MTSU professor Cliff Ricketts capped off an eventful and historic spring 2013 semester by receiving the President’s Silver Column Award from Dr. Sidney A. McPhee and learning that news reports on his 2,600-mile coast-to-coast drive — using no gasoline — generated more than 2.2 million viewers across the country, according to Metro Monitor, a news and media monitoring service.
Ricketts, a 37-year faculty member in the School of Agribusiness and Agriscience, has spent much of his career in alternative fuels research. You can read the complete story at mtsunews.com/ricketts-silver-column-award-2013 and watch a brief video from the event below.
Dr. Cliff Ricketts’ five decades of alternative fuels research and exemplary classroom teaching have been acknowledged in a special way by MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee. McPhee surprised the 37-year MTSU School of Agribusiness and Agriscience faculty member today when he presented Ricketts with the President’s Silver Column Award in…
Dr. Cliff Ricketts of MTSU plans two coast-to-coast expeditions in the next two years using different alternative-fuel sources in two different vehicles. Funding for the trips grew with the announcement of a $15,000 grant from Farm Credit Services of Mid-America and additional financial support from the MTSU provost and the…
In receiving a National Future Farmers of America VIP citation this year, MTSU School of Agribusiness and Agriscience professor Cliff Ricketts did not have to drive more than 5,000 miles using only 2 gallons of gas. All Ricketts, who has achieved notoriety for his alternative fuels research, had to do…
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