The Center for Rural Innovation is now hiring a student photographer for events and project-based work for spring semester and beyond.
Applicants must be familiar with photo equipment and editing software. Video experience a bonus. Own equipment preferred but not required.
If you are interested, please email akruszka@tntech.edu and include a link to examples of your work. Pay starts at $15/hr with potential increases.
Attention all book club members and lovers of the horror genre! The English Club will be hosting its book club meeting on Tuesday, November 18, during dead hour. This is where students will discuss and share their opinions of ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King. Earlier in the semester, students voted on which book to read. If you are not part of the book club and have still read it, please feel free to come by! We hope to see you there!📚
Non-instructional faculty assignments (NIFA) proposals are due to department chairs/directors by January 9, 2026. NIFA are designed to contribute to the professional growth of the faculty, improve teaching and curriculum across the University, and/or enhance scholarship and academic excellence of Tennessee Tech in ways that cannot be accomplished under constraints of regular workload assignments. Applicants are responsible for submitting proposals to Academic Affairs by January 23, 2025. Visit the website additional details.
It’s been a year of impactful research and discoveries for Gabriel Porteiro, a computer science major from Brazil.
Porteiro, who anticipates a May 2026 graduation, has been reaping the benefits of having received the Generation Google Scholarship for the 2024-2025 academic year. He was one of just 50 students selected from 2,500 applicants for the prestigious award.
“The financial support of this scholarship allowed me to completely focus on my academic career for a full year,” Porteiro said. “I have enjoyed my time doing research at Tennessee Tech, and it opened my eyes to different paths, including my plans to move forward to graduate school to study the intersection of finance and computer science.”
On November 19th at 7:00p.m., the Center of Addiction, Prevention, and Support will be hosting a holiday event with snow globe making, a Jeopardy competition, prizes, and hot cocoa! It is a time to unwind and have fun with friends right before the holidays. This event will be hosted in the Tech Pride Room in the Roaden University Center. We hope to see you there!
This Friday the Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar is hosting Professor Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli from Vanderbilt University. Professor Kunnawalkam Elayavalli is an experimental high energy nuclear physicist who studies one of the most fundamental states of matter, the quark-gluon plasma. In her talk Back to fundamental QCD – a tale of quarks and gluons!, Professor Kunnawalkam Elayavalli will describe how such an exotic state of matter can be created and studied, and what we can learn from it. The seminar will be at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210, with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend!
Tennessee Tech Dining debuted its first Supper Club, an exclusive event with SGA that united campus leaders for gourmet dining, live jazz by a group of talented jazz students, and handcrafted mocktails. Designed to foster connection and celebrate impact, the evening earned praise for creativity and class. This is just the beginning of The Supper Club.
The Office of the President is hosting a Christmas ornament decorating contest! This is open to departments across campus, but only one entry per department. The theme is gingerbread, so think all things gingerbread cookies, houses, gumdrop buttons, icing, and the works. Use your creativity! Entries must be able to easily sit or hang on a tree branch. No store bought ornaments can be entered, and all entries must be family friendly. Entries don’t have to be limited to baked gingerbread, but can be made of any kind of craft supplies.
Registration and ornament drop off opens today, Thursday, 11/13, and runs through Friday, 12/5. Ornaments can be dropped off at the front desk in Derryberry Hall, room 206 and will be judged by an impartial group. First, second, and third place winners will be announced in Tech Times on Tuesday, 12/16. Register here. Who will take home the trophy???
Please email Aleta Cannon (cacannon@tntech.edu) with any questions.
Members of Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) – Join us tomorrow – Friday, November 14, 2025, in the Roden University Center, room 246, starting at 11:00 a.m., for our November lunch meeting. Agenda: Business meeting, Guest Speaker: CityScape Executive Director, Ferran Kefauver. Lunch is provided. Let us know you’re coming! Register via Eagle Engage so we know you’re coming. Thank you.
To comply with Foundation Policy #005, any staff member who accepts tangible property must submit a gift-in-kind form documenting the donation. If your department has accepted any items by a donor, alum, or business this calendar year, please submit a gift-in-kind form no later than Thursday, December 18th. Gift-in-kind guidelines can be found here. Contact Elizabeth Williams at 372-6101 or ewilliams@tntech.edu with questions or to request a gift-in-kind form.