Belmont School of Nursing students and faculty participated in the March of Dimes March for Babies on April 13 at LP Field. The walk raises awareness and funding for the March of Dimes work to support community programs that help moms have healthy, full-term pregnancies. The March of Dimes also funds research to find answers to the problems that threaten babies. The March for Babies has been going since 1970 and raised over $2 billion.
Nine nursing students and two faculty members participated in the walk. The students were led by senior Patrick Haltom and were sponsored by Assistant Professor of Nursing Angela Lane and Instructor of Nursing Barb Padovich. The Belmont Nursing team raised $1,160 for March of Dimes.
Associate Professor Cheryl Slay Carr presented “What’s Wrong With Making Music for…Money? Cultural and Business Implications of the Jazz ‘Purist’ vs. The Perception of the ‘Sellout’ in the Business of Jazz” at the Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association Annual Summit during the week of March 21.
Ryan Pino, a Belmont senior majoring in Asian Studies and minoring in Chinese and Comparative Philosophy, recently participated in the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Ninth Annual Philosophy Conference and Inaugural Ethics Center Convocation. This international event took place from March 27 to 29 and featured undergraduates, graduate students and professors from various countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and China. The theme of the conference was “Living Ethically in the Global World,” and the keynote address, which was given by renowned scholar of Chinese philosophy Dr. Roger Ames, was titled “Confucian Role Ethics.”
Biology department faculty members Dr. Nick Ragsdale, Dr. Jennifer Thomas, Dr. Darlene Panvini and Dr. Chris Barton and communications studies department faculty member Dr. Jimmy Davis, along with 17 biology undergraduate research students, attended the 
The Master of Sport Administration program hosted the 10th Southern Sport Management Conference at Bridgestone Arena on March 26 through 28. The conference was the first in the organization’s history to be held outside of its founding institution’s campus at Troy University. There were two primary audiences for this conference: the emerging scholar and the future sport practitioner. It is a premier educational event that aims to provide sport management scholars, practitioners, and students with current knowledge on industry trends and issues via academic and professional presentations. Sport Management faculty Dr. Amy Baker, Dr. Ted Peetz and Dr. Stephen Shin, along with Belmont Master of Sport Administration students, helped to organize and run the three-day event that included presentations from students, practitioners and academics from across the Southeast. 
During the conference, Phil Mosley and Matt Jones, students in the Sport Administration Program, presented research on March 26. The students presentation was entitled “The CrossFit Influence: Persuasion Strategies in the Fitness Industry,” which examined the six basic tendencies of human behavior as outlined by Robert Cialdini’s weapons of influence and how CrossFit gyms use these influencers in their marketing strategies.
Sport Administration students Matthew Cox and Justin McQuistan represented Belmont University as part of Graduate Education Week on March 26 at the Legislative Plaza. They displayed their research, which was an extension of a study conducted by The Wall Street Journal that investigated major college football teams on two axes: projected athletic success and how shameful their activities have been off the field. The students modified this report to examine men’s college basketball programs and explore the concepts of fame and shame within intercollegiate athletics. The Tennessee Conference of Graduate Schools hosted Graduate Education Week to celebrate graduate research in Tennessee.
The partnership between Belmont University and Rose Park Middle Magnet School culminated Friday with seventh and eighth grade students from the middle school’s journalism club seeking advice from University students, receiving instruction from Belmont instructors and using the Media Studies journalism lab to write articles.
Nicole Vincent, a seventh-grade geography teacher and the newspaper’s adviser, said she hopes the visit to Belmont gave her journalism students “valuable career information” through their exposure to the college campus and Nashville journalists.