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Curb College Hosts Best Job Ever

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Curb College Hosts Best Job Ever

Belmont’s Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business hosted their annual Best Job Ever conference on Saturday, Nov. 14. The event is an all-day conference designed to expose students to a wide-range of careers within the entertainment industry and provide ample networking opportunities. Marcie Allen and Best Job EverThe day began with a keynote speaker, Marcie Allen of Mac Presents (inset left), followed by 20 panels presented by entertainment industry professionals. Approximately 200 students attended the conference along with 60 professionals from Nashville, Los Angeles and New York.

Young Entertainment Professionals sponsored an after-conference event at Ocean Way to provide additional networking opportunities for students including dinner and a special performance by Devin Dawson, Baylor Wilson and Louisa Wendorff.

The event was held in Belmont’s newest building, The R. Milton and Denice Johnson Center.

Slay Carr Speaks on Diversity at Faculty Breakfast

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Slay Carr Speaks on Diversity at Faculty Breakfast

Dr. Cheryl Slay Carr, Associate Professor of Music Business, presented “A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To The Classroom: Teaching Diversity In the Entertainment Industry,” during a breakfast meeting of Belmont faculty on Friday, Nov 20.

Carr’s talk included pedagogical insights from designing and delivering an Honors course called “Diversity in the Entertainment Industry: Understanding the Business of Jazz.” The course explores jazz and its commercialization as a context for teaching critical thinking about racial, ethnic and gender diversity. Carr serves as a member of the University’s Welcome Home team which recently sponsored Belmont’s first Diversity week, a week-long series of activities held to heighten awareness of diversity initiatives on campus.

 

Belmont Hosts Eighth Annual Tennessee Simulation Alliance Conference

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Belmont’s College of Health Sciences and Nursing hosted the Eighth Annual Tennessee Simulation Conference Nov. 19-20. The conference included speakers and various sessions teaching more about available simulation products in the industry and best practices for incorporating simulation into education.

Friday afternoon included a simulation product fair with Laerdal, i-Human and SimUCare, among others.

From the University of Delaware, SimuCare brought the SimUTrach, a wearable chest that represents a patient who has a tracheostromy. Watch this SimUCare Simulation from founder Amy Cowperthwait to understand how this product replaces the comfort of working on a manikin. This way, nursing students recieve practice reactions, such as breathing, blinking and coughing, from a real person. Similarly, Marie Gonzales from i-Human Patients explained their computer-based program that allows nursing students to have virtual patient encounters. “The program helps the students learn cognitive reasoning. They must be asking the right questions to give the right diagnosis,” she said. “Simulation is a safe learning enviornment. It’s low stress, self-directed and realistic. It gives the students the practice they need before they get to clinicals.”

Dean of the College of Health Sciences and Nursing Dr. Cathy Taylor talked about the great opportunity Belmont has with the vendors on campus and by seeing their products. “Beth Hallmark is such a leader. Through her work, Belmont has been put on the map, both in the southeastern region and nationally, in this emerging science,” she said.

Belmont Ranked in Top 20 List of Students Studying Abroad

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Belmont Ranked in Top 20 List of Students Studying Abroad

Belmont University ranked No. 18 on The Institute of International Education’s recently released “Open Doors Report,” a comprehensive ranking of U.S. schools by the number of students studying abroad, in conjunction with the start of International Education Week.  This is a significant increase from Belmont’s No. 29 ranking last year. Of short-term programs, Belmont is ranked No. 12 in its category.

The report found the number of U.S. students studying abroad increased by five percent in 2013-14, the highest rate of growth since before the 2008 economic downturn. While study abroad by American students has more than tripled in the last two decades, reaching a new high of 304,467, still only about 10 percent of U.S. students study abroad before graduating from college.

The report is published annually by the Institute of International Education in partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Center for Entrepreneurship Celebrates Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Day

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Center for Entrepreneurship Celebrates Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Day

Belmont’s Center for Entrepreneurship, as part of it’s entrepreneurship month celebration, hosted “Women Do It Differently, Tips From Some of the Best in the Business” for Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Day.

Featuring a panel consisting of Connie McGee, founder of Evolve Women, Van Tucker, CEO of Nashville Fashion Alliance, Jacqueline Hayes, Owner of Crayons and Marketers and moderator Linda Eskind Rebrovick, Director of the Board for HealthSpring, the event highlighted the power of women in entrepreneurship and business.

Eskind Rebrovick got the discussion started by mentioning Belmont’s support of the Nashville community and thanking the College of Business and Center for Entrepreneurship for its continued work in the entrepreneurship space. “Belmont is a jewel, a crown jewel in our city,” she said.

From there, Eskind Rebrovick engaged the panel in a number of questions to highlight the success of women in Nashville’s start-up culture, as well as the power of their voices. For Jacqueline Hayes, Crayons and Marketers grew from her personal blog to a way to support her family in a flexible way. When the time came to make the jump as an entrepreneur, Hayes knew it was time to move. “It’s either you’re gonna do it or you’re not,” she said.

As president of Nashville’s National Association of Women Business Owners chapter, Hayes said she is a strong supporter of the network women can provide for each other. It all comes down to “women helping women achieve.”

Tucker, an entrepreneur passionate about creative industries and community support, encouraged women to know the strength of their skills and claim it. “I sit at the table until somebody tells me I don’t belong there,” Tucker said. “Then I argue with them.”

For more information on Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, click here.

Students Moreland and Stokel Named Young Entrepreneurs of the Year

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Students Moreland and Stokel Named Young Entrepreneurs of the Year

Belmont students make up four of five nominees in the Young Entrepreneurs category

Seniors Channing Moreland and  Makenzie Stokel, of Evamore, were named as Nashville’s Young Entrepreneurs of the Year during the Chamber of Commerce and Entrepreneur Center’s NEXT Awards.

Held at the Renaissance Hotel on Thurs., Nov. 19, Moreland and Stokel were nominated among a group of five young entrepreneurs, four of which are current Belmont students. The group also included Blake Mankin (Mr. B’s Rap App), Grace McCaw (Fitable) and Sam Saideman (Innovo Management).

Evamore, Moreland and Stokel’s winning venture, connects quality up-and-coming musicians with event planners and agents looking to book live talent. Through a smart technology platform, Evamore “produces events, creates venues and empowers artists to do even more.”

President and CEO of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce Ralph Schulz began the award ceremony by recognizing Nashville’s entrepreneurial spirit and the talent it has produced. “What’s next for Nashville is sitting right here in this room tonight,” he said.

Joe Ivy, from event sponsor Lipscomb College of Business, presented the award to Moreland and Stokel, congratulating “the folks down the Blvd,” who were ecstatic to take home Nashville’s biggest award for young entrepreneurs and are eagerly looking forward to what this will mean for the future of Evamore.

While taking home the Young Entrepreneurs of the Year Award was a milestone for Evamore, Moreland said she is equally grateful for the chance to be among some of Nashville’s brightest thinkers. “It was incredible to be surrounded by the innovative thinkers of Nashville. This award was not just a success for us, but for the young entrepreneurial community in Nashville. It’s extremely motivating to continue working towards our vision for EVAmore.”

https://soundcloud.com/nashville-ec/next-awards-young-entrepreneur-of-the-year-reveal-shortened

Audio courtesy of The Nashville Entrepreneurship Story.

 

 

Miller and McEntire Published in Perspectives in Religious Studies

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Dr. Amanda Miller, assistant professor of Biblical studies and Dr. Mark McEntire, professor of Biblical studies, recently co-edited a special issue of the journal Perspectives in Religious Studies on “Violence and the Biblical Tradition.”

Miller also contributed an article to the issue called “Wrestling with Rome: Imperial Violence and Its Legacy in the Synoptic Gospels.” McEntire wrote the “Editorial Introduction” and a review essay called “Recent Books on Violence and the Bible.”

For more information on these publications, click here.

Students and Faculty Present Research at Regional Meeting

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Students and Faculty Present Research at Regional Meeting

Belmont undergraduate students and faculty recently presented their research at the 2015 Combined Southwest Region Meeting (SWRM) and the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS) held in Memphis. Conference topics included analytical, biological, chemical education, computational, inorganic, medicinal, organic, physical and polymer Chemistry.

rose_and_staceBelmont’s participants included:

  • Adam Woods, senior chemistry major, presented his work titled “Cationic gemini surfactants used for enhanced oil recovery” at the organic chemistry undergraduate oral presentations.
  • Bailey Rose, junior chemistry major, and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Dr. Justin Stace presented their work titled “Ligand exchange or polymerization of an enzyme-mimic Schiff-base copper (II) complex? A kinetic study” at the inorganic chemistry undergraduate poster session.
  • Ilyana Ilieva, sophomore biochemistry and molecular biology major, presented her work titled “A kinetic study of the dependence of ascorbic acid concentration on temperature and time” at the physical chemistry undergraduate poster session.
  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry Education Dr. Maria Danielle Garrett presented her work titled “It’s easy being green: Budget-friendly, safety-conscious chemistry labs for the science classroom of today” at the general organic chemistry poster session.
  • Libby Ligon, junior chemistry major and Professor of Chemistry Dr. Kim Daus also attended the meeting.

Students were able to share their work with peers and professionals and had the opportunity to attend the graduate school fair to network with representatives from various universities. Woods, Rose, Ilieva and Ligon participated in Belmont’s 2015 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in the Sciences.

Slow Food Belmont Volunteers at Nashville Food Project

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Slow Food Belmont Volunteers at Nashville Food Project

Slow Food Belmont volunteered at the Nashville Food Project on Saturday, Nov. 14. The Nashville Food Project is a non-profit organization that has the mission to “bring people together to grow, cook and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in the city.” Using locally sourced foods and fresh vegetables from the gardens, Belmont students prepared meals that went to organizations including The Front Porch and Salvation Army.

Slow Food BelmontSlow Food Belmont is a student-led organization and nationally-recognized campus chapter of Slow Food USA. Established in 2010, SFB seeks to “create a space of mutual learning, common work and collective experience” through maintaining an urban garden, sponsoring convocation events, partnering with service learning courses, partnering with Dismas House to provide residents with fresh produce and much more. SFB strives to live out and actively promote Belmont University’s mission to “engage and transform the world.”

Murphree Presents at Cheekwood’s Harvest Program

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Steven MurphreeDr. Steve Murphree, biology professor and entomologist, recently served as a demonstrator with a display about “Halloween Beetles and Creepy, Crawly Spiders” during Cheekwood Botanical Garden’s Cheekwood Harvest Program on Oct. 31.

Dr. Murphree serves as co-chair of the Sam Davis Memorial Association’s Buildings and Grounds committee. He recently assisted a prospective Eagle Scout with the construction of a garden fence behind the historic house. The SDMA preserves the Sam Davis Home to keep the story of Sam Davis, his family, and the people who labored on the Middle Tennessee farm before, during, and after the Civil War alive through museum exhibits, the historic home, preserved farm land and quality education programs.

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