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Massey College of Business Dean Dr. Pat Raines Announces Retirement

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Massey College of Business Dean Dr. Pat Raines Announces Retirement

Dr. Pat Raines, dean of Belmont University’s Jack C. Massey College of Business, recently announced his retirement after 16 years of service to a college consistently noted by national publications for its excellence and lauded locally for its students, faculty and graduates as well as its strong executive education programs.

Belmont Provost Dr. Thomas Burns said, “For the past 16 years Belmont, and the Jack C. Massey College of Business, have benefited from the leadership, passion and commitment to excellence that has been fostered by Dean Pat Raines. We look forward to celebrating Dean Raines’ legacy of a strong curriculum, a positive community of cooperation and engagement and the enactment of our University mission to imbue our students with ‘disciplined intelligence, compassion, courage and faith.’”

Barbara Massey Rogers, daughter of the legendary entrepreneur who inspired the origin of the Jack C. Massey College of Business, added, “Regretfully, Jack Massey never met Dr. Patrick Raines. Under his outstanding leadership over the past 16 years, Dr. Raines has led the business school to national and international prominence and enabled the students of the school to graduate with a first-rate business education and with the incredible ability to seek excellent employment in the business world. The business school has been awarded many accolades for its achievements, and nothing has been more rewarding than to be recognized as one of the top business programs in the United States!”

During Dr. Raines tenure, the Jack C. Massey College of Business has received accolades for having some of the top business programs in the country by Princeton Review, BusinessWeek and Entrepreneurship magazine. The College of Business’s undergraduate enrollment has grown by more than 100%, and the graduate enrollment has increased by nearly 80%. He has also led the College’s efforts to successfully maintain AACSB accreditation for the Massey College of Business in both business and accounting. In addition, four new learning and professional development centers were added during Raines’ time at Belmont, all dedicated to the pursuit of professional excellence in specific areas of business: the Center for International Business, the Edward C. Kennedy Center for Business Ethics, the Thomas W. Beasley Institute for Free Enterprise and the Center for Entrepreneurship.

In a letter to his faculty announcing his retirement, Raines wrote, “I am extremely proud of our successes. Most importantly I am proud of the 35 excellent teacher scholars that we have hired in the last 16 years. Each has brought extraordinary expertise in their disciplines and have added immensely to the intellectual capital of the Massey College of Business… I will forever be grateful for your engagement, support and above all total dedication to our mission to educate entrepreneurial, ethical and socially responsible future business leaders that are prepared for the dynamic global economy.”

Raines’ work also led to the development of student-run businesses on campus and increased scholarships for students as well as provided endowed funds for three faculty chairs in the Massey College. In total, more than $18.2 million has been raised under his leadership. A frequent media expert on issues related to the economy and growth, Raines earned his bachelors, master’s and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Alabama, where he also played center on football teams coached by Paul ”Bear” Bryant.

A reception to honor Dean Raines will be held Tuesday, July 30 from 2-4 pm in the Massey Business Center Boardroom on Belmont’s campus. A national search is currently underway for the next dean of the Massey College of Business.

Alumna Vaus Makes Her Debut on the Grand Ole Opry

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Alumna Vaus Makes Her Debut on the Grand Ole Opry

Alumna Anna Vaus, the first-ever recipient of Miranda Lambert’s “Women Creators” scholarship at Belmont, recently made her debut on the Grand Ole Opry stage.

Recognized with Music Row’s DISCovery Award earlier this year, the 2018 graduate of Belmont’s songwriting program is signed with Black River Publishing and Creative Artists Agency and has opened for major country artists such as Lee Ann Womack, Jon Pardi, Old Dominion and Hunter Hayes.

Alumna Weisband Releases First Single

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Alumna Weisband Releases First Single

Emily Weisband, a 2015 alumna of Belmont’s songwriting program, recently released the first single of her career as an artist, “Identity Crisis.” At 26, Weisband is already a Grammy-winning songwriter known for co-writing “Thy Will” (Hilary Scott and The Scott Family). Additional writing credits span multiple genres including the pop world with BTS and Halsey, the country genre with cuts from Dan + Shay, Tim, McGraw and Faith Hill, as well as Christian music with recordings by Natalie Grant and Danny Gokey.

The launch of her solo career was recently featured in articles in Music Row and Billboard.

Ko’s Research Featured on National Trust for Historic Preservation Website

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Ko’s Research Featured on National Trust for Historic Preservation Website

The research work of Dr. Doyuen Ko, associate professor of audio engineering, was recently featured on the website of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The article, “Sound Hounds: How One Research Team Is Helping Preserve the Acoustics of Historic Places,” notes the celebrated artists who have recorded in Columbia Studio A through the years. “There’s a magic there that’s not quantifiable,” Ko told the publication. “For many years, certain musicians always wanted to record their instruments in that place, in that studio.”

According to the website, Ko and his fellow researchers hope to complete their analysis of the data collected at Music Row by the end of this summer, and they will then use the most effective data gathering methods to pursue additional research at sites in New York and Peru.

Cornwall Gives Talk at United Nations

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Cornwall Gives Talk at United Nations

Professor and Jack C. Massey Chair of Entrepreneurship Jeff Cornwall gave a talk at the United Nations for Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day.

His talk, “How Emerging Technology  for Online Education Can Foster Global Growth in Business Startups,” was broadcast on UN Web.TV.  Cornwall was also given the Lifetime Achievement award by the International Council for Small Business.

Jeff Cornwall Headshot

The event was co-organized by the Permanent Mission of Argentina to the United Nations, the International Trade Centre, the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs and the International Council for Small Business. 

The event can be tracked on social media via #MSMEDay19.

Alumna Jégou Wins Independent Music Award

April Hefner
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Alumna Jégou Wins Independent Music Award

New Jersey-based Canadian singer Patrice Jégou, a 2000 Belmont alumna with a Master’s of Music degree in Classical Vocal Performance, received top honors in the A Cappella Song category at the 17th annual Independent Music Awards (IMAs), the influential program for independent artists and releases. The lead track from this versatile singer’s recent album release was honored at the annual awards ceremony held in New York City on Saturday, June 22.

Her winning track, “Lover Come Back To Me,” features Mark Kibble and Alvin Chea from Take 6. The tune is from her latest album If It Ain’t Love which released on March 22, 2019. The winning projects were selected by judging panels comprised of top recording talent including: Tom Waits, Lee Ann Womack, Robert Smith, Nicole Atkins, Todd Rundgren, Martha Wash and Jim Brickman, among many others; and influential press, managers and talent buyers from the Americas, Europe and the Pacific Rim.



Overby Quoted on WalletHub Site

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Overby Quoted on WalletHub Site

Dr. Jeff Overby, director of Belmont’s Center for International Business, was recently quoted in WalletHub’s “Ask the Experts” piece on the status of the American Express credit card brand. The article can be found here.

Carr Offers Presentations on Entertainment Industry

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Carr Offers Presentations on Entertainment Industry

Cheryl Carr, associate dean of the Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, recently presented “Innovating Leadership & Entrepreneurship in The Entertainment Industry” for the Association for Popular Music Education. She also presented “Women in Entertainment: Outsider Influence, Career Strategies, and the Power of Narrative” for the Association of Arts Administration Educators.

Garrett Hosts Science Workshops for Middle, High School Teachers

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Garrett Hosts Science Workshops for Middle, High School Teachers

Thanks for being very informative, approachable & giving practical cheap ways to do science!

I really enjoyed the day!  Thanks for putting it together and thanks for making me feel comfortable to ask questions.

Another WONDERFUL experience w/ Dr. Garrett and Belmont!  Love visiting here with all the outreach and substantial professional development.  THANK YOU!

I enjoyed seeing a higher level of questioning.  I can see how ideas begin to merge.

These are just a few of the comments from attendees at the fifth annual installment of the It’s Easy Being Green:  Budget-Friendly Safety-Conscious Chemistry Labs for the Secondary Science Classroom of Today workshop series, hosted by the Department of Chemistry and Physics.

Throughout the month of June, event organizer Dr. Danielle Garrett, assistant professor of chemistry education, hosted three day-long workshops for middle and high school science teachers. In the workshop this year “Go Green with G3: Garden Indicators, Gases and Galvanic Cells, participants engaged in lab work focusing on anthocyanin acid-base indicators from the garden, the ideal gas law and stoichiometry, and reduction potentials and galvanic cells.

This year, 42 attendees from 13 counties participated in the workshop series at Belmont, with a few teachers coming from as far as Knoxville to attend. More than 40 percent of the participants reported having attended at least one previous workshop since the program’s launch in 2015. 

Garrett Workshop photo

“I love the fact that each year I get a mix of both returning teachers and new attendees. It makes the experience so much richer, as these events not only provide teachers with hands-on professional development in chemistry, but they also serve as a way for teachers to make new professional connections – building a network of support and camaraderie,” Garrett said.

At the end of each workshop, participants are given a short questionnaire to complete. “The questionnaire helps me collect information about which labs the teachers found most useful and what topics they would like to see for future It’s Easy Being Green workshops,” Garrett said. “It’s great to see how many of the returning teachers are incorporating the labs and ideas they get at my workshop into their classrooms. Their continued positive feedback and enthusiasm for the content fuel my commitment to try to make each new workshop better than the last.”

Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano Visits Belmont

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Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano Visits Belmont

Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary from 2009-2013, visited Belmont’s campus on June 24 while in Nashville to talk about her new book, “How Safe Are We: Homeland Security Since 9/11.”

Napolitano was invited to speak with the “Global Tennessee” podcast by Belmont campus partner Tennessee World Affairs Council. According to Council President Patrick Ryan, Napolitano spoke about the work of DHS in the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11 and specifically about the challenges she faced during the first term of the President Obama Administration.

“She described the scope of the Homeland Security secretary’s responsibilities – running the third largest U.S. government organization behind the Pentagon and the VA,” said Ryan.

Napolitano talked about aviation security measures that were needed, natural disasters that struck, pandemic outbreaks like H1N1, terrorist attacks like the Times Square and Boston Marathon bombers and the challenge of cyber threats to U.S. infrastructure.

“Secretary Napolitano went into detail about immigration, refugees and the situation at the southern border – something she’s very familiar with as former two-term Governor of Arizona,” said Ryan.

The Global Tennessee Podcast concluded with Napolitano providing insights and perspective on the foreign cyber threat to U.S. elections, existential threats posed by nuclear weapons and climate change and “Black Swans” – the low probability, high impact phenomena that DHS must be ready to address.

Napolitano recording interview with Ryan

The podcast is available on the Tennessee World Affairs Council website.

The Tennessee World Affairs Council, a nonpartisan educational nonprofit, and Belmont University have partnered on global affairs awareness programs since 2009, including numerous speaking programs with ambassadors, business leaders and other specialists. The Council, with offices in Fidelity Hall, offers town halls and other programs on campus and free membership to Belmont students and faculty. It welcomes Belmont students to become involved through internships and volunteer support.

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