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President Bob Fisher Named CEO of the Year by Nashville Post

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President Bob Fisher Named CEO of the Year by Nashville Post

Belmont University President Dr. Bob Fisher was recently named as CEO of the Year by the Nashville Post. Detailing countless accomplishments since his arrival on campus in 2000, the Post’s feature story highlights the nearly 18 years Fisher has been President of the University including steady student enrollment growth from about 3,000 when he arrived to more than 8,000 today, an impressive student-to-teacher ratio and Belmont’s continued educational quality, among many other things.

The article goes on to feature Fisher’s commitment to growth — in both enrollment and campus scope — as his nickname “Bob the Builder” suggests. The author quotes philanthropist and businessman Gordon Inman saying, “We’re at 8,000 [students], but we’re not through growing. Bob the Builder is not through. I don’t know what the future holds for Belmont, but all I can tell you [is] I’m proud to be part of it.”

An economist and businessman himself, Fisher has led Belmont to impressive heights throughout his tenure on campus. Looking to the future, the article mentions the University’s We Believe Campaign, an effort to raise $300 million to support Belmont, and gives a nod to some of the University’s most noted accomplishments — new academic programs and facilities, hosting a presidential debate and countless impressive nationwide rankings, among others.

In closing, Fisher is quoted as saying, ““We have been blessed beyond our wildest dreams. But we believe this is only the beginning.”

To read the article in its entirety, click here.

Carter to Serve on Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation’s Regional Review Panel

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Tracey Carter Head ShotAssociate Professor of Law and Belmont University College of Law’s Director of Academic Success Dr. Tracey Carter will serve on the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation’s Regional Review Panel in Nashville on Tuesday, March 13. Carter (1993 Truman Scholar) and other panelists will be interviewing the 2018 Truman Scholarship Finalists from Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee, and the 2018 Class of Truman Scholars will be announced in April 2018.

The Truman Scholarship is a very competitive national scholarship and is considered “the premier graduate fellowship in the United States for those pursuing careers as public service leaders.” The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation “awards merit-based scholarships to college students who plan to pursue careers in government or elsewhere in public service. Truman Scholars receive up to $30,000 for graduate or professional school, participate in leadership development activities, and have special opportunities for internships and employment with the federal government.”

Rogers Awarded Fulbright Scholarship for Work in India

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Rogers Awarded Fulbright Scholarship for Work in India

Christine RogersAssistant Professor of Photography and artist Christine Rogers was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for her upcoming work in India. As a flex grant, Rogers will be funded for two trips over the next year including a trip during winter break this year and the summer of 2019. During her time abroad, Rogers will be in residence at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta, an interdisciplinary think tank focused on East Indian research. Rogers’s project will focus on history, international trade, climate change, collective memory and, of course, photography.

Passionate about interdisciplinary research, Rogers’s trip will allow her to study and take photographs to create a body of artwork on her topic–centered around memory and contemporary life in the anthropocene, examining the global ice trade of the 1800s and the phenomenon of modern day snow theme parks. “In looking at this almost evaporated history, I hope to find connections between photography and memory in a rapidly warming and image-saturated world,” she said.

This trip isn’t Rogers first experience in India or as a Fulbright Scholar. In 2012-2013, she traveled to India as a scholar, looking at the middle class domestic tourist industry and projections of landscape. She visited every landscape advertised as “The Switzerland of India” and began thinking about snow, ice and, as she calls it, “the beauty of the cold.” Since then, she was hooked.

“I haven’t stopped thinking about it since,” Rogers said. “I have wanted to do this project for a couple of years, and after the encouragement of my friends and colleagues, I decided to pursue grant funding to turn this dream into a reality.”

Belmont Named 2018 Best Music School for Veterans in Tennessee by College Factual

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Belmont Named 2018 Best Music School for Veterans in Tennessee by College Factual

Belmont University has been named the 2018 Best Music School for Veterans in Tennessee by College Factual.

Belmont’s music program is ranked No. 1 out of 15 colleges and Universities reviewed by College Factual for veteran friendliness in Tennessee. The is the second year in a row that Belmont has achieved this honor.  Belmont has also been ranked in the top 15 percent of all schools reviewed by College Factual nationally for providing a quality music education to veterans.

According to Mimi Barnard, Associate Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and Global Education, “Belmont University takes seriously its commitment to those who’ve served their country through military service, and we’re especially pleased to know that our student veterans have chosen to rank our School of Music so highly. Belmont’s School of Music, with world-class instructors and state-of-the-art studio resources, offers its students a winning combination of large university resources and personal, small college service.”

Belmont Ethics Team Competes in Florida

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Belmont Ethics Team Competes in Florida

Belmont recently competed in the Templeton Business Ethics Case Competition at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. Sixteen universities were invited to present their financial, legal and ethical analysis about a national pharmaceutical company who sold the patent rights of a very profitable prescription drug to the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe in order to delay the introduction of generic drug competition.

Belmont’s team of Eric Rall, Amanda Portillo and Jon Casel won their initial Bracket Competition over Clemson University, Georgetown University and last year’s winner, the University of North Dakota. After competing in the second round, Belmont advanced to the Final Round where they were awarded fourth place overall.  The team was coached by Massey College of Business faculty Boyd Smith, Jennifer Fowler, Barry Padgett and Harold Fogelberg.

 

Simmons Moderates BSA Black History Month Entrepreneurship Panel

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Simmons Moderates BSA Black History Month Entrepreneurship Panel

The Black Student Association (BSA) recently hosted Belmont’s Black History Month culminating event featuring successful entrepreneurs from all over Nashville. The event was developed and led by BSA, specifically under the leadership of Kayla Young, president, and Aminah VanArsdale, social events chair.

five entrepreneur guestsPage Turner (Egap Real Estate and Flip or Flop Nashville host), Harold Lercius (Lercius Fitness Studio), Mignon Francois (The Cupcake Collection), Emmanuel Reed (’12 and co-owner of Slim & Husky’s ) and Dr. Lakisha Simmons (Homework Suite – Student Planner App) engaged with the students about entrepreneurship.  The panelists also shared advice for Belmont’s budding entrepreneurs, encouraging them to get a mentor, start journaling and create repeatable processes.

A student in the audience asked the panelists how they balance their business and home life. “You only have one body, and you must take care of it on a daily basis so exercise is essential to a  balanced life” Lercius responded. Turner added, “Journaling and making sure I laugh each night helps me to relax and regroup.”

A future financial planner asked how to get clients for her new business. “Know your target audience and build trust with your tribe by offering them free advice and helpful resources, then through word of mouth, clients will come to you because you’ll have the reputation as the expert,” said Simmons. Francois added, “creating a positive customer experience will have them coming back again and again; our goal is to sprinkle each customers day with a bit of joy.” Reed explained that, at his company, “we want each customer to experience pizza, art and music. It’s a complete experience that customers keep coming back for.”

 

Belmont Celebrates Women’s History Month 2018

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Belmont Celebrates Women’s History Month 2018

“Nevertheless, she persisted,” a phrase originally spoken by Senator Mitch McConnell in attempt to silence Senator Elizabeth Warren in Congress last year, has become a rallying cry for women across the country. March 1 kicks off Women’s History Month 2018, and Belmont is ready to celebrate. Dr. Sarah Blomeley, co-chair of the celebration, wrote, “During Women’s History Month 2018, we celebrate that persistence even as we recognize the intersecting forms of discrimination women have faced in the past and continue to face today. Now more than ever, it is imperative that we listen to women’s voices–voices from the past and present, voices from near and far, voices of the famous and unknown, voices that command national interest, and voices we’ve been conditioned to ignore.”

To complement this year’s theme of persistence, Blomeley and co-chair Dr. Amy Hodges Hamilton prepared a series of events to celebrate women and their persistence in the fight against all forms of discrimination. All events are free and open to the public.

Events include:

Thursday, March 1: 4-5 p.m. Join Dr. Sarah Blomeley and a group of undergraduate researchers in The Personal is Rhetorical: Women Persisting Throughout History.

Monday, March 12: 10-11 a.m. Women on the Margins Locally and Globally: A Path Toward Healing will discuss ways to empower women in different social contexts through faith, hope and healing.

Monday, March 19: 10-11 a.m. Join Dr. Shelby Longard and student leaders for an interactive, social-action based convocation in Nevertheless They Persisted: Belmont Students Working Toward Change

Friday, March 23: 10-11 a.m. Writing and Healing: a Path Toward Persistence will feature Dr. Amy Hodges Hamilton for a writing workshop about the theory and practice of writing and trauma

Monday, march 26: 10-11 a.m. Dr. Heather Finch will introduce students to women lost to history in What Was Her Name?

Tuesday, March 27: 7-8 p.m. The women of the Belmont University Dance Company will present The Passion: A Choreographed Reading

Thursday, April 5: 6:30 p.m. Belmont seeks to raise awareness about violence against students, to give students a voice in their own safety on campus and to provide easily accessible resources for violence prevention and student safety through a Take Back the Night march.

For more information about the celebration or the individual events, click here.

“When we believe that ours is the only story out there,” wrote Blomeley, “We feel powerless and afraid. One voice shouting against the wind does not travel very far. But when that lone voice joins a choir of others, it becomes impossible to ignore… Paying attention to voices from our past helps us understand the present and plan for the future. Let’s listen.”

This year’s celebration of Women’s History Month is co-chaired by Drs. Blomeley and Hodges Hamilton, with co-sponsorship from University Ministries, the Office of Campus Security, the Office of the University Counsel, the Department of Theatre and Dance, the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and Counseling Services

College of Sciences and Mathematics Hosts 13th Annual Environmental Science Lecture with Dr. Karen Seto

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College of Sciences and Mathematics Hosts 13th Annual Environmental Science Lecture with Dr. Karen Seto

Karen Seto HeadshotBelmont’s College of Sciences and Mathematics Environmental Science Program recently hosted Dr. Karen Seto from Yale University for the 13th Annual Environmental Science Lecture. Her talk was entitled “Urbanization Trends in China and India: Environmental Opportunities and Challenges.” Seto is the Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Director of Doctoral Studies at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

An urban and land change scientist, the overarching objective of her research is to understand how urbanization will affect the planet. Her research uses a combination of satellite remote sensing, socioeconomic and biophysical data, field research and modeling methods to characterize urban land-use, understand the drivers of urban land-use change, forecast urban expansion and assess the large-scale environmental consequences of urban expansion. She has pioneered methods to reconstruct land-use dynamics with satellite data and forecast the expansion of urban areas.

Seto was one of two coordinating lead authors for the urban chapter of the “IPCC Working Group III Fifth Assessment Report,” and has served on many U.S. National Research Council Committees including the recent NRC Committee on Pathways to Urban Sustainability. From 2000 to 2008, she was on the faculty at Stanford University where she held joint appointments in the Woods Institute for the Environment and the School of Earth Sciences. She is an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. She has a PhD in Geography from Boston University.

Heard Published in Frontiers of Biogeography Journal

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Matthew Heard head shotDr. Matthew Heard, assistant professor of biology, recently had a research article accepted for publication in the Frontiers of Biogeography Journal, the scientific journal of the International Biogeography Society. The article is entitled “Disease biogeography: spatial and temporal analyses of infectious disease burden at the country-level scale provides new insights and challenges.”

Frontiers of Biogeography is an international scientific journal that publishes novel articles about topics at the interface of biology and geography.

Tri-Beta Plant Sale Raises Student Programming Funds

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Tri-Beta Plant Sale Raises Student Programming Funds

Students sit at a table during the Tri-Beta Plant saleThis year’s Tri-Beta plant sale, a fundraising put on by Belmont’s Beta Beta Beta (Tri-Beta) Biological Society, raised about $500 to support students programming including field trips and projects.

Tri-Beta is a society for students dedicated to improving the understanding and appreciation of biology. The Mu Theta Chapter of Tri-Beta at Belmont University was established April 9, 1988.  Since then, membership has promoted the study of biology through various activities such as presentations, fun field trips, trips to scientific meetings and social events for students.

Tri-Beta provides leadership opportunities for students, informs them about current developments in biology and helps them prepare for employment. Dr. Steve Murphree serves as the faculty advisor for this organization.

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