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College of Law Moot Court Team Named National Champion at Tournament

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College of Law Moot Court Team Named National Champion at Tournament

A Belmont University College of Law Moot Court Team was crowned national champion at this past weekend’s Emory Civil Rights and Liberties Moot Court Competition in Atlanta. Both of Belmont’s teams who competed in oral arguments were completely undefeated by any other school. Due to the competition’s set-up, Belmont’s teams faced each other in the semifinal round and the winning team earned the championship title by a narrow margin.

The national champion team included students Marisa Garcia, Joseph North, and Richard Swor. The semi-finalist team included students Curtis Campbell, Sarah Ferraro, and Sarah Martin. North also took home the Best Oralist Award for the entire competition, and the brief winning team of students Curtis Campbell, Sarah Ferraro and Crystal Micillo were ranked in the top five of the tournament.

While Emory has not yet released a full list of schools in attendance, there were 30 teams that competed in this competition from across the nation. Belmont beat teams from University of Georgia, Vermont Law School, Florida State University, University of Miami, South Texas, Ohio State University and Baylor.

The final round was adjudicated by a panel of three judges including the Honorable James O. Browning from the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, the Honorable Darrin P. Gayles from the United States District Court of the Southern District of Florida and the Honorable Christopher J. McFadden, the presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Besser Receives American Society of Interior Designers Awards

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Susan Besser, an adjunct instructor in Belmont’s O’More School of Design, was recently awarded two prestigious awards from American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). Besser won the ASID Gold Award for Small Kitchen Design 2018, which she also received in 2016, and the ASID Tennessee State Award for Educator of the Year in 2018.

A Tennessee Registered Interior Designer and passionate preservationist, Besser has a Masters in Historic Preservation from Middle Tennessee State University. She has been involved in preservation in Franklin for many years and was involved in the preservation of the Dan German Hospital and documentation of the rehabilitation of Clouston Hall. During her six-year tenure in Dallas, she served on the Landmark Designation Committee of the Dallas Historic Commission and is a co-author of Dallas Landmarks, a Postcard History Series publication from Arcadia.

She focuses her practice on residential and commercial design of historic and contemporary spaces. When working with historic properties, she is sensitive to the structure and detail of these properties recognizing the importance of creating livable, comfortable environments which enhance the historic character. Besser served as the Nashville District ASID Chair from 2011-2013 and currently serves as Chairwoman of the Franklin Historic Zoning Commission.

She received the Nashville District Practitioner of the Year Award in 2012 from the Tennessee State ASID Chapter and the O’More Distinguished Faculty of the Year Award in 2014. She is currently working on a comprehensive work of Selma, Alabama’s architectural resources and has been teaching at O’More for sixteen years focusing on historic preservation, kitchen design and design history classes.

Besser’s Recent Work (before and after) on a Kitchen:

 

Students in Neuroscience Honor Society Presents to Local Elementary Children

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Students in Neuroscience Honor Society Presents to Local Elementary Children

Earlier this month, neuroscience students and members of Nu Rho Psi, the neuroscience honor society at Belmont, traveled to Henry Maxwell Elementary in Antioch. While there, the group, which included Crystal Lemus, Aditi Buch, Chloe Garbe, Heena Ismaili, Jennifer King, Damaris Guevara, Benya Paueksakon and Devanie Combs, led a neuroscience-based presentation on the five senses to 3rd and 4th grade classes totaling a little over 300 students.

The 45-minute presentation focused on the brain mechanisms that underlie the five senses and included fun, interactive demonstrations for students. Hands-on activities included shaking a small brain in an empty bottle filled with water to stress the importance of cerebrospinal fluid in brain injury prevention and tasting candy while pinching the nose to stress the importance of smell and its role in flavor detection, among many others. The presentation wrapped up with students putting on rubber gloves and touching an actual sheep brain.

Students were entertained and left interested in neuroscience. Some even stated that the neuroscience presentation inspired them to learn more about the field and that they would love to study it further once in college. “It is always fun to see the student’s reactions when they find out that they will get to not only see a real brain, but touch one as well,” said Lemus, Nu Rho Psi’s president. “We started with one presentation last year and fell in love with the huge impact it made in the young minds of others. This year we are hoping to reach out to one elementary school, in the local Nashville area, per month.”

Nu Rho Psi, aside from planning events for National Brain Awareness Week, hosting journal clubs and having fundraisers, is focusing on community outreach and giving back to the local community. While only their second year on campus, the student organization has held events for National Brain Awareness Week, presented to over 300 students and is working towards national recognition.

Ingram Published in Education Technology Insights

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Ingram Published in Education Technology Insights

Will IngramWilliam Ingram, Belmont’s chief technology officer, recently published an article in Education Technology Insights. His article, “People First Technology,” details the ways in which he has spent his first three years on Belmont’s campus focusing on people.

Ingram’s discusses how his people-first mentality lead to developments in key areas across campus, including:

  • Launching Belmont’s first IT Service Desk
  • Assisting with the effective development of more technological, hybrid courses
  • Launching the University’s first information security awareness and education initiative

To read the article in its entirety, click here.

United Talent Agency Partners with Belmont University to Present The Digital Summit for Students

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United Talent Agency Partners with Belmont University to Present The Digital Summit for Students

On Thursday, October 18, United Talent Agency (UTA) hosted their inaugural Digital Summit on Belmont University’s campus. The event presented discussions with UTA executives including Digital Strategy Agent Nick Barnes, Head of IQ Strategy Kendall Ostrow, Digital Agent/Emerging Platforms Oren Rosenbaum and Spotify’s Director, Head of Originals Jesse Burton. The summit was open to all Belmont students.

The Digital Summit, conceived by UTA, aimed to educate students on career opportunities in the digital marketplace and explore the current landscape across practice areas such as social media, podcasting and fan retargeting. Three sessions took place including “Retargeting: How to Cut Through the Noise and Market to Your True Fans” by Nick Barnes, followed by “Social Media: What Could go Wrong? Brand Crisis Management in the Digital Age” by Kendall Ostrow and “Creation to Syndication: How to get a Podcast off the Ground” by Oren Rosenbaum and Jesse Burton.

“Our ongoing relationship with UTA has resulted in countless professional and educational benefits for our students here at Belmont,” said Dr. Cheryl Slay Carr, associate dean of Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business. “By hosting a unique event like The Digital Summit, we were able to introduce them to career opportunities in a burgeoning field and invaluable insights from industry thought leaders.”

“We created The Digital Summit alongside Belmont to educate the next generation about career opportunities in the digital world,” said Nick Barnes, UTA digital strategy agent. “Upon graduating, music business students tend to only consider the traditional route of labels, publishing, management, etc. and we wanted to highlight the value of the growing digital marketplace.”

Please find a link to photos from The Digital Summit, here.

Nursing Alumna Featured for Cardiac Work

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Melissa Moore, a 2006 nursing graduate from Belmont, was recently featured in an article for her work with cardiac services as an Outreach Coordinator for Advanced Cardiac Therapies at UCLA Health. In the article, Moore details the work her team is doing to expand their services to additional communities throughout Los Angeles and the surrounding area to ensure specialized care is convenient and accessible.

“We’re partnering with local cardiologists and primary care physicians to provide comprehensive services to patients closer to where they live and work,” she says.

The article goes on to detail Moore’s team’s work on heart failure treatment as more and more Americans continue to battle these diagnoses. According to the American Heart Association, the number of Americans who suffer from heart failure, an estimated 6.5 million, is expected to rise by 46 percent by 2030.

Students Participate in Master Class, Create Custom Wallpaper for the Belmont Mansion

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Students Participate in Master Class, Create Custom Wallpaper for the Belmont Mansion

Led by alumna-owned New Hat, student groups spent the week creating custom art for their client

A group of Belmont art students spent five days in a masterclass earlier this month as they learned from artist experts Kelly Diehl and Belmont alumna Elizabeth Williams, owners of studio New Hat. Invited by Assistant Professor of Art Christine Rogers, the New Hat duo spent time educating students on the process of creating wallpaper, the history of the facility and more as they worked between their meetings with the client, the Belmont Mansion.

“The Mansion’s Executive Director Mark Brown was graciously open to the patterns being historically referential, but the final product being contemporary and even possibly wild,” Williams said. “The students were eager to learn about the entrepreneurial side of our art business, and we were impressed with their engagement, teamwork and professionalism. The level of work they were able to produce in such a small time frame was amazing.”

The winning design from the New Hat Masterclass will soon be on display in the Belmont Mansion.

At the end of the week, Brown, his team and an additional professional served as judges while the students presented their creations — wallpaper which has been studied, dreamt up, drawn and physically created over the course of 4 days. “They had an incredibly difficult time choosing the winning design because they were all so thoughtful and well-presented,” Williams said.

In the end, they went with Historico Minimo because of its playful use of color, reference to the checkerboard floor and timeless, central motif.

Williams and Diehl were thrilled to see the variety of created designs given such a challenging prompt and timeline. “We asked them to create a contemporary design in the context of an historic home which is a tall order,” Williams said. “We were pleasantly surprised at how advanced the results were.”

The winning design will be printed locally, and the students will get to see the process. Williams hopes to install the paper within the Mansion and hold an opening exhibition to showcase all designs.

College of Pharmacy Students Provide Services to Community

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College of Pharmacy Students Provide Services to Community

Belmont University College of Pharmacy faculty, recent graduates and student members of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association recently volunteered at a medical and dental clinic held at Riverside Chapel Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The group assisted in providing services at the on-site pharmacy led by Belmont College of Pharmacy Associate Professor Dr. Hope Campbell.

The Belmont pharmacy team helped perform a variety of tasks at the clinic as they provided technician support, dispensed over 70 scripts and counseled patients. They screened 30 patients for osteoporosis and helped more than 20 patients select appropriate reading glasses.

Belmont Pharmacy students help at clinic

In addition to volunteering at the clinic, students completed medication inventory management, pharmacy set up and pre-counting of fast-moving clinic items.

Associate Professor Dr. Campbell said that the Belmont College of Pharmacy team, “truly lived up to its mission of serving the undeserved. Even when students graduate and are now practicing pharmacists, they can not help but return to continue the tradition of service.”

Harry Allen, Dan Soukup Recognized with Massey Distinguished Graduate Awards

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Harry Allen, Dan Soukup Recognized with Massey Distinguished Graduate Awards

Belmont’s graduate business alums honored for excellence in professional achievement, community involvement

Last night Belmont University’s Massey Graduate School of Business Alumni Board recognized two outstanding alumni—Studio Bank Executive Vice President and Chief Relationship Officer Harry Allen and Soukup, Bush & Associates’ Shareholder Dan Soukup—who have demonstrated excellence in the areas of professional achievement, community involvement, and commitment to the Massey School.

BKD CPA Senior Associate Tyler Vieth, a 2015 Massey graduate and co-chair of the Distinguished Graduate Awards, said, “What stood out to me for both Harry and Dan was not only their commitment to their outstanding careers, but also their community involvement. Listening to their speeches, I realized that there was one common denominator – Belmont University and the Jack C. Massey School of Business. Their remarks on the importance of their respective programs and the lifelong values that came from it was overwhelming as a recent graduate and really validated why all our alumni and faculty know that Belmont and the Massey School are such special places”

Harry L. Allen graduated from Belmont with a Bachelor of Business Administration in international management in 2004, after being admitted as a Hearst Scholarship recipient and to the highly competitive Honors Program. He also earned his Master of Business Administration from Belmont’s Massey Graduate School of Business in 2010 as an H.B. & Dorris Massey Scholar. He is a co-founder, executive vice president and chief relationship officer of Studio Bank, Nashville’s newest locally-headquartered boutique bank. He serves as the Bank’s lead business development officer and manages the Bank’s involvement and investment in community efforts. He also serves as the key manager of relationships with stakeholders such as the Bank’s Founders’ Advisory Board, civic and economic development organizations and other strategic partnerships with external stakeholders. Key among Allen’s responsibilities is his role in directing and implementing the Bank’s strategy for engaging not-for-profit and education clients, a target market segment for the Bank.

A native of Nashville, Allen is active in the Nashville Community serving on the board of directors for the Center for Nonprofit Management (Treasurer), Leadership Middle Tennessee, and is a Trustee of Belmont University (Finance & Endowment Committees). He is a 2008 winner of the Chamber’s Nashville Emerging Leader award, a 2011 honoree of Nashville’s Top 30 Under 30, a 2014 honoree of Nashville Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40, a 2018 Inductee into the Public Schools Hall of Fame by the Nashville Public Education Foundation, and a 2018 honoree in Nashville Business Journal’s Power Leaders in Finance. He is also an active member of the Rotary Club of Nashville where he has previously served as Treasurer and was recently elected President-Elect.

Dan Soukup graduated with honors from Belmont University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Business Administration with an emphasis in accounting. While at Belmont, he played on the baseball team from 2001-2004 and was named to the NCAA Division I Baseball Academic All American Team in 2004. He received his Master in Accounting in 2005, also from Belmont University while achieving a 3.9 G.P.A. in the graduate program.

Soukup is a shareholder with Soukup, Bush & Associates, P.C. in Fort Collins, Colorado He is an attest partner in charge of financial statement and 401(k) audits, internal control and financial statement reviews and compilations. He also provides tax planning, compliance and accounting services for individuals and privately held businesses. Prior to joining the firm, Dan had five years’ experience at multinational accounting firm Deloitte & Touche LLP, where he was primarily involved in audits and reviews of various privately held entities whose revenues ranged from $50 million to $13 billion. He received his Certified Public Accountant license in 2007. Dan sits on the Board of the Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants (COCPA) and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

The Massey Distinguished Graduates Award Ceremony was held on Tuesday night at the WME offices in Nashville.

Clayton Receives 2019 Baker Donelson Diversity Scholarship

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Clayton Receives 2019 Baker Donelson Diversity Scholarship

Tenia Clayton, a second year student in Belmont’s College of Law, was recently named as one of two recipients of the 2019 Baker Donelson Diversity Scholarship. As part of her award, Clayton will serve as a summer associate in the Firm’s Nashville office.

The recipients were selected from 99 applicants attending 49 law schools across the country including Belmont University College of Law, American University, Washington College of Law, Emory University School of Law, Howard University School of Law, Tulane Law School, University of Alabama School of Law, University of Georgia School of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law and Washington University School of Law, St. Louis.

“Savita and Tenia exemplify the type of candidates that we see every year: driven, motivated and engaged law school students who we believe represent the future of a more diverse and inclusive legal profession,” said Mark A. Baugh, chair of Baker Donelson’s Diversity Committee, in a recent press release. “Achieving true diversity in our profession remains a challenge, but we’re proud of the small part this scholarship program plays in giving diverse law students greater opportunities to pursue a career in law. We look forward to welcoming Savita and Tenia as part of this program.”

Established in 2008, the Baker Donelson Diversity Scholarship Program awards scholarships annually to diverse law school students who have completed their first year of law school. Each recipient receives a salaried second year summer associate position in one of the Firm’s 22 offices. Upon completion of the summer associate position, the Firm also awards each recipient a $10,000 scholarship during the student’s third year of law school.

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