Belmont University has scheduled several Women’s History Month events during the month of March, including a musical performance, an exhibit of art by women artists, a discussion of the role of sexuality in pop-music marketing, and an address by former Secretary of Energy and current Fisk University President Hazel O’Leary, and a discussion of women in the computing industry.
Yandell to Give Keynote Address
Dr. Lonnie R. Yandell, Professor of Psychology at Belmont University has been chosen to deliver the W. Harold Moon Invited keynote address at the 17th Southeastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology to be held February 25-26 in Atlanta. The title of his talk is “Learning to Teach Research: What Students Have Taught Me About Teaching Research.”
Sturgis’ Paper Honored
Amy Sturgis, adjunct instructor of liberal studies at Belmont University, was nominated for the International One Ring Celebration (ORC) Awards for her lecture, “Harry Potter is a Hobbit.” The presentation was nominated for “Best Tolkien Based Lecture or Paper Presented at an Academic Function.” Sturgis presented “Harry Potter is a Hobbit” at the Gathering of the Fellowship, a conference for admirers of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The article also appeared in CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society. It can also be read at HogwartsProfessor.com.
Honors for Belmont OT Professor
Professor Katherine Yvonne Brown in the School of Occupational Therapy has been nominated by Chicago State University’s School of Occupational Therapy to represent the College of Allied Health for their 2005 Outstanding Alumni Award.
Brown was also nominated for the National Coalition of 100 Black Women,Inc.’s, Metropolitan Nashville Chapter Davis-Galloway Empowerment Award. Brown also successfully chartered the Tennessee Black Occupational Therapy Caucus. This organization provides free memberships to students of African descent enrolled in Occupational Therapy and Occupational Therapy Assistant programs throughout the state of Tennessee.
Belmont Extends “Engaged Scholars” Program University-Wide;Program encourages students’ participation in active learning outside the classroom
Belmont University has approved the university-wide adoption of Engaged Scholars, a program designed to promote and recognize undergraduate students’ participation in forms of active learning that extend beyond the classroom.
The program draws upon the university’s long-standing commitment to active learning and to learning in settings outside the classroom. “Many universities have an array of co-curricular programs, including study abroad and service learning, but few encourage students to make deliberate connections among these programs or between these programs and their entire university education,” says Dr. David Julseth, Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Director of the Engaged Scholars Program. “Belmont’s program is distinctive in making these connections happen for the student.”
Hands on: Belmont opens student trading laboratory – Nashville Business Journal
In January, Belmont University’s Jack C. Massey School of Business began offering traditional portfolio management and finance classes in a very nontraditional setting – a simulated Wall Street-like trading floor. … The university’s intent is for upper-level economic, international business, accounting and finance students to use the room for hands-on experience. Gonas says other business students will have access to the room, provided classes are no larger than 15 students. “We’ll be simulating what professional asset managers and analysts do while enhancing our student’s education and resumes,” he says.
Al Smith, managing director of Nashville-based Morris & Smith Wealth Management, says he wishes he had that sort of experience when he was in college. Theory works well in the class room, but putting those lessons to work in real time in a realistic setting should give those students a leg up on their future competition. “I think it will give Belmont’s graduates a competitive edge,” Smith says. – Read the whole story online at the Nashville Business Journal’s website.
C.S. Lewis Academic Conference Adds Symphony Performance
A performance by the Nashville Symphony has been added as the climactic event of the C.S. Lewis academic conference coming to Belmont University this fall. The Past Watchful Dragons: Fantasy and Faith in the World of C.S. Lewis conference is scheduled for Nov. 3-5, 2005, at Belmont University and will examine the works of author C.S. Lewis and also author J.R.R. Tolkein.
Howard Shore’s The Lord of the Rings Symphony, a musical journey into the realm of Middle-Earth which Shore composed the symphony from about 30 hours of scores he composed for the popular Lord of the Rings movies. The symphony, in six movements, requires more than 200 musicians and singers and will be performed with images from the movies projected above the stage, at Belmont’s Curb Event Center on Saturday night at the conclusion of the conference.
Brad Paisley’s Homegrown Talent – The Washington Post
Paisley didn’t have Nashville ambitions, even after starting at West Liberty State College, 12 miles from Wheeling. … Fortunately, Jim Watson, Paisley’s student adviser at West Liberty, suggested he transfer to Nashville’s Belmont University, whose well-known music business program might better advance Paisley’s talent.
“It only took me walking into that studio they had, which was a good million-dollar facility,” Paisley recalls. “I would have been a fool not to go to a school that gives you credit for pretty much the things I needed to learn.” And a school that was perfect for networking, he adds. “I totally understood the fact that it was about who you know and who knew of you as well. I don’t think you can get everything based on who you know, but you can’t get anything until you do know the right people.”
Among Paisley’s fellow students were Frank Rogers (now his producer), Kelley Lovelace (a frequent songwriting partner, including on his first No. 1, “He Didn’t Have to Be”) and several of the musicians in his band. And Belmont is at the base of 16th Avenue, better known as Publisher’s Row, “the absolute place to be in country music,” Paisley says. “You could take classes and then walk to your internship.” – Read the whole story in The Washington Post.
Belmont’s Snyder Eyes Future in Military – Nashville City Paper
Jese Snyder’s job description is about to undergo a major overhaul. Right now, the Belmont senior is helping the Bruins fight for an Atlantic Sun regular season title. After graduation, he’ll be helping the United States fight its war on terror. From shooting treys to shooting assault rifles in a matter of months.
In a time when most college-aged Americans squirm at the notion of a military draft being reinstated, Snyder went and signed up for the Army. He’ll head to Fort Benning, Ga., June 7 for basic training. After that, it will be officer candidacy school (OCS) to jumpstart a career in military intelligence. … Between now and June, Snyder says he has one accomplishment left before his career at Belmont is complete — a trip to the NCAA tournament. For his part, the 6-3 Knoxville native is having his best season yet. He’s averaging 11.9 points per game while shooting 40 percent from behind the arc. – Read the whole story online at the Nashville City Paper.
Business and Faith Talk Draws Large Crowd
The Rev. Robert Sirico, co-founder of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, discussed the intersection of business and faith in talk at Belmont University attended by more than 250 people Tuesday night.
“I can think of no better speaker to bring together the missions of Belmont’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Center for Business Ethics than Fr. Sirico,” said Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship (pictured left to right with Dr. Patrick Raines, Dean of the College of Business, Fr. Sirico, and Dr. Harry Hollis, director of the Center for Business Ethics). “The mission of the Acton Institute is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles, which is consistent with what we are trying to pursue with our Centers here at Belmont.”
