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MTSU cancels Chinese New Year events, takes coronavirus precautions

Angele Latham | Editor In Chief February 1, 2020

In a university-wide announcement, Middle Tennessee State University President Sydney McPhee announced the cancellation of two Chinese cultural campus events as a precaution against coronavirus. The first,...

Fengyun’s Women’s Choir joins MTSU Women's Chorale in concert as part of Festival of Chinese Arts

Fengyun’s Women’s Choir joins MTSU Women’s Chorale in concert as part of Festival of Chinese Arts

Angele Latham | Editor In Chief February 4, 2019

Photo by Angele Latham / MTSU Sidelines Students and the public gathered at the Hinton Music Hall Saturday for a night of cultural appreciation and awe as the Fengyun’s Women’s Choir joined the MTSU...

MTSU renews academic partnership with Chinese university for 10 more years

MTSU renews academic partnership with Chinese university for 10 more years

CIM Digital July 20, 2018

Photo courtesy of Andrew Oppmann Story by Megan Cole / Assistant News Editor MTSU President Sidney McPhee renewed an academic partnership with Ningbo University in China on Friday, according to a press...

MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, seated left, and Miao Jianhua, director of the Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants, sign an agreement to establish a joint international research center for the study of Tennessee-grown ginseng. Also present at the signing, back, from left, is local businessman Ted LaRoche of Greenway Herbal Products; state Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro; MTSU professor Iris Gao, who will serve as the center’s American director; MTSU professor Elliot Altman, who leads the Tennessee Center of Botanical Medicine Research at MTSU; and officials from the Guangxi garden. (MTSU Photo by Andrew Oppmann)

MTSU President Sidney McPhee, Chinese partner sign agreement to create joint ginseng institute

CIM Digital May 24, 2018

Photo courtesy of MTSU Middle Tennessee State University and its primary research partner in China agreed to create a joint ginseng institute. The institute will study, develop and promote Tennessee-gown...

MTSU President Sidney McPhee travels to China for lecture series, encourages students to study abroad

MTSU President Sidney McPhee travels to China for lecture series, encourages students to study abroad

Sidelines May 11, 2018

Photo courtesy of Andrew Oppmann Story by Megan Cole / Assistant News Editor MTSU President Sidney McPhee began a lecture series in China Wednesday to emphasize cultural outreach. He will travel to four...

Student-led Culture and Conversation group allows foreign exchange students to hone English skills, American culture

Student-led Culture and Conversation group allows foreign exchange students to hone English skills, American culture

CIM Digital November 9, 2017

Photo by Ethan Clark / MTSU Sidelines People in non-English speaking countries often learn English from a young age through child English learning apps due to the fact it is such a dominant language...

MTSU Shodo Club embraces history during modernization of art form

MTSU Shodo Club embraces history during modernization of art form

Sidelines September 15, 2017

Photo and story by Sabrina Tyson / Contributing Writer Nervous students prepare to touch brush to paper for the first time, while Fusae Ekida, a Japanese professor at MTSU, leans over each of them, trying...

Brown Bag Lunch Series lecturer Zhen Wang delivers speech on Chinese President Xi Jinping's battle against corruption

Brown Bag Lunch Series lecturer Zhen Wang delivers speech on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s battle against corruption

CIM Digital April 13, 2017

Photo and Story by Steve Barnum / Staff Writer MTSU Professor of Political Science and International Relations Zhen Wang gave a speech Wednesday in the Student Union Building on the battle against corruption...

President McPhee meets with  Jiangsu Aviation Technical College officials while visiting China for  educational exchange program in 2016.

Chinese aviation college seeks partnership with MTSU

Sidelines July 20, 2016

Photo and video courtesy of MTSU News The organizers behind a new college in China are meeting with MTSU Wednesday to form one of its first foreign partnerships. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee began...

MTSU signs agreement with Chinese science university

Sidelines May 13, 2016

Photo courtesy of MTSU News Middle Tennessee State University and Zhejiang University of Science and Technology signed an agreement on Thursday that will allow MTSU to begin discussions about student...

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