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Alexander Appointed to 2012 TNCPE Board of Examiners

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Dr. Joe F. Alexander, associate dean of Belmont’s Massey Graduate School of Business, has been appointed by the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence (TNCPE) to the 2012 Board of Examiners. Every year the TNCPE award program recognizes organizations demonstrating excellence in business operations and results.

As an examiner, Alexander is responsible for reviewing and evaluating organizations that apply for a TNCPE Award. The Board of Examiners comprises experts from all sectors of the regional economy, including health care, service, non-profit, manufacturing, education and government. All members of the Board of Examiners must complete extensive training in the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence. Examiners take the skills developed during training and the assessment process back to their own jobs, benefiting and improving their own organizations in the process.

Each year, the TNCPE Board of Examiners contributes more than 10,000 hours of volunteer service to organizations across Tennessee.

Established in 1993 as a public-private partnership by Governor Ned R. McWherter, the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence strives to promote economic development by helping companies and organizations grow more competitive in today’s global marketplace through affordable, in-depth assessments. A statewide non-profit, TNCPE is patterned after the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, the national standard for recognizing organizational excellence. More than 1,200 organizations have participated in and benefited from the TNCPE program. Four Tennessee businesses—Caterpillar Financial  Services, Pal’s Sudden Service, Eastman Chemical Company and Federal Express—have received both the prestigious Baldrige National Quality Award and the TNCPE Excellence Award. For more information, visit www.tncpe.org .

Belmont SIFE Welcomes Championship Trophy to Campus

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Several members of Belmont’s SIFE team took breaks from their summer jobs to visit campus July 20 to celebrate the arrival of the national championship trophy. The win, which came at the SIFE USA National Exposition held in Kansas City in May, represents Belmont SIFE’s second national title in three years.

Belmont SIFE will compete at the international SIFE World Cup Sept. 30-Oct. 2 in Washington, D.C. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is confirmed to host the event.  The team is currently working to update their presentation script, video and annual report to reflect their position as “SIFE USA” and highlight progress made since the National Exposition. Belmont SIFE is also preparing for the Cultural Fair, a much anticipated networking event that takes place the first night of the World Cup, at which every country’s winning team hosts a booth with giveaways and symbols from their country.

In the midst of World Cup preparation, the team continues to develop new and existing projects. Eric Taft and Brennon Mobley have spent several hours this summer compiling a Spring Back Recycling Operations Manual so that the operation can be replicated in other cities around the world.

Notably, Belmont’s team is also meeting with top executives from some of SIFE’s sponsor companies, including Tractor Supply Co., Wells Fargo and Dollar General, to network and share its winning presentation.

Phi Delts Earn National Community Service Award

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Belmont University’s Tennessee Zeta Chapter of Phi Delta Theta received the Stan Brown Award at its annual Phi Delta Theta Convention held in Washington, D.C.  The Stan Brown Award is presented to the chapter judged to have the most outstanding one-day or individual community service project.  Belmont’s Phi Delta Theta members received the award as a result of the Edgehill Family Halloween Sports Night on Oct. 29, 2011 at E.S. Rose Park. They co-sponsored the community event with Phi Mu, Edgehill Rose Park Walking Club, Easley Community Center, Belmont Athletics, Belmont Sports Administration, the School of Pharmacy and the Office of Community Relations.

Salama Brings ‘The Wiz’ to Belmont

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Continuing a five-year partnership, Belmont University’s Troutt Theater will host a production from The Salama Institute this weekend as students from the Christian-based nonprofit organization perform The Wiz.

Last summer Salama celebrated its 25th anniversary with Dimensions, a Cavalcade of Music from Opera to Broadway that included performances of Porgy and Bess, The Wiz, West Side Story, Dreamgirls, Grease, Cinderella and Carousel. This year, students return to The Wiz, a soulful rendition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

“We do Broadway for a couple of reasons: it demands artistic excellence, is a great training ground for our kids and exposes them to more classic work,” said Development Director George Crook. “We have been doing Broadway shows for 11 years and use it as character development for our kids. Peer pressure, sex, drugs, broken relationships, the struggles with fame – we try to take these things and find the life lessons our kids can learn from it. The Wiz is a historical African-American production, and it has a lot of life lessons on why you have to value home. With the tornado we talk about the trials of life, courage and hope.”

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Belmont Student Named National Resident Assistant of the Month

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The National Affiliation of College and University Residence Halls (NACURH) named Belmont’s Antario Jones as  national Resident Assistant of the Month. Jones is a junior studying psychology and served in Patton/Bear House as a resident assistant to more than 500 freshmen during the 2011-2012 academic year.

Former Patton/Bear House Residence Director Crystal Jones nominated Antario Jones for maintaining a standard of excellence in his service as an RA.

“I can attest Antario assumed the position with confidence and a positive attitude to a high degree. He quickly became known on staff as someone who epitomizes a true servant leader and someone who willing to step up in the face of adversity,” wrote Crystal Jones.

While she prepared the residence hall to host conferences for the summer and resident assistants were studying for final exams, a freshman did not check out of a room properly, leaving it dirt and damaged. She planned to have a 11 RAs clean the room together but was suprised when Antario Jones took it upon himself to clean the room, dispose of trash and note damaged to the furniture set.

“He acted selflessly to help benefit and serve the entire staff. This is only one example of many and demonstrates the type of RA Antario continually strives to be. Antario works hard, never slacking. Throughout the year, especially during the closing of the residence hall during the month of May, he always asked how he could assist the residents and the staff. Antario was, and continues to be, known as a light of sunshine because he always knew how to make someone’s day a little brighter. He sets a positive example for everyone, not just for the students within his residence hall at Belmont University,” she wrote.

 

The National Residence Hall Honorary, a national organization, exists to provide student leadership opportunities to college students. Each month, the Belmont University chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH) accepts nominations in several categories, including Resident Assistant, to recognize exceptional individuals and programs.  Nominations that win the at the campus level are submitted to the South Atlantic Affiliation of College and University Residence Halls (SAACURH) region and regional delegates are submitted to NACURH. Jones was chosen as the strongest nominations from the eight regions.

 

 

 

 

 

Belmont Road Piece Among PIAS Graphic Awards Winners

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The Printing Industry Association of the South Inc. (PIAS) announced Lithographics Inc. earned an Award of Excellence for the Belmont University Road Piece. The announcement was made June 25 at its annual convention in Destin, Fla. The PIAS Graphic Awards competition, held annually, is designed to recognize and appropriately honor those responsible for the creation, design and production of top-quality printed materials; those which have impact, appeal and effectiveness as sales/marketing, communications or educational medium.

Lithographic, the University’s printer, submitted the Road Piece on behalf of the Office of University Marketing and Special Initiatives, which designed the over-sized poster used to as promotional material for prospective students.

PIAS is a graphic arts trade association representing more than 500 member companies in their seven state region: Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Click here to read more

Murphree Has Article Published

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Dr. Steve Murphree (Biology) had an article published in the July/August 2012 issue of The Tennessee Conservationist magazine.  The article is titled  “Stinging Caterpillars.” Click here to read the magazine and article. This is the 18th article Murphree has written for this magazine.

Philosophy Professor’s Critique Receives National Attention

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Associate Professor of Philosophy Mark Anderson has received national media attention this academic year for his discovery of an author’s misappropriated material.

Last spring, Anderson said he was comparing two books on Friedrich Nietzsche while researching for a lecture on the philosopher for his undergraduate course on Plato, Andrew Melville and Nietzsche. He read Curtis Cate’s Friedrich Nietzsche and Julian Young’s Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography concurrently, alternating chapters between the two books. It was then that Anderson said he noticed that Young appeared to borrow material from Cate’s text without quotation or proper attribution. He published the article “Telling the Same Story of Nietzsche’s Life” in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies in August 2011.

“I suspected [my article] would have impact because it is an important field of study, and [Young’s Friedrich Nietzsche] was a widely received publication coming from Cambridge, an important press,” Anderson said. His article was picked up by NewAPPS, a prominent art, politics, philosophy and science blog. The Chronicle of Higher Education published the article “When One Biographer ‘Borrows’ From Another, the Dispute Gets Philosophical” on July 2, and this week the same author wrote a Wall Street Journal blog post on Anderson’s findings.

“All of us here in the department have been following this discussion for several months. Mark is an internationally recognized scholar on the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and his work in this area is highly respected,” said Philosophy Department Chair Ronnie Littlejohn. “As you can see in [The Chronicle of Higher Education], even philosophers such as Ray Monk, who is the world’s leading biographer of Wittgenstein and Russell, two other great philosophers, has heralded Mark’s analysis and lined up to support his work.  We are very fortunate to have a scholar of Mark’s capabilities at Belmont.”

Earlier this month Young reached out to Anderson and asked the professor to let the author know what other passages in his biography mirrored Cate’s book.

“He doesn’t deny it,” Anderson said. “He said he was sloppy and forgot that those notes were from the other book. He even tried to give other explanations of what happened.”

He spoke to his class about the use of “misappropriated materials” and has sent article links to the students that showed interest. Moving forward, Anderson said he advises students and aspiring authors to tread lightly when researching and writing.

“If it’s plagiarism, just don’t plagiarize. If it’s sloppiness or not just knowing how to write a biography, write the kind of works that you are capable of writing. Keep track of your notes and make sure everything you write is connected to a source.”

Olympic Games Become Classroom for Belmont Student

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Belmont student Colleen Arends attended two women’s soccer matches in London at the 2012 Olympics (Great Britain versus New Zealand and Brazil versus Cameroon). She also has learned to play cricket, watched the Olympic torch relay and met the Great Britain volleyball team and Malayasian cycling team.

A Belmont student will go to tracks, courts and fields in London this summer to study sport performance as it relates to the world’s best athletes as they compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Last week, Colleen Arends left Nashville for London where she is taking the class Olympic Games: Sport Performance, History and Administrations through the Cooperative Center for Study Abroad (CCSA). Northern Kentucky University clinical exercise scientist Renee Jeffreys is teaching the course, which focuses on training principles and conditioning for elite performance, as well as factors that affect performance in specific sports. Olympic history and what is required to conduct the Olympic Games will also be briefly discussed. The class will visit Olympic venues, various sport governing bodies and sport facilities in and around London.

“The way the course is set up, each of us have to choose a different sport within the Olympics; compile a presentation on anaerobic, vital oxygen intake max for most athletes, average BMI; focus on how athletes train and how their muscle tone and cardiovascular tone are different between sports; and how different sports require different physiological adaptions through the body,” said Arends, a junior from St. Louis, Mo., studying exercise science. She also is required to keep an exercise journal of studios and group exercise classes she visit in London as well as running and walking routes.

Belmont students Ellen Linam and Colleen Arends outside of Olympic Park.

Field trips for the Olympic Games classes include touring Olympic venues, taking cricket lessons, watching the Olympic torch relay and volunteering at the Olympics marathon and a cycling event. The students must purchase tickets on their own to the actual Olympic events.

The class is offered through CCSA, a consortium of more than two dozen universities that do study abroad programs together, for which Belmont is the host institution. Seventeen of the 205 students in the CCSA London program are from Belmont and all are staying at Kings College, said CCSA Public Relations Specialist Joe Woolley. Other courses throughout the five-week program include art history, audio engineering, English, creative writing, theater, psychology, education and criminal justice, he said.

Click here to read Jeffreys’ blog on the Olympic Games class.

Belmont Physics Society Recognized at Video Gaming Conference

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At the Games For Change 2012 industry conference in June, Leslie Redd and Yasser Malaik of Valve Software, an entertainment software and technology company, made explicit reference to an article by Belmont University physics professor Dr. Scott Hawley.  The article described the convocation in April hosted by Belmont’s Society of Physics Students (SPS), in conjunction with Valve’s education initiative regarding the “Portal 2” video game and teachwithportals.com website.

The presenters were particularly impressed by Belmont senior Ben Heacock’s calculation of the time it would take one of the game elements to set your hair on fire (2.79 ms), using radiative transfer calculations.  A video of the SPS’s convocation event “Physics of Portal 2” has recently been added to Belmont’s YouTube channel.   Valve Software will begin publishing physics lessons by Hawley in early July.

Click here to view video of the Games For Change Talk. See times 07:23 to 08:50 into the video. Click here to view video of “Physics of Portal 2” convo on Belmont’s YouTube channel.

 

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