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Beasley Institute for Free Enterprise Hosts First Speaker

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Beasley Institute for Free Enterprise Hosts First Speaker

The Thomas W. Beasley Institute for Free Enterprise,a newly created institute at Belmont University, hosted John Allison as its first featured speaker earlier this week. Allison is an Executive in Residence at the Wake Forest School of Business and a member of the Cato Institute’s Board of Directors and Chairman of the Executive Advisory Council of the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives.

He was president and CEO of the Cato Institute for three years and served as chairman and CEO of BB&T Corporation, the 10th-largest financial services holding company headquartered in the United States. During his tenure as CEO from 1989 to 2008, BB&T grew from $4.5 billion to $152 billion in assets. He was recognized by the Harvard Business Review as one of the top 100 most successful CEOs in the world over the last decade.

Allison is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. He received his master’s degree in management from Duke University and is also a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking. Allison is the recipient of six honorary doctorate degrees.

Belmont’s Beasley Institute for Free Enterprise is a learning center committed to exploring and providing education and programming about the impact of free enterprise in American society. The Institute communicates the relationships between free enterprise, growth and economic prosperity, fosters the ideals of ethical and moral behavior in a system of free enterprise and highlights the roles therein of rule of law, democratic governance and competitive markets.

Artist Amy Grant Shares How Her Faith Impacted Her Career

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Artist Amy Grant Shares How Her Faith Impacted Her Career

“My life has been an endless adventure,” said singer/songwriter Amy Grant when speaking about her career at a recent Chapel event on Belmont’s campus. Under this week’s Chapel theme, “Career & Calling,” Grant talked about how her faith impacted and shaped her professionally.

Grant spoke about being young and involved at her church, but wanting to be more connected to where the action was. She was inspired by the music and message she was experiencing in church and other places. Leading a chapel service at her high school led Grant to realize she enjoyed doing that kind of performing and songwriting. After getting a record deal at the age of 15, she started writing more music about struggles and questions of God.

Grant told students about how her journey of faith shaped her path to her career. “My journey of faith is what led me to a career. My faith made me brave enough to put myself out there and say something that mattered. That was how I launched,” Grant commented.

But being aware of how God saw her at a young age, Grant felt like her true gift has always been creativity and uses that in her songwriting. “All the longing we feel is connected to belonging,” Grant told students. “At an early age I fell into the belief that I belonged to the one who made me.”

After performing some songs, including one of her earliest hits “My Father’s Eyes,” Grant closed out her talk by telling students that “wherever you are with God, you’re in the picture. Believe that you belong already.”

Hobson Featured in University of Pennsylvania Museum Journal

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Hobson Featured in University of Pennsylvania Museum Journal

Dr. Eric Hobson, professor of English at Belmont University, was recently featured in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s Journal, Expedition. His article, titled “Brazil from Above: General Rondon and the Matto Grosso Expedition,” recounts events during mid-June 1931 that led to General Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Brazil’s most famous citizen’s first flight aboard an aircraft.

That flight, provided by the Matto Grosso Expedition of 1931, resulted in the American team receiving permission to travel into areas of western Brazil that were off limits to all but indigenous communities and to film these peoples.

Voight Presents at American Physical Therapy Association Combined Meeting

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Voight Presents at American Physical Therapy Association Combined Meeting

Recently, Dr. Mike Voight from the School of Physical Therapy gave a keynote presentation at the annual Combined Sections Meeting for the American Physical Therapy Association held in Washington DC. Several hundred people were in attendance to learn how to get your scientific research published.

The presentation looked at the peer review process through the eyes of a reviewer which gave the audience a glimpse into the scenes of evaluating a manuscript. In turn, this could help scholars submit better qualified manuscripts for publication.

Alumna to Host New Television Segment for Sinclair Broadcast Group

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Alumna to Host New Television Segment for Sinclair Broadcast Group

No stranger to politics and public law, alumna Ameshia Cross was recently hired by Sinclair Broadcast Group to host a new television segment. Her new segment will be called “Cross Point with Ameshia Cross” and will bring widening perspectives to Sinclair’s networks.

After graduating from Belmont in 2009 with degrees in both journalism and political science, Cross went on to work for several institutions focused on communications, politics and policy. Most notably she worked as the Director of State Policy at the Pretrial Justice Institute, the Director of Policy and External Affairs for the National Black Child Development Institute and as the Communications Director for Caldwell Strategic Consulting.

In her new position with Sinclair Broadcast Group, Cross will use her expertise to produce and host her segment, providing viewers with a perspective different to that of other shows on their networks.

Allen&Heath Visits Advanced Sound Reinforcement Class

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Allen&Heath Visits Advanced Sound Reinforcement Class

On Thursday, January 17, regional representatives of Allen&Heath Consoles visited sound reinforcement classes at Belmont, showing off their latest product offerings and reviewing design aspects of digital console systems, overall.

Students were able to see, hear and touch the latest live sound mixing systems and ask technical questions of the manufacturer’s representatives, providing a unique learning experience.

Tarr Releases Audio Software with Apogee Electronics

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Tarr Releases Audio Software with Apogee Electronics

Dr. Eric Tarr, assistant professor of audio engineering technology, recently released an audio software plug-in with Apogee Electronics. The software is a digital recreation of an analog hardware tool called an LA-3A used in music recording studios all over the world.

Tarr performed the signal processing to model the analog hardware, as well as the computer programming to create the software plug-in. The software was demonstrated at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) in Anaheim, CA January 16-19.

Said, Heard Present at Shelby Bottoms Nature Center

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Said, Heard Present at Shelby Bottoms Nature Center

Lina Said,a senior biology major, and Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Matthew Heard gave a presentation on plastic pollution at Shelby Bottoms Nature Center on Saturday January 26. The presentation focused on helping Nashville residents understand how small bits of microscopic plastics are effecting the Cumberland River and explained Lina’s senior research project that examined plastic there in the River and where it’s coming from.

The session also included a demonstration for adults and kids on how environmental scientists count plastic in water samples.

Bruins Join Hundreds of Nashville College Students to Celebrate MLK Day with Service

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Bruins Join Hundreds of Nashville College Students to Celebrate MLK Day with Service

In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, more than 500 students from the Nashville area, including students from Belmont, Fisk, Lipscomb, Tennessee State, Trevecca Nazarene and Vanderbilt Universities, gathered together on Saturday, January 19 for a day of service to honor the life and legacy of Dr. King. After beginning their morning on at TSU’s Keen Hall for a kick-off event and keynote address given by Charlane Oliver, President of The Equity Alliance, the group was split into teams and headed into the city to work alongside nonprofits in the area.

More than 20 site locations were offered to students this year including Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, Trevecca’s Urban Farm, The Nashville Food Project, Thrift Alliance, Feed the Children and The Schrader Lane Vine Hill Child Care Center, among many others.

Participated students provided community partners with a number of completed service projects including sorting donations and merchandise, packing boxes of food and other household essentials, cleaning up a local park, cleaning facilities, organizing materials and painting.

Afterward completing their projects, the group re-assembled for reflection and celebration.

Tim Stewart, Director of Service Learning, said, “Seeing over 350 people of diverse backgrounds come together to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King by serving others was very inspiring. The greatness of our community was evident in Dr. King’s quote ‘everybody can be great…because anybody can serve’. We’re not there yet, but events like this give me hope that Dr. King’s Dream is very much alive.”

Photo provided by Trevecca Nazarene University Photographer

Dervan Receives Excellence in Scholarship Award

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Dervan Receives Excellence in Scholarship Award

Associate Professor of Law Lucian Dervan recently received the Excellence in Scholarship award at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in New Orleans. The award was given by the East Asian Law & Society Section of the AALS. The piece for which the award was given was his new co-authored article titled “Bargained Justice: A Comparative Analysis of Plea Bargaining.” The article discusses the results of ongoing comparative research in the United States, Japan and South Korea. The research, undertaken with the assistance of a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, seeks to better understand the prevalence of false pleas of guilty globally and the impact of factors such as incentives, pretrial detention and risk aversion on defendant decision-making. Dervan said, “We hope that our work will bring further attention to the phenomenon on false pleas and assist in creating more accurate and reliable systems of criminal justice throughout the world.”

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