Dr. Jeff Cornwall, the Massey chair of Entrepreneurship, recently had his textbook Bootstrapping translated into Chinese. Click here for more information.
Pharmacy Receives $10,000 from Walgreens
The School of Pharmacy has received $10,000 from the Walgreens corporation as part of its national effort to increase diversity among student pharmacists. Of these funds, $2,000 are in the form of a student scholarship, with the remainder supporting institutional outreach and awareness efforts.
Steil, Hudgens Published in Pharmacy Times
Dr. Condit Steil, professor and chair of pharmacy practice, and Dr. Julie Hudgens, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, were recently published in the journal Pharmacy Times. Their article is titled, “The Role of Incretin-mimetic (GGLP-1) Therapy in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.”
Webster Elected to Chair of Chemistry Section in AACP
Dr. Andrew Webster, chair of pharmaceutical sciences, has been elected as the 2010-2011 Chair of the Chemistry Section of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. This election to national office engages Webster in a multi-year commitment to service to the profession and to further leadership skills development through participation at a series of training retreats.
School of Nursing Awards Foundation Scholarships
Belmont School of Nursing is pleased to announce the 2010 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: New Careers in Nursing scholarship recipients. Ten students were recently selected to receive this award that will enable them to pursue a second degree in nursing. The New Careers in Nursing is a program designed to help alleviate the nursing shortage and increase the diversity of the nursing workforce. Through grants to schools of nursing, the program provides scholarships in the amount of $10,000 each to college graduates without nursing degrees who are enrolled in an accelerated baccalaureate nursing program. Funding from the grant has resulted in increased student enrollment with the creation of a new spring cohort beginning in January 2010 and twice yearly admissions for the Belmont School of Nursing Accelerated Program. Award preference is given to students from groups underrepresented in nursing or from disadvantaged backgrounds. Of the accelerated students beginning their program of study in January 2010, 23 percent are male, and 33 percent come from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. In comparison, national nursing workforce data indicate that men comprise only 5.8 percent of the American nursing workforce and racial/ethnic minorities comprise only 10.7 percent. Grant funding will be used by schools to help leverage support for new faculty resources and provide mentoring and leadership development resources to ensure successful program completion by scholarship recipients.
Byrne Encyclopedia Named ALA’s 2009 Booklist Editor’s Choice
Booklist, publication of the American Library Association, has named The Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics and Plagues, edited by Honors Program Professor Joe Byrne, an “Editor’s Choice” for 2009, noting “…notable for authoritative content on a topic of broad appeal, [it] is highly recommended.” This places it among the top 23 references works reviewed by Booklist this past year. Typically they review over 60,000 books and publish 8,000 reviews of recommended works; in 2009, only 185 were listed as “Editor’s Choice.” Byrne worked with associate editors from Yale, UCLA, Vanderbilt and Indiana University along with 100 authors from across the globe. These included Belmont Professors Devon Boan of the Honors Program, and biologists Nick Ragsdale and Steve Murphree. Contributing editorially were Honors students Beth and Becky Repasky, Sarah Bennett, and Beth Schriner. Byrne is currently writing The Encyclopedia of the Black Death for ABC-CLIO and a book in the seven-volume medical history series Health and Medicine in Daily Life, of which he is the editor for Greenwood Press.
Steve Ballmer Autographs Macbook Pro for Belmont Student
Twelve Belmont students attended breakfast with Microsoft Chairman Steve Ballmer last Wednesday–and one took home a unique memento of the experience. Sponsored by the Nashville Technology Council (NTC) and held on the campus of Trevecca University, the breakfast is an annual event, held as an opportunity for NTC members to find out the direction the organization is taking in the coming year, to network with other members and to hear from world class speakers. This year’s crowd of around 900 included attendees ranging from CEOs and CIOs to project managers and developers to educators and students.
Before his prepared remarks, Ballmer took time to shake hands with each of the students. Belmont sophomore Jordan Bennett took the opportunity to ask Ballmer to autograph an unusual keepsake–his Apple Macintosh Macbook Pro. Ballmer rose to the occasion, signing his name right over the top of the Apple logo. Above his signature, he added the comment, “Need a new one?” The moment was caught on video and is circulating on YouTube with over 350,000 views to date. Click here to watch the video.
Bennett plans to keep his signed Macintosh for a long time. “Along with my Belmont diploma, my ‘Steve Ballmer’ experience through the Nashville Technology Council will definitely be on my resume… I am very confident of my future and ability to get my foot in the door with Microsoft–a company that I intend to work for very soon. I’m also in the market for a new laptop. I’ll let you know which Steve comes through!”
Jellissen Book Review Published
Dr. Susan Jellissen, assistant professor of political science, recently had a book review published of Brian Jenkins’ Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?. The review appeared in Middle East Quarterly (Winter 2010, Vol. 17, No 1).
Math Faculty, Students Participate in Conference
Associate Professors of Math Andy Miller and Sarah Ann Stewart, along with students Alex Dalrymple and Luke Horsley, attended the national Joint Mathematics Meetings of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and The American Mathematical Society (AMS) in San Francisco, CA January 13-16. Alex and Luke presented a poster titled “Infectious Disease Modeling with Contact Networks” at the Undergraduate Poster Session. Miller presented a talk on “Service Learning in Support of Financial Literacy.” Stewart served on the panel “How to Interview for a Job in the Mathematical Sciences” and moderated the Open Forum of the Young Mathematicians Network.
Searcy Receives “Woman of Achievement” Honor
Tennessee State University will recognize Joyce Espy Searcy at their annual Women of Legend and Merit Awards on Thurs., March 18. Searcy, Belmont’s new Director of Community Relations, will be recognized for her work in the area of community service. The awards were established in conjunction with the TSU Women’s Center. To read an article in the Tennessean with the complete list of award recipients, click here.
Searcy will also give the commencement address at the Hi-Tech Institute on Fri., Jan. 29.
