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Ferrara to Present at SPP6 Conference

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Dr. Davon Ferrara, assistant professor of physics, will present at the 6th International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP6). The conference is being held in Ottawa, Canada, the week of May 26-31.

Plasmonics is a rapidly growing and evolving field on the cutting edge of optical science and engineering. The SPP conference series is the premier international series of conferences in this field. SPP6 will bring together about 700 plasmonics experts from across the globe, both junior and senior, from academia and industry, to share their latest results and set the agenda for future developments in the field.

Ferrara will present a talk titled “Gold Nanodisks as Near-Field Probes of the Insulator-to-Metal Transition in VO2.” The research paper concerning this work has been submitted for publication and was done through collaborations with Vanderbilt University.

Holt Moderates Carter-Lawrence Spelling Bee

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For the second year in a row, Dr. Linda Holt, professor and chairman of the Department of English, and Dr. Jon Roebuck, member of the Board of Trustees and pastor of Woodmont Baptist Church, moderated the annual spelling bee at Carter-Lawrence Elementary Math and Science Magnet School.

Holt has a long-standing relationship with Carter-Lawrence as a service-learning partner, and Roebuck has a keen interest in education at all levels. The spelling bee is coordinated by Carter-Lawrence Media Specialist  Jana Whittle. Judges included past principals Melba Meriweather and Ruth Beaman; and the Carter-Lawrence Parent Teacher Organization provided trophies. Forty fourth graders were given the opportunity to participate in the competition based upon recommendations from their classroom teachers.

Chemistry Faculty, Students Present at American Chemical Society Expo

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Michelle Leatherwood and Fatin Jweinat also presented the SMACS (Student Members of the American Chemical Society) chapter poster, “Belmont Student Members Show the Community that Science is Fun.”

Belmont Chemistry faculty Dr. Rachel Rigsby and Dr. Alison Moore, along with six Belmont University students, attended the American Chemical Society’s 245th National Meeting & Exposition in New Orleans, La.  The conference took place on April 7-11, with over 15,000 chemists, academics, students and other professionals in attendance.  The focus of the meeting was the chemistry of energy and food in our society. Five Belmont students presented undergraduate research posters:

Logan Books:  “Determining Chemical Compounds in the Mint Plant Blephilia Ciliata”
Michelle Leatherwood:  “Redox Reactions of a Schiff-base Copper (II) Complex”
Dviti Mody:  “Antioxidants and Polyphenol Activity: It’s Getting Hot”
Soham Mody:  “Save your Bible the Organic Way”
Rebecca Newton:  “Greener Synthesis of Carvone from the Oxidation of Limonene”

SouthEast Bank Awards Scholarship to Belmont Business Students

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Belmont University and SouthEast Bank announce the formation of a new scholarship to award $28,000 over four years to an incoming business student. The reoccurring scholarship will be awarded biennially to a new student.

SouthEast Bank Scholarship Director Tommy Schumpert said, “SouthEast Bank is proud to support Belmont University in awarding scholarships to promising Tennessee students. Because we are operated by local employees who live and work alongside the people we serve, SouthEast Bank is a true community bank that uses our resources to reinvest in our schools, organizations, and neighborhoods. Through the SouthEast Bank Scholars program, we fulfill this mission by rewarding outstanding students who demonstrate a combination of academic excellence, community service, and financial need with the opportunity to reach their greatest potential through higher education.”

The first SouthEast Bank Scholarship will be given in August to a student from Tennessee studying finance, accounting or banking with at least a 3.25 high school grade point average and 23 ACT score as well as the financial need and evidence of community involvement.

“The creation of the SouthEast Bank scholarship will assist our highly talented and skillful finance and accounting students in achieving their dreams of a Belmont education.  SouthEast Bank’s generosity reflects their high regard for education and dedication to ensuring a well-prepared workforce through our students”  said Charles Harper, Belmont’s director of financial aid and associate director of student financial services.

Ranked No. 7 in the Regional Universities South category and named for the fifth consecutive year as one of the top “Up-and-Comer” universities by U.S. News & World Report, Belmont University consists of approximately 6,650 students who come from every state and 25 countries. Committed to being a leader among teaching universities, Belmont brings together the best of liberal arts and professional education in a Christian community of learning and service. The university’s purpose is to help students explore their passions and develop their talents to meet the world’s needs, a fact made evident in the University’s hometown, Nashville, where students served more than 60,000 hours of community service (valued at $450,000) during the last academic year. Belmont is also home to the World Cup champion Enactus team, a group of 42 student leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better, more sustainable world. With more than 80 areas of study, 23 master’s programs and five doctoral degrees, there is no limit to the ways Belmont University can expand an individual’s horizon. For more information, visit www.belmont.edu.

Live Beyond, Belmont Partner to Share Facilities, Academic Resources

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A Live Beyond staff member unpacks in the nonprofits new headquarters on Belmont’s campus.

In a unique partnership, Belmont University recently became home to a Christian nonprofit organization dedicated to providing health care in Haiti. The partnership will also allow Belmont students to provide medical and educational resources as well as  business development to the ailing Caribbean country.

Founded by retired trauma surgeon David Vanderpool, Live Beyond moved in May into the Facilities Management Services building at the corner of 15th and Delmar avenues. Formerly called Mobile Medical Disaster Relief, Live Beyond provides basic health care and clean water in several developing countries.

“We at Live Beyond strive to generously live beyond our culture, our homes and our wealth so that others may live.  We see this same spirit in Belmont University and are excited to forge this new partnership to reach the lost and dying together,” Vanderpool said.

The Belmont location will serve as headquarters as Vanderpool and his wife, Laurie, move to Thomazeau, Haiti, a region of 200,000 people he adopted shortly after the 2010 earthquake that leveled much of the already poor nation.  Since then, the Vanderpools have traveled to Haiti each month to provide medical care and food through Live Beyond. The foundation has already built a 40-bed teaching hospital in the country and plans to expand a local elementary school to all grade levels.

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Commencement Week Honors 955 Graduates

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Belmont University held its spring 2013 commencement ceremonies on May 4 in the Curb Event Center, but the 955 graduates first enjoyed a week’s worth of activities to mark the end of their college careers.

First, on the Wednesday before graduation, an event was held at the Bell Tower amphitheatre called “Life Beyond the Tower,” which gave students a chance to reflect on their history at the University while looking ahead to adventures to come.The event provides an appropriate four-year bookend to “Life Under the Tower,” held each fall for incoming freshmen the night before their first classes begin. Click here to view a spoken word performance by graduating senior and former Mid South Grand Slam college champion Levi Gordon from this year’s “Life Beyond the Tower.” Photos from the event can be seen here.

On Friday, graduating students and their families were invited to participate in an annual worship service. Held in the Curb Event Center, “Baccalaureate: A Service of Ordination to Daily Work” featured students from across the disciplines telling how God is calling them to use what they have learned at Belmont in service to others. Follow the links to listen to the speeches given by graduating seniors Meghan McKechnie (nursing), Kayla Becker (mass communication), Jim Darter (Accounting) and Hilary Hambrick (international business).

Saturday brought the culmination to the week as Belmont celebrated the graduation of a total of 955 students during two ceremonies on May 4. During the graduation ceremonies, 765 undergraduate, 105 master’s and 85 doctoral degrees were conferred. The morning ceremony saw candidates from the College of Business Administration, the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business and the College of Visual and Performing Arts receive their degrees while the afternoon honored candidates from the College of Arts and Sciences, the Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences and Nursing, the College of Pharmacy, University College and Interdisciplinary Programs and the School of Religion. Online video streams of both events are available for viewing here.

Hillside Mattress Donation Gives Tornado Victims ‘Sweet Sleep’

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Belmont University donated 228 full-size mattresses, box springs and bed springs to Oklahoma tornado victims and foster families in the Nashville area on Thursday.

More than 50 volunteers with Sweet Sleep gathered the bed sets from Hillside Apartment buildings and loaded them into two trucks. Belmont previously coordinated the mattress donation with Sweet Sleep, a faith-based nonprofit organization that exists to share God’s love by providing beds to the world’s orphaned and abandoned children.

“Belmont has a desire to treat the environment with care, so simply throwing away the mattress was not an option. We were looking for other ways to re-purpose them, and donating them to an organization that could put them to good use, like giving them to children in the foster care system and to disaster victim, fits with Belmont’s mission of influencing the community in a positive way,” said Hillside Residence Director Hannah Aschliman.

Sweet Sleep President and Founder Jennifer Gash said the organization arranged to put many of the mattresses in storage before the tornadoes hit Oklahoma’s suburbs on Monday, causing more than $2 billion in damage, damaging or destroying more than 1,200 homes and killing at least 24 people. She called the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, which had an “overwhelming need for mattresses. We lifted such a large burden off them,” Gash said.

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Kiningham Published in Cancer Research

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Dr. Kelley Kiningham, assistant dean of student affairs and associate professor in the Pharmaceutical, Social and Administrative Sciences Department, coauthored an article accepted for publication in Cancer Research. The article, “KEAP1 is a Redox Sensitive Target That Arbitrates the Opposing Radiosensitive Effects of Parthenolide in Normal and Cancer Cells” identifies a mechanism by which differences in cellular redox status can be targeted to kill tumor cells, while protective of normal tissue when radiation is used as a therapeutic. Kiningham states that finding pharmacological approaches to protect normal tissue during treatment of patients with cancer is important to reduce side effects and improve compliance.

 

Vaughn, Parry Co-Author Article

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Pam Parry
Mary Stairs Vaughn

Mary Stairs Vaughn and Pam Parry, of the Communication Studies Department, co-authored an article published in the May 16 issue of Communication Teacher, a peer-reviewed journal published by the National Communication Association. Their article is titled “The Statement of Purpose Speech: Helping Students Navigate the ‘Sophomore Slump.'”

Cameron Newbauer Named Women’s Basketball Head Coach

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Cameron NewbauerBelmont University Director of Athletics Mike Strickland announced Monday the hiring of Cameron Newbauer as the fourth head women’s basketball coach in program history.

“We could not be more pleased that Cameron has accepted our offer to lead our women’s basketball program,” Strickland said. “Throughout this process, Cameron has exceeded our expectations in every regard. His impressive background in both the women’s and men’s game speaks for itself. Yet Cameron’s character, sincerity and enthusiasm are unmistakable and ideally suited for Belmont University.”

With experience at every level, Newbauer spent this past season as an assistant coach at the University of Louisville, where he helped the Cardinals to a 29-9 record. Earning an NCAA Tournament No. 5 seed, Louisville won five consecutive games – including four over nationally-ranked opponents in Purdue, California, Tennessee and consensus No. 1 Baylor – to reach the National Championship game. It was the Cardinals’ second National Championship game appearance in five years.

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