email hec@tntech.edu for more information.

  • BIDE Meeting November 5th

    BIDE Meeting November 5th

    BIDE (Body Image and Disordered Eating) is an all-inclusive peer support group that promotes self-growth and self-acceptance. Have a body and not sure how to feel about it? You are welcome here. This week’s meeting is at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, November 5, via Zoom. For questions and Zoom information, you can contact rlpearson43@tntech.edu or bidepeers@gmail.com.