The School of Pharmacy Class of 2012 continues the Belmont tradition of service to those in need. On Monday, class representatives Tyler Ammarell, Zac Renfro and Paul Nasri provided the wheels and the brawn needed to deliver more than 600 pounds of canned goods to Second Harvest Food Bank.
Pharmacy Students Contribute to Food Drive
Belmont Partners with WOW to ‘Feed My Starving Children’
In the spirit of the Christmas season, Belmont University is partnering Dec. 10 with the top companies in Christian music to sponsor a “food packaging event” benefitting non-profit hunger-relief organization, Feed My Starving Children (FMSC). Minnesota-based FMSC delivers food around the world to malnourished children in schools, orphanages, refugee camps and hospitals.
EMI Christian Music Group, Provident Music Group and Word Entertainment have long collaborated in the marketing and distribution of annual WOW compilation projects, which feature many of the top current songs in Christian music. This year the companies extend their alliance through a charitable event called “WOW Shares.” Hundreds of employees from each of the three companies, along with Belmont University employees and students, have signed up to work in shifts packing specially formulated meals in assembly-line fashion. Each FMSC meal provides the key nutrients a child needs to survive and thrive.
Individuals interested in volunteering should click here to learn more. Packing sessions, each beginning with a 10 minute overview of FMSC’s work around the world, will take place at the following times on Wed., Dec. 10 in the Curb Event Center on Belmont’s Campus:
Packing Session No. 1: 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Packing Session No. 2: 1-3 p.m.
Packing Session No. 3: 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Packing Session No. 4: 6-8 p.m.
Over the Noon-1 p.m. lunch break, Brandon Heath (Reunion Records/Provident Music Group), Francesca Battistelli (Word Entertainment) and Josh Wilson (Sparrow/EMI CMG Label Group) will perform a concert for volunteers.
Volleyball Wins A-Sun Title, Begins NCAA Tournament Dec. 5
Belmont volleyball will begin its second NCAA Tournament in three years in Los Angeles, Calif., to play the No. 7 seed Hawaii on Fri., Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. CST from the campus of Southern California.
The Bruins are coming off their second Atlantic Sun Conference title in three years after sweeping Lipscomb in the conference tournament final. At 25-7, the Bruins hold the most victories in program history during the Division I era and are riding a program-best 11-straight victories.
“The girls are thrilled to be going out west and flying somewhere. We certainly look forward to playing a great team in Hawaii,” Head Coach Deane Webb said at the team’s selection show watch party on Sunday night. Click here to read more on this story.
Student Chemists Enter Video Challenge
The Belmont chapter of Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society (SAACS) has entered a video in the American Chemical Society Presidential Video Challenge. The Challenge seeks to get students to produce a short video with the theme “Putting a Human Face on Chemistry” in an effort to educate elementary and middle school students about chemists the importance of chemistry in life. Assistant Professors Dr. Alison Moore and Dr. Rachel Rigsby are the faculty advisors for Belmont’s SAACS chapter. Click here to view the video entry.
Belmont Offers Christmas Gift to Nashville: Three Free Concerts
Belmont University announces a Christmas gift to the Nashville community with three free concerts that are open to the public, as well as the nationally televised airing of annual holiday music spectacular “Christmas at Belmont.”
The first concert will be on Fri., Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. with the Nashville Children’s Choir’s annual holiday concert at Belmont Heights Baptist Church. The Belmont Camerata Musicale will then offer its annual presentation of “A Camerata Christmas,” including a concert of holiday chamber music and a traditional holiday folk music sing-along on Mon., Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the historic Belmont Mansion on the university campus.
The Christmas Eve Carillon Concert concludes the series on Wed., Dec. 24 at 2 p.m. at the campus Bell Tower, located just off the corner of Belmont Blvd. and Portland Ave. The concert features traditional Christmas music played on the tower’s 42-bell carillon.
Of course, the holiday wouldn’t be complete without the annual “Christmas at Belmont” special. An encore presentation will be shown of last year’s performance, which featured 400 students and faculty from the School of Music and was hosted by alumna and “American Idol” finalist Melinda Doolittle. The concert was taped live in the Schermerhorn Symphony Center by Nashville Public Television (NPT). The show is scheduled to air nationally on Dec. 23 at 9 p.m. Central. Check local listings for additional air times.
Service Corp Featured in Who’s Who
Belmont Service Corp, the university’s largest student organization, will be highlighted in an upcoming issue of Who’s Who magazine. The article focuses on the group’s recent, successful Skyline Party event, which raised $700 for Nashville Gilda’s Club and Mario Lemieux Foundation. Click here to read the full story.
Physics Students Attend Conference, Lead Convo
Students from the newly-formed Society of Physics Students (SPS) went on a trip to Fermilab, the Fermi National Accelerator Facility, outside of Chicago Nov. 7-9. Students Caitlin Smith, Kayla LaFrance, Sarah-Ann Claiborne, Caleb Kinch and Stephen Murphree, along with Physics faculty Christian Thomas, Stephen Robinson and Scott Hawley, attended the Quadrennial Congress of Sigma Pi Sigma, the national honor society for physics students. As this was the first trip for this new SPS group, and the first involvement in the congress, the trip was significant as a way of connecting students with the greater physics community. The group attended talks and workshops on the topic of “scientific citizenship,” including a keynote address by Nobel laureate Leon Lederman.
After returning from their trip, SPS members put the finishing touches on their planned convocation event, “Belmont Mythbusters: The Dark Knight Edition,” in which they described the physics behind stunts in the popular movie. The academic lecture convocation was presented on Nov. 17 to a crowd of more than 80 people.
Debate Team Garners Awards at Campus Tournaments
This past weekend Belmont’s Speech and Debate team hosted its annual tournament, the Tennessee Porch Swing, on campus. This “swing” tournament was comprised of two individual events tournaments (one hosted by Belmont and another by Carson-Newman College) as well as a debate tournament. Twenty universities were in attendance stretching from Texas and Florida to Pennsylvania. Team successes during the weekend were as follows:
Debate Open Division: George Shifflett & Caroline Tenenbaum, Quarter-Finalists; Tim Smith & Tyler Kimbro, Quarter-Finalists
Debate Novice Division: Sara Page & Paxton Williams, Quarter-Finalists; Sara Page, 3rd place overall speaker
Belmont Sponsored Individual Events Tournament
Extemporaneous Speaking: Sara Page, Top Novice
Prose Interpretation: Eric Schoen, 1st place & Top Novice
Informative Speaking: Chris Taylor, 6th place
Duo Interpretation: Meredith Day/Eric Schoen, 3rd place & Top Novice
Carson-Newman Sponsored Individual Events Tournament
Informative Speaking: Sara Page, 6th place
Duo Interpretation: Meredith Day/Eric Schoen, 1st place & Top Novice
Extemporaneous Speaking: Sara Page, 3rd place & Top Novice
Poetry Interpretation: Eric Schoen, 1st place & Top Novice
Prose Interpretation: Meredith Day, 4th place; Eric Schoen, 2nd place & Top Novice
Currans Land Roles in Florence Musical
Two married Belmont students studying abroad this semester are taking part in an Italian musical. The students, Noah and Daira Curran, have received a leading role and a directing job in the musical in Florence, Italy.
Born in Ohio, Noah is a senior international business major, and Daira is a junior commercial voice major originally from Massachusetts.
Health Services, Nursing Give Flu Shots in Edgehill
Belmont University Health Services and the School of Nursing teamed up again this year to offer free flu shots at a clinic in Edgehill. Students, faculty and staff all volunteered their time to give shots at the clinic at Greater Bethel Church and the I.W. Gernert Towers. Those clinics, combined with the number of vaccines given on campus, made for a record year for Health Services with approximately 750 individuals receiving a flu shot from Belmont.
