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School of Pharmacy Students Featured in News Story

Students enrolled in the Pharmacy Communications and Counseling Course were featured on WTVF News Channel 5 as part a report on Tennessee’s prescription drug usage. Second-year pharmacy students Diane Akin and Tyler Ammarell were highlighted in the story during a role-play exercise for the class, and Dr. Sal Giorgianni was interviewed on how Belmont’s pharmacy students are trained to avoid duplication and error and rationalize costs of prescription and non-prescription medications. To see the story, click here.

Massey Student Crowned Miss Black Tennessee

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LaDonna Yvette Boyd, student in the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business, was crowned Miss Black Tennessee in a ceremony on Oct. 25 in Nashville. Boyd received the title, once held by television personality Oprah Winfrey, for her performance in the Miss Black Tennessee Scholarship Pageant. In addition to the title, Boyd received a $2,000 scholarship and will go on to compete in the Miss Black America competition in 2010.

IEBA Provides Scholarships for Curb College Students

IEBAInsidersView.jpgBelmont University announced today that the International Entertainment Buyers Association (IEBA) is funding new scholarship opportunities for students in the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. In addition to the Harry A. “Hap” Peebles/IEBA Scholarship Endowment established in 1998, IEBA has established three new endowed scholarships at Belmont: The J.P. Williams/IEBA Scholarship Endowment, The Don Romeo/IEBA Scholarship Endowment and the George Moffett/IEBA Scholarship Endowment. Collectively totaling more than $200,000, the IEBA scholarships will provide much needed financial support to Curb College students. Picture l-r in the photo are Clyde Rolston (CEMB), Tiffany Davis (IEBA), Barry Jeffrey (IEBA), Gil Cunningham (IEBA) and Harry Chapman (Development).
“IEBA is proud to support the next generation of music industry leaders while paying homage to those that have shaped live entertainment into the force that it is today,” said Tiffany Davis, executive director, IEBA. “We are so happy to partner with Belmont University through the Harry A. Peebles, Don Romeo, J.P. Williams and George Moffett Scholarships. Our goal is to nurture students to become thriving members of the entertainment community, and Belmont is a perfect partner.”
In addition to generous financial contributions, IEBA executives Barry Jeffrey of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment and Gil Cunningham of Neste Event Marketing recently shared their expertise on talent buying with Curb College students at a recent “Insider’s View” seminar.
Dr. Wesley Bulla, dean of the College of Entertainment and Music Business, expressed Belmont’s gratitude for the support, “We appreciate IEBA investing in the lives of the aspiring entertainment professionals at Belmont University and are grateful for our ongoing partnership.”

Belmont Launches Extensive ‘Be a Fan’ Campaign to Promote Basketball Season Ticket Sales

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Belmont%20Banner%20Ad_300x250.jpgWith the start of basketball season only weeks away, Belmont University has launched the most extensive marketing campaign in Athletics history to promote men’s and women’s basketball and sell season tickets. Numerous efforts are underway in the “Be a Fan” campaign to raise awareness of Belmont basketball. For the first time, all season ticket buyers will receive the “Bruin Edge,” a coupon book with an estimated $250 value, double the price of the ticket itself. Deals include discounts to numerous local hotels and restaurants as well as to entertainment venues like the Nashville Zoo and TPAC.
“While the ‘Bruin Edge’ certainly adds extraordinary value, it’s only one of a number of reasons fans should consider purchasing a season ticket to Bruin basketball,” said Pamela Johnson, director of university marketing and special initiatives. “Most importantly, the proceeds the university receives from season tickets go toward athletic scholarships, making those tickets an easy, affordable way to support Belmont’s fine student-athletes. Plus, anyone who’s ever attended a Bruins game will tell you that it’s hard to find a better night of competitive sports and family-oriented fun.”
MysteryGuest1beAFan.jpgIn addition to the “Bruin Edge” coupon book, the “Be a Fan” basketball campaign includes 10 billboards placed around Nashville, all featuring Belmont mascot Bruiser holding a mask of his own face. Similarly themed ads will soon begin running in Nashville’s City Paper and on the Belmont.edu Web site with numerous celebrities appearing with their own Bruiser masks as part of a season-long contest. Individuals will be asked to guess who is behind the mask in each monthly advertisement, Nov.-Feb. They can then turn in the official form with their guess at any Belmont home basketball game for a chance to win a getaway weekend for two to anywhere in the continental United States. The prize will be given away at the Bruins’ last home game on Feb. 27, 2010.

Avila Receives Leadership in Diversity Award

Social work alumnus Claudia Avila (’03) was recently named the recipient of the 2009 Multicultural Council Award for Leadership in Diversity. It comes from the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD). She will go to Washington D.C. on Nov. 10 to accept the award.

Biles Presents at Math Conference

Dr. Daniel Biles, associate professor of mathematics, gave a presentation at the 29th Annual Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference on Differential Equations at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia on Oct. 17. The title of his talk was “Existence of Solutions for Singular Functional Differential Equations with Upper and Lower Solutions.”

CEMB Holds First Entertainment Law Clinic

Legalclinic.jpgOn Oct. 7 the College of Entertainment and Music Business successfully held its first Entertainment Law Clinic in partnership with the Tennessee Bar Association and Tennessee Volunteer Lawyers and Professionals for the Arts. The clinic was held to teach professionalism and the importance of receiving legal counsel in the arts, while providing cost-free legal help for Belmont students. Nearly 20students had the opportunity to meet with volunteer attorneys who answered arts/entertainment business related legal questions. Pictured from left to right: Casey Gill Summar, director of TN Volunteer Lawyers & Professionals for the Arts; Chris Vlahos, chair of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Entertainment & Sports Law Section; Cheryl L. Slay, faculty advisor for the clinic; and Provost Marcia McDonald.

Public Relations Student Writes for National Blog

Junior public relations major Sarah Norton is the author of a blog featured on the home page of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSSA). The blog discusses support of the Belmont PRSSA Chapter by the Nashville professional chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). October is celebrated in the society as PRSA/PRSSA Relationship Month. Nashville PRSA and Belmont PRSSA are recipients of a national award for Outstanding PRSA/PRSSA Relationship. Click here to read Norton’s blog.

Student-Created Web Site Successfully Supports Local Artists

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IndieBandHub.com, Full Vasquez_vargas Group.jpga site created by students in the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, recently completed its first project by supporting artist Rafeal Vasquez with everything from recording to manufacturing his new album.
Created as a class project in MBU 3630 (Record Company Operations), the site serves to encourage the local Nashville music scene and create opportunities for bands to communicate, share and assist each other’s efforts.
Rafeal Vasquez, an artist member of Indie Band Hub, performed Oct. 17 with the Mariachi Vargas at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Vasquez performed works from his upcoming CD produced by Indie Band Hub/Acklen Records. The album was recorded in Nashville’s historic RCA Studio B and ranges from flamenco guitar to classic Latin rock.

Belmont Tops Out New Health Science Building, Home for Schools of Pharmacy and Physical Therapy

Ceremony celebrates completion of $30 million building’s frame
toppingout.jpgNearly one year after breaking ground, Belmont University today celebrated the “topping out” its new $30 million health sciences building, which will serve as the future home for the School of Pharmacy, a Belmont program which welcomed its second class this fall. The building, which has an anticipated completion date of June 2010, will also house the School of Physical Therapy and will include expansion space for the Schools of Nursing and Occupational Therapy as well as the Social Work and Psychology programs. (Click here to view a photo of gallery of today’s event.)
Belmont President Dr. Bob Fisher said, “In addition to providing a time to celebrate and thank all the workers behind this immense project, a topping out is also a time to look forward to when this structure is complete. This building will be a model, 21st century academic facility, providing a venue where our students and faculty resources can intersect in service to help meet the medical needs of our community and our world.”
CampusPharmacy102009.jpgDesigned by Earl Swensson Associates with construction by R.C. Mathews, the 90,000-square-foot building will continue the innovation for which Belmont University has become known, containing top-notch laboratories. The facility will emphasize integrated, “hands on” experiential learning components including a licensed, state-of-the-art campus pharmacy which will provide services to students, faculty and staff while also serving as a training site for student pharmacists. Of special note are the simulation labs, where students and community clinicians can practice skills either on actors who simulate patients or on high tech manikins; this simulation suite is interdisciplinary, and programs will be encouraged to work in simulated scenarios that involve several health disciplines. In addition, faculty will have sophisticated research labs set aside for research studies, and students will be able to assist in these studies.
Dr. Jack Williams, dean of Belmont’s College of Health Sciences and Nursing, said, “Together with the Gordon E. Inman Center, this new structure will unite Belmont’s health science studies in one strategic location on campus. By completing and enhancing our health sciences complex, the university is providing inter-professional education opportunities for all of our health science students and preparing them to be both competent and compassionate practitioners.”