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SIFE Team Prepares for World Cup Competition in Washington, D.C.

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Students in Belmont University’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team are preparing to depart this Friday for Washington, D.C., where they will represent the United States in the 2012 SIFE World Cup, an international competition that focuses on three key areas: people, profit and planet. With the tagline “A head for business, a heart for the world,” SIFE is an international non-profit organization that mobilizes students to make a difference in their communities while developing the skills to become socially responsible business leaders.

This is the second time in three years that Belmont SIFE has won the national championship, placing the group as the No. 1 team out of nearly 600 teams nationwide. The team will represent the United States at the SIFE World Cup Sept. 30-Oct. 2 in Washington, D.C.—the U.S. Department of State is co-hosting the event with SIFE, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to speak to the competing teams.

The 2012 SIFE World Cup will provide a showcase of the impact that SIFE teams are achieving around the world and will bring together an international network of more than 3,000 student, academic and business leaders from more than 39 countries. The student teams will be judged on how successful they have been at using business solutions to create sustainable economic opportunity for others. Click here to view Belmont SIFE’s winning presentation from the national championship competition in May.

Belmont President Bob Fisher said, “I am so proud of the SIFE team and their faculty advisors. They demonstrate so clearly what a Belmont education is all about – equipping students to develop their talents and use their abilities to meet the world’s needs. Winning the National championship and qualifying to compete for the World title is a well-deserved recognition of their hard work and commitment to serving others.”

During the 2011-12 academic year, Belmont SIFE focused on 14 projects to benefit the local and global communities. They addressed issues including job skills training, small business development and environmental sustainability. Belmont SIFE students spent 2,442 volunteer hours developing and completing their projects. In addition, the 42 SIFE team members are involved in many other organizations and represent a variety of majors across campus.

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Belmont University Ranks in Top 20 in Nation for Entrepreneurship

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Center for Entrepreneurship recognized for fifth consecutive year

Belmont University’s Center for Entrepreneurship is one of the best in the nation according to The Princeton Review. The education services company today named the University No. 19 on its list of “Top Undergraduate Schools for Entrepreneurship Programs.”

Based on surveys of business school administrators at nearly 2,000 schools about their institution’s entrepreneurship offerings, the annual lists salute 50 programs in all – 25 undergraduate and 25 graduate – for their excellence in entrepreneurship education.

“It is an extraordinary accomplishment for our entrepreneurship program to have been ranked five times in the Top 25 by Entrepreneur magazine. Our faculty’s passion for innovation cultivates an environment in which students can achieve entrepreneurial success,” said College of Business Administration Dean Patrick Raines. “Our students benefit from engagement with local entrepreneurs, enter business plan competitions, and get involved in our student-run businesses or utilize our Hatchery to develop their start-up enterprises. We are very proud of the accomplishments of our students and the impact our alumni are making in the business world.”
More than 70 percent of entrepreneurship faculty have started or run a successful business, and 44 percent of the last graduating class have launched a business. The center also has 10 mentorship programs and five student organizations to support students as they begin their entrepreneurial endeavors.

“For a small program like ours to be consistently ranked among top programs is a testimony to the quality of our students and the tireless efforts of our Center for Entrepreneurship staff and faculty,” said Center for Entrepreneurship Director Jeff Cornwall.

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National Register of Copyright Speaks at Ocean Way

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National Register of Copyright Maria Pallante spoke to an audience of students, professors and industry professionals at Belmont’s Ocean Way Recording studio on Wednesday.

Pallante spoke about the unique blend of business, music and legal resources in the city that allow Nashvillians to contribute in a powerful way to ongoing copyright efforts. She acknowledged that the current tools provided to help combat copyright infringement are insufficient.

“We need a 21st century solution to a 21st century problem,” she said about issue of rampant online piracy. The laws and technology used to combat copyright infringement have not been significantly updated for decades, nor have the punishments. However, copyright infringement has been evolving.

“Years ago, there wasn’t a need to heavily penalize streaming, because it wasn’t a threat. Who was going to watch the game or a movie online, over a slow connection?” she said. “Now, that’s a viable option, and we need to find a way to combat that.”

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Alumna Selected to Serve as ‘AmbassadOREO’

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Belmont alumna Michele Keil has been selected as an AmbassadOREO winner. In celebration of Oreo’s 100th anniversary, the AmbassadOREO campaign asked Oreo-eaters to submit videos that showcased their love for the sandwich cookie and selected munchers who “[did] the best at celebrating the kid inside” as the winners.

It was not until the night before the submission deadline that Keil said she decided to enter because of her brother’s insistence. After a brainstorming with her brother, his wife and his wife’s sister, Keil ultimately came up with an idea.

“Being a Nashville resident and Belmont alum have always loved music and writing songs so I thought I’d do a bit of a spin off Taylor Swift’s song “Love Story” and just wrote my own Oreo version,” she said. She admitted that she was surprised that she won, and is still “a little shocked.”

AmbassadOREOs from all over the world will be flown to New York City for the  100th anniversary celebration.

For more information on the AmbassadOREO campaign and to see Michele’s video, click here.

Kaita: Scientists Also of Faith

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Faith and religion can be believed in tandem, according to Robert Kaita, the principal research physicist for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Kaita spoke on this “One Truth” during Wednesday chapel in the Neely Dining Hall.

“My parents taught me about the world around us and the Bible in the same way,” said the Princeton University professor. “God wrote the book of nature when he created the world and he created the book of the Bible when he gave people his Word.”

During his lecture, Kaita outlined several early scientists that believed in God. Among them was Johannes Kepler, who authored the three Laws of Planetary Motion.

“When he has returned from church and entered on the study of astronomy, may he praise and glorify the wisdom and greatness of the creator. Let him not only extol the bounty of God in the preservation of living creatures of all kinds by the strength and stability of the earth, but also let him acknowledge the wisdom of the Creator in its motion, so abstruse, so admirable,” Kepler wrote in Astronomia Nova.

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Student to Open for Singer Brantley Gilbert

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Belmont junior Ben Gallaher has won Snabajob’s Hourly Gig Contest and will open for country-rock star Brantley Gilbert on Sept. 19 at the Innsbrook After Hours Concert in Richmond, Va.

The contest invited hourly employees and job seekers to submit videos of their original songs. Out of over 600 total submissions, five finalists were selected. The final winner was chosen through a public voting process. Gallaher won the contest with a video of him performing his original song “Hold onto Me” live.

Click here to read more about Gallaher and The Hourly Gig.

College of Pharmacy Celebrates the Addition of a SNPhA Chapter

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The College of Pharmacy celebrated the establishment of the Student National Pharmaceutical Organization (SNPhA) on Belmont’s campus on Sept. 14.  Student organization advisers Edgar Diaz-Cruz and Angela Hagan presented each officer with a pin recognizing his or her service in the establishment of this organization on Belmont’s campus.

Officers within SNPhA are Tiffany Lin (president), Saransh Midha (vice president), John Shenoda (treasurer), Lauretta Onuoha (secretary), Shaikat Banerjee (service chairman) and Tracy Okoli (historian).

The mission of SNPhA is to increase the number of minorities or underrepresented students in the pharmacy profession and to increase awareness of underrepresented populations in health care.  This semester SNPhA will focus on a HIV/AIDS national initiative in conjunction with Nashville CARES.  As part of this initiative, SNPhA will host speakers and participating in the Nashville AIDS Walk on Oct. 6.  The SNPhA organization is open to not only pharmacy students but also pre-pharmacy students as well.

For more information about upcoming events or membership contact Edgar Diaz-Cruz at edgar.diaz-cruz@belmont.edu.

Puffenberger Appointed to County Foster Care Review Board

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Senior Director of Auxiliary Enterprises Fred Puffenberger was appointed to a two-year term as a Davidson County Foster Care Review Board member.

The Davidson County Foster Care Review Board Program is a cooperative effort between the Juvenile Court, state agencies who hold custodial rights of dependent children and the Nashville community. Board members review cases of children in out of home placements and make recommendations to the court and to custodial agencies to facilitate permanent homes for the children.

Puffenberger previously served on the Foster Care Review Board in Michigan for eight years.

Small Invited to Serve as Guest at String Teachers’ Conference, Clinic

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Assistant Professor of Music and Coordinator of Strings Elisabeth Small has been invited to be a panelist for two sessions at the National American String Teachers Association Conference. The two sessions in which she will participate are:

  • Kreutzer Cubed:  A Trio of Pedagogues Share and Compare Teaching Strategies with fellow panelists Brenda Brenner from Indiana University School of Music and James Lyon from Penn State University
  • Strings Performance at the Heart of the University with Fellow Panelists Mark Rudoff from Ohio State and Michael Heal

Small has also been invited to serve as “special guest” to do clinics, master classes and perform for the South Carolina ASTA State Conference, as well as work with the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts string program.

 

 

 

Belmont Receives Nomination for Healthcare Workforce Development Award

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Belmont University has been nominated for the Healthcare Workforce Development award, to be presented by the Tennessee HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) at the 2012 Summit of the Southeast being held on Oct. 16 and 17 at the Nashville Convention Center. The 2012 HIMSS Summit of the Southeast is a two-day conference joining together the Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee chapters of HIMSS, which allows healthcare IT professionals to discuss the state of the industry, as well as share thoughts and ideas on future technologies and endeavors.  Speakers include prominent healthcare IT and medical professionals, and the event will also feature technology forums displaying leading-edge products from vendors.

The Healthcare Workforce Development award recognizes an outstanding company or organization with an organized program to foster and develop new healthcare IT professionals. Glenn Acree, director of Pathways to Science, Technology and Mathematics at Belmont University, has served for the last year on the TNHIMSS Workforce Development Committee, providing a voice for academics, encouraging internship development and recognition of the role of higher education in the development of the healthcare technology workforce pipeline.

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