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Author: Cody Bryant

  • March Water Week Creative Writing Contest!

    March Water Week Creative Writing Contest!

    CALLING ALL WRITERS!

    The Office of Sustainability is hosting our second annual Creative Writing Contest for this year’s Water Week (March 21-25)! We are open to all forms of creative writing, such as short stories, plays, poems, comics, etc. The only criteria is that your work must be centered on the theme of WATER and be no longer than 1,000 words!

    Submissions opened March 7th and will close on March 25th! We cannot wait to see what you come up with!

    Oh, and the winner will receive a sustainability gift bag and be featured on our website and social media!!

    Good luck, everyone!
    ttugreen@tntech.edu

  • APO Pictionary Night

    APO Pictionary Night

    Please Join APO for a Night of Fun!

    Come show off your artistic abilities during our Pictionary night!

    Food and refreshments will be provided! I look forward to seeing you all there!

    Alpha Phi Omega is Co-Ed Service Organization based on the Cardinal Principles of Leadership, Friendship, and Service. A few examples of what we do include: Blood Drives, Personal Care Product Drives, Relief Drives, Campus Cleanups, Nursing Home and Emergency Services Card Making, etc. We strive to embody the aforementioned Cardinal Principles in all that we do in order to help others, build lifelong friendships, and develop ourselves as professional individuals. If this sounds like something that you are interested in, please join us during  our event tomorrow night, or if you are unable to make it and would still like to learn more please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. (Contact info below.)

    Warren Sims
    APO President
    Email: wcsims42@tntech.edu
    Cell: (423) 582-6483

  • Title IX at 50: Women make Sports History

    Title IX at 50: Women make Sports History

    Join us as we make an exciting dive into the amazing history of women in sports with Dr. Banton. This event is sponsored by the Women & Gender studies and Race & Ethnic Studies Minor, along with Athletics, Title IX, and Project Aspires. The event starts at 8pm on March 21 in Derryberry Auditorium.

    For more information visit https://www.tntech.edu/women/events.php.

     

  • R.A.C.E. (Reaching Achievement and Committed to Excellence) Program Applications

    R.A.C.E. (Reaching Achievement and Committed to Excellence) Program Applications

    Apply now to become a R.A.C.E. Mentor, an Ambassador, or to participate in R.A.C.E. PLUS! Details highlighted in the flyer along with QR codes to take you to the application! R.A.C.E. Program information here! Ambassador information here! Email Niya Sparks at nsparks42@tntech.edu if you have any questions or want more information!

  • CITL Small Group Instructional Diagnostics

    CITL Small Group Instructional Diagnostics

    This semester, the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) will be conducting Small Group Instructional Diagnostics (SGID) from March 21-28th. A facilitator from the CITL will guide your students through a series of questions about your course which will be used to provide helpful feedback to improve your course prior to the end of the semester. To find out more about this process and to book your SGID, please use the link below. Contact the CITL at citl@tntech.edu with any questions.

    Learn More & Book Now

  • Data Science League Presents a Talk with Dr. Rina Singh Thursday March 10th

    Data Science League Presents a Talk with Dr. Rina Singh Thursday March 10th

    Join the Data Science League this Thursday March 10th at 11 A.M. in Bruner Hall 327 to hear Dr. Rina Singh speak on Machine Learning and more! Financial institutes routinely use machine learning models for a broad range of activities, including credit risk management, regulatory compliance, and fraud detection. In this presentation, we will investigate how to build a simple NLP model for detecting fraud. We will explore simple improvements that can be made to our model and conclude with a discussion on model interpretability.

    For questions, email President Katie Brown at kebrown46@tntech.edu. Hope to see you there!

  • Commencement Invitations Available to Order

    Tech’s Printing Services is pleased to offer customized commencement invitations for graduating students. Order now to receive in time for your spring graduation ceremony. No payment required for submitting an order, but will be required when picking up invitations — cash, check and credit cards are accepted. Mailing options for orders are available — just contact Printing Services directly at printingservices@tntech.edu. To place your order, visit https://www.tntech.edu/ocm/commencement-invitations.php.

  • R101: Responsible Conduct of Research

    R101: Responsible Conduct of Research

    Join the Office of Research in partnership with the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFÉ) for the final session in our Research 101 series: Responsible Conduct in Research. Responsible Conduct in Research is simply good citizenship applied to professional life. Important shared values for the responsible conduct in research that bind all researchers together are honesty, accuracy, efficiency, and objectivity. This workshop will build on the already required CITI training and offer insights into some conflicting situations that arise during the conduct of research. Register below to join us on Thursday, March 10th at 11 AM. Please contact the CAFÉ with any questions at cafe@tntech.edu.

    Register

  • TN Tech Counseling Center: Questions Persuade Refer March 24th

    TN Tech Counseling Center: Questions Persuade Refer March 24th

    Join the Tennessee Tech Counseling center in the Tech Pride room to learn skills you can use to prevent suicide. The training is open to all students and faculty taking place on March 24th. The first 20 people to arrive at the event will receive a free beanie! If you have any questions contact counsel@tntech.edu or 931-372-3331.

  • I Heart Tech Students Spotlight: Whitson-Hester School of Nursing

    I Heart Tech Students Spotlight: Whitson-Hester School of Nursing

    The Whitson-Hester School of Nursing asks the Golden Eagle community to support the Nursing Student Scholarship and Nursing Student Emergency Fund. These scholarships and emergency funds reward the best and brightest prospective and current nursing students and allow the WHSON to step in and assist students who are experiencing financial hardships that threaten their journey to a nursing career. We need nurses now more than ever!

    Any gift of any amount to any area made online at https://1915.tntech.edu between Feb. 14 and Mar. 28 counts in the I Heart Tech Students total. Check out the causes featured this year. You can make a gift to the WHSON or to any area on campus that is meaningful to you. Visit https://1915.tntech.edu to learn more.