Belmont’s Director of Service-Learning Tim Stewart and Associate Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and the Director of the Center for Social Entrepreneurship Dr. Bernard Turner presented at the 6th International Summit on Service-Learning at the University of Indianapolis, held May 27–30. Their presentation, “Connecting Campus to Community: Integrating a Web-based Software Platform to Support Service-learning and Civic Engagement,” shared Belmont’s experience with the implementation of the “Get Connected” software platform, designed to assist in better connecting campus to community service opportunities and tracking student involvement.
The summit was co-organized by the University of Indianapolis and Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, and co-sponsored by Bellarmine University and Indiana Campus Compact. This year’s bi-annual symposium focused on Service-Learning as a Global Interdisciplinary Movement: Transforming Communities & Higher Education, and drew nearly 180 participants from eight countries including Australia, Egypt, Canada, China, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan and the United States.
Sarah Bonaparte, a May 2015 biology graduate, was recently hired for a year-long contract through Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education for a Human Papillomavirus (HPV) serology laboratory fellowship in the chronic viral disease branch at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.
School of Music Professor and Coordinator of Instrumental Studies Joel Treybig, Faculty Member Andrew Risinger and Trumpeter Adam Hayes were recently lauded as featured recitalists at the 2015 International Trumpet Guild Conference in Columbus, Ohio.
A trumpet ensemble comprised of twelve Belmont student trumpeters and a timpanist performed by invitation last week at the 2015 International Trumpet Guild conference, held this year in Columbus, Ohio.
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) recently announced the selection of Dr. Sybril Brown, professor of journalism at Belmont University, as the association’s 2015 Journalism Educator of the Year. The award recognizes the service, commitment and academic guidance of an outstanding journalism teacher, professor or educator who has helped increase the number of black journalists in newsrooms.
Pinter presented a poster session titled “Two Engaging Activities for Student or Faculty Groups” in which he described the Three-Hat Game (with its counterintuitive outcome), the Dekaaz poetry form (including random generation of form variations), suggestions for using the activities with groups, and the connection for both activities to binary numbers. The conference offered hands-on workshops, plenary sessions with teaching and learning scholars, dozens of concurrent sessions and a variety of poster presentations. Because of the cross-disciplinary nature of the conference, participants had the opportunity to interact with college and university teachers from around the country in explorations connected to promoting enhanced teaching and learning outcomes. Many of the presentations were related to the scholarship of teaching and learning as well as the scholarships of integration and application.
Belmont junior and singer/songwriter James Morris will be returning to the 
Belmont Professor of Biology Dr. Steve Murphree recently gave two talks about insects in nature to the home schooled children at Whole Heart Primary School (WHP) in Nashville. WHP provides weekly hands-on enrichment classes for their kindergarten – 6th grade children.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Education Dr. Ryan Fox recently co-authored 10 chapters in a new textbook titled, Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching. The textbook publisher said, “The work described in this volume takes a sometimes-neglected approach, focusing on the dynamic nature of mathematical understanding rather than on a stable description of mathematical knowledge, and on mathematics for secondary teaching rather than mathematics for teaching at the elementary level. The work reported in Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching: A Framework and Classroom-Based Situations is a practice-based response to the question of what mathematical understandings secondary teachers could productively use in their teaching.”