Station News & Events

Dr. Phil Oliver, an MTSU philosophy professor, will discuss his fall class in “Environmental Ethics” at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27, and 8 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 2, on “MTSU On the Record” with host Gina Logue on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).

Oliver, who has taught the class intermittently for 10 years, approaches the subject from the standpoints of various thinkers who have had an impact on public viewpoints.

Public Radio International and the producers of TheTakeaway have announced a major format change for The Takeaway. So, accordingly WMOT will adjust the morning schedule.  PRI has announced that after four years of producing The Takeaway as a four-hour program they will discontinue the early morning drive version  and will present a one-hour revamped Takeaway starting on September 3rd. 

Jaye Murray, one of four U.S. students newly honored by the Society for Human Resource Management, will be the guest on “MTSU on the Record” with host Gina Logue at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5, and 8 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).

Murray, who hails from Orlando, Fla., is a recipient of the 2012 Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year award from the Society for Human Resource Management.

Dr. June Hall McCash will talk about her book, “A Titanic Love Story: Ida and Isodor Straus,” on the next edition of “MTSU On the Record” with host Gina Logue at 5:30 p.m. Monday, July 30, and 8 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 5, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).

McCash, founding director of the MTSU University Honors Program and former chair and now professor emerita of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, tells the true story of the German Jewish immigrants who died aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912.

An MTSU director whose first children’s book has received the Betty Ford Center’s seal of approval will be Gina Logue’s guest on the next edition of “MTSU On the Record” at 5:30 p.m. Monday, July 23, and 8 a.m. Sunday, July 29, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and www.wmot.org).

Elaine Mitchell Palmore, the head of MTSU’s Child Development Center, is the author of “The Dragon Who Lives at Our House.” It’s one of only 14 books about addiction recommended for children by the famed alcohol and drug-abuse treatment center in Rancho Mirage, Calif.