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
Belmont Scholarship and Awards Day Winners
“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.
Meet the Press
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).
Belmont presents city’s largest Latin Music Street Fair – Nashville City Paper
Growing up in New Mexico, David Herrera, instructor of music business at Belmont, frequently enjoyed the pageantry and cuisine at various street fairs. Saturday Herrera, in conjunction with the Tennessee Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA’s Hispanic Achievers Program and several sponsors, will be spearheading Música Caliente, Nashville’s largest Latin Music Street Fair on the Belmont campus. Read the whole story online at NashvilleCityPaper.com.
Family Literacy Day Gives Hundreds of Books to Area Children
Read With Me, Belmont University’s Family Literacy Day event aimed at encouraging reading by children from pre-kindergarten through grade 6, was another big success for the five-year-old event, says organizer Tim Stewart, Coordinator of Community Service at Belmont. The event is one of many components of the Belmont Volunteers for Literacy program, along with ongoing tutoring programs at Carter-Lawrence School, Sevier Park Community Center and English tutoring with children and adults through the YMCA Hispanic Achievers program. It brings together several campus organizations such as the Black Student Alliance, the foreign language majors, the Student Athlete Council and numerous fraternities and sororities.
Belmont’s Ashley Robertson Wins European CMA Award
Ashley Robertson, a junior music business major at Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, has been awarded Favorite Female Vocalist of the Year by the European Country Music Association. Robertson will travel to Barcelona, Spain in June to accept the award. you can read more about her story, and how she has built a large fan base in Europe, in the Belmont Vision here.
Belmont Student Wins European CMA Award
Ashley Robertson, a junior music business major at Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, has been awarded Favorite Female Vocalist of the Year by the European Country Music Association. Robertson will travel to Barcelona, Spain in June to accept the award. you can read more about her story, and how she has built a large fan base in Europe, in the Belmont Vision here.
Belmont Schedules Earth Day Activities
Belmont University has scheduled a number of activities related to Earth Day, sponsored by the O.N.E. Club and students taking an Environmental Studies class.
