On Tuesday April 20 join us for two great events. First join Jonathan Blanchard and his band with an educational musical performance, “The History of Hip Hop” at 3PM in Wattenbarger Auditorium in the Bryan Fine Arts Building. Then join us for the Live on the Plaza Concert Series featuring Jonathan Blanchard’s “The Block Party”! This free event will be from 6-8PM on Centennial Plaza. Join your friends for a fun night on the Plaza. These great events are presented by The Office of Multicultural Affairs, The School of Music and The Student Government Association. See you there!
Author: Cody Bryant
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Research and Creative Inquiry Day virtual Award Ceremony coming up Apr. 20
The virtual Awards Ceremony of the 16th Annual Research and Creative Inquiry Day will be held from 11 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, April 20. The attendee link is provided here and on our website at https://www.tntech.edu/research/research-day/. Please plan to join us.
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Research and Creative Inquiry Day virtual award ceremony to be Tuesday, Apr. 20
Please plan to join us from 11 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, April 20, for the virtual Awards Ceremony of the 16th Annual Research and Creative Inquiry Day. The attendee link is provided here and on our website at https://www.tntech.edu/research/research-day/.
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Donation Drive for God’s Grace Food Pantry
TTU Delight Ministries is hosting a donation drive for God’s Grace Food Pantry. Delight TTU will be accepting donations of the items listed below until April 22, 2021 to help serve the Cookeville community.
Toothbrushes, Toothpaste, Deodorant, Toilet Paper, Feminine Hygiene Products, Shampoo, Conditioner, Body wash, Hand soap, Shaving cream, and Razors
If you have any questions contact Hannah C. at 615-925-9657 or Delight TTU on Instagram @delight_ttu
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Happy Earth Day! Drive Electric event April 17th at Sam’s Club in Cookeville TN
Tennessee Tech is leading a project to develop a rural EV testbed to demonstrate and evaluate the applications of EVs over a diverse range of activities serving a rural and largely economically depressed UC region in TN to help fleet owners make right decision in EV adoption in rural areas before making significant financial investment. As part of this project, the project team will host an EV Ride-n-Drive and Show-n-Tell event on this Saturday (April 17th). Please see information below for the detailed date, time and location, and registration.
Date and Time: April 17th, 2021, 10 am – 3 pm CT
Location: Sam’s Club, 1177 Sam’s St., Cookeville TN, 38506.
Link of event and registration: https://driveelectricearthday.org/event?eventid=2733This Ride & Drive event will give all participants a chance to test drive an EV firsthand. Participants will also gain current information on charging, maintaining and future use of EV’s. Finally, participants will have the chance to use an EV for two weeks free of charge.
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Congratulations to those who earned Faculty Research Awards
The Office of Research recently announced the winners of its latest Faculty Research awards. To see the complete list of awardees, please select the 2020-2021 drop-down at https://www.tntech.edu/research/reports/fra-i.php. Congratulations to those winners.
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iLearn Quiz Tool
The iLearn Quiz Tool enables instructors to create exams using multiple question types while implementing a wide range of settings to facilitate administering the exams. In addition, this versatile tool captures analytics, reports, and exportable data that can be used as valuable feedback for evaluating student progress and teaching effectiveness. In this session, one of our Educational Technology Specialists, Kelvin Norman, will discuss how to create questions in the Question Library, how to add the questions to a quiz, and how to apply quiz settings to give the instructor granular control. Other topics will include question pools, advanced grading options, special access, and analytics.
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Disney Club Meeting on Apr. 15
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” -Walt Disney
Come join the Disney Club this Thursday, April 15th! It will be a night of laughs and fun as we talk about all things Disney! We meet at 6pm in Johnson Hall room 409. Come on out and be our guest!
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Kappa Delta Pi Member Meeting TODAY 4/15
Kappa Delta Pi members will be holding their final meeting of the semester Thursday, April 15 at 11 A.M.
Here is the link to the zoom meeting: https://tntech.zoom.us/j/86573165232?pwd=OXdzLzBPWUdLNG9sTDRvV3B6cFR4UT09
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Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar: Darsh Dinger and Cameron Shepherd, Physics
The Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar this week features talks from Physics Majors Darsh Dinger and Cameron Shepherd. Darsh will describe his continuing work on a camera-based (very) low energy neutron detector in his talk Development of an sCMOS Position-Sensitive UCN Detector. Cameron’s talk, Exploring Nitrogen-Vacancy Magnetometry, will discuss his work constructing a quantum mechanical system sensitive to magnetic fields out of some diamond and a laser. The seminar will be this Friday, April 16th at 4pm. It is geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend! Contact Dr. Holley (aholley@tntech.edu) for connection information to the Zoom session. Visit the seminar webpage for more information and the current schedule for upcoming talks.