Monika Banach, a junior at Belmont University studying nursing, was awarded the prestigious Promise of Nursing Scholarship. The Promise of Nursing scholarship is a competitive program and only awarded to 150 nursing students nationwide.
Belmont Mixers Win Competition
Belmont student audio engineers fared well at the recent “Spring Mixer” Annual Mixing Competition, hosted by the Nashville chapter of the Audio Engineering Society.
For the second year in a row, a Belmont team placed first in the competition. A second team of Belmont students placed third in the competition.
Screaming guitars take their place beside fiddles in Music City
The wave of emerging non-country acts here is, in many ways, a product of Nashville’s growth. Downtown and neighborhood revitalization has created more places for bands to play, music industry programs at Belmont University and Middle Tennessee State University have become magnets for talent and fans, the city is more affordable than other music centers, and its reputation as a haven for songwriters makes it attractive to writers from all genres. – Read the whole Associated Press story at HoustonChronicle.com. [Pictured: Belmont student Graham Fitzpenn, a member of the rock band Roy G Biv, winner of the Pop/Rock Showcase, performing at Belmont’s annual Best of the Best show. Click to enlarge.]
Belmont Hosts Blog Conference – Sidelines
Citizen journalists of the Internet will meet next week for a three-day, multi-part conference on Web logging, commonly known as “blogging,” hosted by Belmont University and the Media Bloggers Association. “BlogNashville will bring many of the new medium’s top practitioners and thinkers to one place to discuss the current and future of blogging,” says Bill Hobbs, Belmont’s public relations specialist and blogging coach in the school’s office of marketing and communications.
“Congress must consider the longer view on college student aid”
By the end of this decade, the number of students academically prepared for college will grow by 14%. Eight out of 10 of these new students will come from disadvantaged backgrounds, 20% will come from families living in poverty, and many will be the first in their family to attend college. If Congress does not recommit itself to full funding of the federal investment in student aid, many of these students may not get to college or, if they do, may not be able to stay there. – Belmont University President Robert Fisher, in an op-ed published in today’s Tennessean.
Belmont Scholarship and Awards Day Winners
On Wed., April 27, Belmont University honored several students at the annual Scholarship and Awards Day ceremony. This year’s award winners included:
The Williams-Murray First Year Writing Award – Rachel E. Pickett and Joshua Ingram
The Alfred Leland Crabb Writing Award – Tom Appel and Candace Campbell
The Stacy Awalt Writing Award – Travis Holloway, Eric Wilkey, Joshua Wolak and Kyle Zwiep
The John Williams Heart of Belmont Award – Kara Froula
The First Year University Leadership Award
The Finalists – Ashley Strosnider and Cara Pollock
The Recipient – Melanie Murphy
The Second Year University Leadership Award
The Finalists – Nathan Potter and Sarah Snyder
The Recipient – Molly Reed
The Third Year University Leadership Award
The Finalists – Brad Walker, Dan Oliver and Jenny Conkle
The Recipient – McKinley Belcher
The Fourth Year University Leadership Award
The Finalists – David Mareira, Fallon Nell, Nick Otis and Ryan Greenawalt
The Recipient – Joshua Schlessman
“Interactivity Is the Future of News”
Al Tompkins, Broadcast/Online Group Leader at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, urged Belmont University journalism students to prepare for an interactive, multi-media world rather than for a career in just print or broadcasting, during a class Tuesday at which Tompkins was a guest lecturer. “Interactivity is the future of news,” said Tompkins, a former news director at Nashville’s WSMV Channel 4 and a member of the board of advisors for Belmont’s New Century Journalism Program.
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Business Ethics Names Student Advisory Board
The Center for Business Ethics has created a student advisory board to help students deal with ethical issues through conferences, workshops, speakers and other resources. Founding members of the Business Ethics Center Student Advisory Board met on April 6 to identify ethics issues and formulate activities to meet student needs. Students named to the board are: Angela Calhoun, Tim Wildsmith, Meredith Kendall, Derek Colby, Calle Griffith and Nathan Potter.
Belmont West Students Win Big at TV Taping
Belmont West students Kelsey Patterson, Lauren Garner and Katy Henneman discovered that doing your homework can have surprising results. When they attended a taping of The Ellen DeGeneres Show at the NBC Studios, they had no idea how lucky they would be. Once the taping began, they discovered it was DeGeneres’ 300th show, and as members of the studio audience they each received two round trip airline tickets on Song Airlines; a $300 Westin Hotel stay; Cold Stone Creamery gift certificates; and the Miss Congeniality Deluxe Box Set that included a DVD of the movie, the soundtrack to Miss Congeniality 2 and a ticket to see the movie starring Sandra Bullock, who was a guest on the show that day. (Two other Belmont West students, Kerry Ware and Emily Burdette, did their internships at The Ellen DeGeneres Show.)
The students were completing one of the requirements of “The Entertainment Industry in L.A.,” a course designed and taught by Belmont West Faculty-in-Residence, James I. Elliott.
“In addition to the lectures I give on film and television production and guest speakers from the industry, I include a variety of assignments including attending television tapings, movies and field trips to movie studios and museums,” Elliot said. “This just goes to show it pays to do your homework!”
Other television show tapings attended by Belmont West students this semester include The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC), Reba (WB), That 70’s Show (FOX), Joey (NBC) and All of Us (UPN).
