Hispanic students receive scholarships during celebration at Belmont
For some, yesterday’s Fiesta Belmont in the heart of the university’s campus here was a chance to dance, shop and savor homemade enchiladas. For Heider Vargas, the celebration of Hispanic culture brought him $1,000 closer to his dream of becoming a physical therapist. … The scholarships announced yesterday during the festivities benefited participants of Hispanic Achievers, a YMCA mentoring program for Hispanic children, teens and adults. Hundreds of people, especially families with small children, took advantage of summer-like weather and roamed Belmont’s campus to listen to live Latin music, munch on tacos and nachos and hit pinatas… Read the whole story at Tennessean.com
Fiesta mixes fun, education – The Tennessean
Latin Street Fair & “Read With Me” Make Belmont Campus A Family Destination Today
Two events running simultaneously today at Belmont University make the Belmont campus the place to be for anyone seeking family-friendly entertainment: Fiesta Belmont and Read With Me. Fiesta Belmont: Nashville’s Latin Music Street Fair returns to Belmont University today (April 1). The street fair features a day-long schedule of continuous Latin music performances, Latin food vendors, kid’s activities, and Latin dance groups. Admission to the event, which is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the beautiful Belmont University campus, is free. For more information on Fiesta Belmont, click here. Read With Me, Belmont University’s 6th Annual Family Literacy Day, will take place, rain or shine, today (April 1) from 1-4 p.m. The event is aimed at children from pre-K through grade 6 and their families and is designed to celebrate the joys of reading. For more information, click here.
BET.com Executive to Speak at Belmont Monday
Retha Hill, vice president of content development at BET.com, the website of the BET cable television network, will discuss online storytelling and how BET uses the web, during an appearance at Belmont Monday, April 3, sponsored by the New Century Journalism program. Hill will speak at 10 a.m. Monday, April 3 in room 117 of the Leu Center for the Visual Arts. Members of the media are invited to attend.
Alpha Chi Member Elected Representative for Region
The Region III Convention of the Alpha Chi National Honor Scholarship
Society was held last weekend at the Hilton in Wilmington, N.C. Region
III includes Alabama, Washington, D.C., Florida, Georgia, Mississippi,
North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
At the convention, Lindsey K. Winger and Mary Elizabeth Hooker
represented Belmont and made musical presentations. Lindsey and Mary
also attended the Region III business meeting. At the meeting, Lindsey
was elected to be the Student Representative for Region III, one of
only seven such students nationally. Lindsey spoke about why she
wanted to represent the region at the national level, and she was voted
into office over two other candidates. One of Belmont’s Alpha Chi
members, Scott Goudeau, won one of nine Alfred H. Nolle Scholarships
for 2006 at the national convention in San Antonio.
• Alpha Chi is a national honor society that admits students from all
academic disciplines.
• Membership is limited to the top 10 percent of an institution’s
juniors and seniors.
• Invitation to membership comes only through an institutional
chapter. A college seeking a chapter must grant baccalaureate degrees
and be regionally accredited.
• Alpha Chi has 300 chapters, located in almost every state and in
Puerto Rico, and inducts more than 11,000 members annually.
Alpha Chi’s next Induction Ceremony will take place on Friday, April 21
at 10 a.m. in the Massey Board Room. The keynote speaker will be Dr.
Andi Stepnick, Chair of the Sociology Department and recipient of the
Presidential Faculty Achievement Award for 2005-06. A reception will
take place immediately following the ceremony. All faculty, staff and
students are invited to attend. Prospective members will be asked to
designate a “faculty sponsor” who has been important in that student’s
intellectual and personal growth, and the sponsor will be asked to
“pin” the student as he or she is received into membership.
Psychology Student Presents at Major Conference
Melinda Baker, a senior Psychology and English major, has been selected
to present her research completed with Dr. Michael Sullivan, assistant
professor of psychology, “The Use of Religion to Counter Morality
Salience Cues”, at the 18th annual meeting of the Association for
Psychological Science (APS). The meeting, held May 25-28 in New York
City, drew the most presentation submissions ever; more than 50 percent
more than last year’s conference.
The Association for Psychological Science provides scientists with
opportunities essential to achieving excellence in research. To this
end, APS holds the only national Annual Convention dedicated
exclusively to scientific exchange across all areas of psychology.
Belmont Speech Team Wins 1st at Nationals
By over 100 points, the Belmont University Speech and Debate Team won first place in speech team sweeps at the National Christian College Forsenics Invititional at John Brown University. The team won third place overall. The team competed March 18 – 20 in Siloam Springs, Ark. Here is the breakdown of results:
Debate:
Sarah Friederich, Renee Ryle and Price Rainer were quarterfinalists.
Prince Rainer won 9th place in novice speaker awards.
Speech:
McKinley Belcher – Faith Literature 3rd, Prose 3rd, Poetry 1st,
Dramatic Interpretation 1st, Overall Speaker Award – 1st
Kristen Taylor – Faith Literature 2nd, Prose 2nd, After Dinner
Speaking 1st, Poetry 3rd, Overall Speaker Award – 2nd
Belcher and Taylor – 4th place in Dramatic Duo Interpretation
Chasity Gunn – Persuasion 4th, Dramatic Interpretation 4th, Progam of
Oral Interpretation 2nd place, Overall Speaker Award – 4th
Tabitha Metcalf – After Dinner Speaking 3rd, Progam of Oral
Interpretation 6th, Overall Speaker Award – 6th
Reader’s Theatre – 2nd place (Belcher, Taylor, Gunn, Metcalf)
Cortni Woodard – Impromptu 7th
Jonathan Guenther – After Dinner Speaking – 6th
Melanie Bengston – Faith Literature (novice) 6th, Communication
Analysis 1st (novice) 3rd (open), Extemp 4th, Informative (novice)
1st. Overall Speaker Award (novice) – 3rd
Price Rainer – Faith Literature (novice) 4th, Extemperaneous 5th
New Insights on Managing Entrepreneurial Growth
Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, offers some insights from Eric Flamholtz, co-author of the book Growing Pains: Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm, on campus for a lecture yesterday, in this post at his weblog The Entrepreneurial Mind. Flamholtz is a professor at the Anderson School of Business at UCLA, where he teaches on managing entrepreneurial organizations; human resource management and organizational behavior. His Belmont lecture was part of the Moench Entrepreneurship Lecture Series.
Moser Publishes New Book on Music Copyright Law
Moser on Music Copyright, a new in-depth analysis of copyright law and its application to the music industry by David Moser, Associate Professor in the Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University, has been published by ArtistPro/Thomson Course Technology. Moser on Music Copyright provides musicians, songwriters, and others involved in the music industry with a thorough understanding of copyright law. Understanding copyright law is particularly relevant today, as Internet file sharing and other new ways of distributing music have made front-page news headlines.
Belmont Connections Program Schedule Announced
Belmont University’s College of Arts and Sciences has announced the schedule for Belmont Connections, a 10-day series of events at the end of the spring semester to recognize significant academic achievements and to explore questions and topics of compelling human interest through the presentation and celebration of outstanding student research, scholarship, guest speakers, and creative productions from all areas of academic study. The complete program schedule can be found here
Belmont Hosts 6th Annual Family Literacy Day April 1
Belmont University’s 6th Annual Family Literacy Day, will take place, rain or shine, on Saturday, April 1st from 1-4 p.m. The event, called Read With Me, is aimed at children from pre-K through grade 6 and their families and is designed to celebrate the joys of reading. The primary focus of the event is Reading Circles, hosted by various groups on campus such as the Black Student Alliance, the foreign language majors, the Student Athlete Council and numerous fraternities and sororities. Each group picks a different theme and has variety of books for all ages.
