Susan Saunders, Assistant Director Human Resources recently passed the eighth in a series of examinations and obtained the Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) designation. In the employee benefits field, the oldest and most respected professional credential is the CEBS. The credentialing program was established in 1977 through a partnership of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans which is responsible for the overall administration of the program and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania which oversees academic content and standards.
Hutchins Sworn in as U.S. Citizen
Congratulations to Dr. Trevor Hutchins, Associate Dean, School of Education, who will be sworn in as a U.S. citizen Fri., January 28 in the federal building in Nashville. This will give Dr. Hutchins dual citizenship with his native Australia.
Please join us in extending our congratulations to Dr. Hutchins.
Sturgis Featured Guest at Conference
Adjunct instructor Dr. Amy Sturgis is a featured guest of honor at The One Ring conference, an annual gathering of fans and experts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. Sturgis teaches science fiction/fantasy studies and Native American studies. Sturgis’ talk at The One Ring conference was based on her paper, Harry Potter is a Hobbit: Rowling, Tolkien, and the Question of Readership.
Dr. Sturgis also has begun writing a regular column for the online magazine PopThought (www.popthought.com). Her first column, Nun of Your Business, considers the implications of the fame and recent theft of Nashville’s Mother Theresa-resembling NunBun.
Belmont Proposes to Rehab, Share Nashville’s Rose Park
Proposal includes more community service offerings in Edgehill community
Today’s Nashville City Paper reports on Belmont University’s proposal to Nashville’s Metro Parks Board to pay for the bulk of rehabbing E.S. Rose Park in the city’s Edgehill neighborhood to use it a venue for its NCAA Division I outdoor sports teams – baseball, softball, soccer and track – while also maintaining it as a community park and recreational facility. In addition, Belmont is proposing to expand its community-service offerings at the park’s community center. (Click map thumbnail at left.)
The Nashville City Paper Belmont Student Interns With Oprah
Rachel Smith, a junior at Belmont University, is interning this spring at Harpo Productions, the home of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Smith, a journalism major, is working in the publicity department at Harpo, the production company that Winfrey launched in 1986. Harpo – that’s Oprah spelled backwards – produces the Oprah Winfrey Show. Winfrey began her Chicago-based talk show in 1985, after previously working in radio and television in Baltimore and Nashville during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Anti-Violence Symposium at Belmont
Boston Rev. Ray Hammond, who lead a successful church-based effort in the early 1990s to reduce Boston’s crime and murder rate, told a gathering of leaders from Nashville churches and law enforcement and others at Belmont University Thursday how they did it.
Nashville Against Violence Symposium Today
The Goal: Reducing Nashville’s Rising Murder Rate
Belmont University is inviting the media to cover a very important anti-violence symposium on the Belmont campus at 2 p.m. today that is intended to lead to solutions to help reduce Nashville’s rising homicide rate. The Nashville Against Violence Symposium is set for 2-4 p.m., today, (Thursday, Jan. 19) in the Vince Gill Room at the Curb Event Center. The Rev. Ray Hammond, M.D., of Boston’s Bethel AME Church, founder of the Ten Point Coalition, which was successful in reducing Boston’s rising murder rate, will lead a conversation about possible ways to address the homicide problem in our city. The by-invitation event is open to the media.
“Body Farm” Founder To Speak at Belmont Tonight
Retired forensics expert to give annual Vaughn Science Lecture
Dr. Bill Bass, retired forensics expert known for his dead body “farm” at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, will deliver the annual Vaughn Science Lecture at Belmont University, 7 p.m. Thursday, in the Massey Boardroom. The Vaughn Science Lecture is held annually and serves to highlight scientific research and its ramifications to both undergraduate science majors and the more general audience of non-science students and faculty. Dr. Bass, professor emeritus and founder of the Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, has titled his talk “Your Bones Are Your ID.” A reception follows the lecture.
White-Hammond in the Sudan
The Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, who spoke at Belmont University Wednesday about the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan and about mentoring at-risk youth, recently lead a delegation to Sudan. National Public Radio had a report on the trip yesterday.
