Marketa Marvanova (Pharmaceutical Sciences) and Beth Hallmark (Nursing) recently attended the Simulation User Network (SUN) annual meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. These two collaborative innovators in cross-discipline health care education attended discussions on new equipment for simulations, simulation discussion groups, sharing ideas and experiences with simulation in health care education (nursing, medicine, pharmacy, physician assistant), with hands on programming workshops.
Hobson Published in Pharmacy Teaching Newsletter
Eric Hobson (Pharmacy Practice) had an article titled “Follow Up on Classroom Assessment Techniques” published in the current American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Academy Teaching and Learning Newsletter. The article offers a starting point for discussion of formative assessment strategies and resources that support their use in clinical and didactic education.
Women’s Golfers Win A-Sun Year-End Honors
Belmont junior golfer Lorie Warren was named Atlantic Sun Conference Women’s Golf Player of the Year Tuesday as voted on by the conference’s head coaches and media relations directors. She was also a unanimous choice for the All-Atlantic Sun first team. In addition to Warren’s honors, freshman Lauren Spurlock was named to the Atlantic Sun All-Freshman team. Click here for more information.
Magruder Published in Physics Journal
Dr. Robert Magruder, chair of the Chemistry and Physics department, has had the following paper published in the Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 103: “Pulsed infrared laser annealing of gold nanoparticles embedded in a silica matrix” with A. Halabica, J.C. Idrobo, S. T. Pantelides, R. H. Magruder, III, S. J. Pennycook and R. F. Haglund.
Hare Receives NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
Belmont University men’s basketball player Justin Hare has been awarded a coveted educational grant through the NCAA postgraduate scholarship program. The Cleveland, Tenn. native was one of 58 student-athletes who participated in NCAA winter sports selected as a 2007-08 Postgraduate Scholarship Award winner. Hare was one of only three NCAA Division-I men’s basketball players chosen to receive a postgraduate scholarship, joining Drew Streicher of Butler University and Jack Leasure of Coastal Carolina University. Twenty-nine male and 29 female student-athletes from Divisions I, II and III were selected from a deep and distinguished candidate pool. Each will receive a one-time, nonrenewable grant of $7,500. Click here to read the full story.
Belmont to Hold Spring 2008 Commencement
Belmont University will hold its spring 2008 commencement with two separate ceremonies. Belmont graduate students will be honored Fri., May 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Massey Concert Hall, while undergraduates will receive their degrees on Sat., May 10 at 10 a.m. in the Curb Event Center.
Belmont will celebrate the graduation of a total of 661 students, marking the largest graduation in the university’s history to date. During the graduation ceremonies, 551 undergraduate, 98 master’s and 12 doctoral degrees will be conferred. Tickets, which have been distributed to the graduating students, will be required for guests wishing to attend either event.
Dr. Robert C. Fisher, president of the University, will preside over both events and present the graduates with their degrees as well as provide commencement remarks.
Lake to Serve as Chaplain at Oxbridge
Dr. Todd Lake, vice president for spiritual development, will be serving as an institute chaplain for Oxbridge 2008, a two-week interdisciplinary conference that serves as a focal point of the C.S. Lewis Foundation’s efforts to advance a renaissance of Christian scholarship and artistic expression among faculty. Dr. Joy Jordan-Lake, a part-time instructor at Belmont, will also be leading several writing sessions at the conference.
Pharmacy Faculty, Library Staff to Present at July Convention
Six faculty in the Belmont University School of Pharmacy in collaboration with Bunch Library staff and faculty at South University School of Pharmacy have just received notification of acceptance of peer reviewed (3) and school representative (2) abstracts for poster presentations at the 2008 annual American Association of Schools of Pharmacy meeting this July. Additionally, Steven Stodghill (Pharmaceutical Sciences) will be presenting at the meeting. He has been invited to speak at the special session sponsored by the Curriculum Special Interest Group, and his topic will be “Paper to Pixel – Migrating Curricular Mapping to an On-Line Portfolio.”
Two posters will carry the Belmont banner in the school poster presentations. The first, by Stodghill and Julie Rafferty (Pharmacy Practice) is titled “Strong Foundation + 4 Pillars = Belmont University’s Pharmacy Plus™ Curriculum” and provides an outline of the Belmont School of Pharmacy’s innovative curriculum. The second school poster, by Cathy Turner (Pharmaceutical Sciences) and Marketa Marvanova (Pharmaceutical Sciences), is titled “Missions and Public Health Intersect as a School of Pharmacy Reflects Its University” and explores how the School of Pharmacy honors the Belmont commitment to servant leadership.
In the peer reviewed category, Turner and Jenny Rushing (Bunch Library) have authored “Aligning a Pharmacy School Curriculum with University Learning Goals: Information Literacy for Life-Long Learning.” Rafferty and Salvatore Giorgianni (Pharmacy Practice) have a peer reviewed abstract titled “Development and Validation of an Experiential Education Site Evaluation Model” that covers the process of developing and validation of a quality assurance evaluative rubric for off campus experiential sites.
Finally, in a collaboration with South University School of Pharmacy, Turner has worked with Andrea L. McKeever (South University) to produce “Strategies for Library Collection Development for Schools of Pharmacy.”
Belmont Launches Town Hall Presidential Debate Web Site
Belmont University officially launched the online home for the 2008 Town Hall Presidential Debate at at www.belmontdebate08.com. The debate will be held in the Curb Event Center on the Belmont campus on Tues., Oct. 7.
The site features news, programming information and campus updates for the Belmont community, neighbors and up-to-3,000 members of media who are expected on campus for the debate. The site will be updated regularly leading up to the debate and throughout the 2008-09 academic year as Belmont has planned special academic programming centered around the university’s role as the debate host site.
The site was created by local Nashville company, centre{source}, a full-service Interactive Strategy firm, delivering results in strategy, planning and execution of Internet-related initiatives. With clients worldwide and centrally located in Nashville, centre{source} provides a wealth of expertise and web design solutions to strategically harness the power of today’s online opportunities. The company’s point person for creating the site for Belmont is Director of Technology Chip Hayner, a 2004 Belmont graduate. More about the firm can be found on its Web site: www.centresource.com
Alumna to Perform in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at TPAC
Belmont alumna Tiffini Dodson (’04) will play Mary Magdalene in an upcoming production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC). Dodson, who was born and raised in Smyrna, Tennessee, joined the cast of this production in 2006. Other credits include regional productions of Oklahoma!, Crazy for You, Pippin and Anything Goes. A groundbreaking theatrical masterpiece by legendary writing team Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Jesus Christ Superstar is coming to the TPAC’s Andrew Jackson Hall May 30-31 for three performances.
