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.