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Schreiber Presents Paper at EGOS in Naples, Italy

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Schreiber Presents Paper at EGOS in Naples, Italy

david-schreiberDavid Schreiber, assistant professor and chair of the Entertainment Industry Studies Program, recently presented a paper at the European Group of Organization Studies annual colloquium in Naples, Italy.  His paper entitled “The Role of Symbolic Capital in Music Industry Decision-Making” contributed to a lively discussion on strategic decision-making practices within the music industry.

As part of a larger track in the creative and cultural industries stream, academics from across the globe shared their research on management and organization practices within the cultural sector.

Faculty Members Participate in Effective Teaching Conference

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Faculty Members Participate in Effective Teaching Conference

A group of Belmont faculty members recently participated in the August 2016 Lilly Conference on Designing Effective Teaching in Asheville, North Carolina. Drs. Jenny Crowell, social work, Cynthia Curtis, religion, Mike Pinter, mathematics and the Teaching Center, Robbie Pinter, English and Jennifer Thomas, biology and Teaching Center joined professors from around the country in workshop sessions on the conference’s theme, “Creating Innovative Learning Experiences in Higher Education.”

Curtis and Robbie Pinter presented a session entitled “Memoir: Reading and Writing Life in a Learning Community” where they offered details of their experience teaching in a Learning Community during the spring 2016 semester including goals and outcomes. Mike Pinter and Thomas presented a session entitled “BeATLe Readers: A New Spin on Book Groups” that described the Teaching Center’s 2015-16 initiative with in-semester applied teaching and learning reading groups and included outcomes.

Student Pharmacists Travel to Institute on Alcoholism and Drug Dependencies

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Belmont University College of Pharmacy third year student pharmacists Morgan Medley, Becca Moore and Kera Sumner recently attended the 2nd annual American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Institute on Alcoholism & Drug Dependencies in Salt Lake City, Utah. Student pharmacists from all over the nation attend this institute to learn more about addiction, and students can receive 2 hours of college credit.

The students spent four days with their fellow student pharmacists learning more about addiction as a disease and how pharmacists can make an impact. Attendees heard from experts in the field of addiction, attended Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings, and received hands on naloxone administration training. After their trainings were complete, the students were able to take a trip up Salt Lake’s infamous Living Room Trail.

 

 

Students Attend Pharmacy Leadership Institute

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Students Attend Pharmacy Leadership Institute

Belmont Student Pharmacists Alliance (BSPA) President Bekki Burch and American Pharmacists Association – Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) President Becca Moore recently attended the APhA-ASP Student Leadership Institute in Washington, D.C. While at the Institute, they participated in Capitol Hill visits where they spoke with Senator Bob Corker, Representative Stephen Fincher and Representative Steve Cohen about provider status which allows pharmacists to be reimbursed under Medicare Part B.

While in D.C., Burch and Moore were invited to tour the APhA headquarters before exploring the National Mall with student pharmacists from across their region and raising money for the upcoming Region 3 Midyear Regional Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

 

 

 

 

Finchum Signs Deal with Razor & Tie Music Publishing

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Finchum Signs Deal with Razor & Tie Music Publishing

Razor & Tie Music Publishing (RTMP) recently announced the signing of singer songwriter Thomas Finchum. The Indianapolis native is currently a senior in Belmont’s music business program.

“Thomas is one of those rare, gifted humans that writes songs that cut straight through the surface and put hurt in your heart, while delivering them with a flawless and convincing voice. He’s a deep well of talent. I’m honored that he’d share his career with us at Razor and Tie,” says Brad Kennard, Razor & Tie Music Publishing’s VP of Creative.

Finchum says, “I’m so excited and grateful to join the team at Razor and Tie! From the very first time I met with Brad, I knew I found someone that not only believed in the music I was making, but someone that would challenge and push me to be better every single day. I can’t wait to see what this next chapter will hold.”

Finchum was a platform diver on the U.S. 2008 Olympic Team before pursuing a career in country music. After spending much of his life pursuing sports, an injury sidelined those efforts, and Thomas picked up the guitar later than most, at the age of 21. As soon as he learned a few chords, Thomas began writing songs and soon recognized that he had a well of emotions to draw from. The energy and focus that he had previously directed towards sports proved valuable as he began the path of playing, writing and eventually performing music.

Littlejohn Awarded ‘International Talent Cooperation Project’ Grant

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Littlejohn Awarded ‘International Talent Cooperation Project’ Grant

Ronnie Littlejohn

Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Asian Studies Program Dr. Ronnie Littlejohn recently received notice that he is being awarded a grant from the Foreign Experts Bureau of Henan Province in China to participate in their “International Talent Cooperation Project.”  This is a 50,000 RMB grant (somewhat less than $10,000), and it will fund a speaking tour of major universities in that province during October. In addition to meeting with meet with two Ph.D. students whose dissertations he is helping with at Zhengzhou University’s Center for Asia-Pacific Research, Littlejohn will speak on these topics: “Education, Transmission and Influence of American Core Values on U.S. Society,” “Change and Stability in the Ethical Culture of Contemporary China” and “Cultivating the Core Values Necessary for the Construction of a Civilized and Harmonious Society based on a Comparison of China and America.”

Belmont Recognized as a Superuser at Tk20 Annual Conference

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Belmont Recognized as a Superuser at Tk20 Annual Conference

Belmont was recently recognized at the 11th annual Tk20 User’s Conference as a superuser due to the University’s wide use of the system. Tk20 was founded by experts in enterprise management in collaboration with senior university administrators and professors to create an integrated, assessment, planning and reporting system. Assessment Coordinator Carol Smith Walter said, “As the use of Tk20 spreads, we will have more and more ways that we can learn from the result of our students’ work. I appreciate everyone’s participation so much.”

Belmont currently uses a variety of different modules in the Tk20 platform, including the following:

Faculty Qualifications: Faculty store their CV info as well as track their accomplishments and contributions.

Planning: each Major, General Education component, and Administrative Unit enters outcomes and results in this module. This functions both to keep Belmont moving forward in continuous improvement and provides evidence to accreditors that key processes are in place.

Portfolios: Student work can now be collected through Tk20 by simple uploads from the students. This is building a foundation by which Belmont can examine progress toward University Learning Goals (Rhetoric, Content, Critical Thinking, Nature of the World). At the same time, academic programs are beginning to use Portfolios to collect student work for review and for accreditation within their units.

Juried Assessments: While we used to gather in rooms to grade hard copy papers, we can now set up Assessments can now be set up so that faculty can score a paper (or a sample from a group of papers) from whatever computer they use. They can use a common rubric built into the system and then can print an aggregate of those scores.

Wilkins Competes This Weekend in Miss Black USA Pageant

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Wilkins Competes This Weekend in Miss Black USA Pageant

LaQuitta (Shai) WilkinsCurrent Miss Black Alabama USA LaQuitta Shai Wilkins, a Belmont nursing graduate and former women’s basketball player, is competing at the Miss Black USA pageant this weekend in Washington, D.C. Shai is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, initiated here at Belmont’s Tau Nu Chapter. Her hometown ABC affiliate recently did a feature story on her that can be viewed here . This Miss Black USA pageant will be streamed live on Sunday, Aug. 7 at 4 p.m. Central.

 

 

College of Pharmacy Faculty Present at National AACP Meeting

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College of Pharmacy Faculty Present at National AACP Meeting

Ten faculty members from the Belmont University College of Pharmacy attended the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) held in Anaheim, California in July. This meeting is the largest gathering of academic pharmacy administrators, faculty and staff.

Dr. Hope Campbell, immediate past chair of the Minority Faculty Special Interest Group, delivered a presentation with colleagues titled “Addressing Hot Topics About Minority Faculty and Students in Pharmacy Programs.” Dr. Angela Hagan attended the meeting as the Secretary of this Small Interest Group.

Dr. Leigh Ann Bynum delivered a presentation with colleagues titled “Faculty Citizenship in the Academy: What Is It and What Do We Do With It?”

Dr. Scott Weston facilitated a round table session focusing on “Interprofessional Education: Leveraging Team STEPPS Faculty Training Across Multiple Disciplines to Enhance Interprofessional Faculty and Student Interaction.”

Drs. Ashton Beggs, Kelley Kiningham, Phil Johnston, Montgomery Williams, and Kristy Wahaib presented a poster titled “Being Belmont: Preparing the Next Generation of Pharmacists” and Dr. Adam Pace and colleagues presented a poster titled “Prevalence and characteristics of pharmacies owned and operated by schools of pharmacy in the U.S.”

Dr. Angela Clauson served as the administrative delegate and Dr. Marilyn Thompson Odom served as the faculty delegate.

Biology Summer Scholars Conduct Collaborative Research

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Biology Summer Scholars Conduct Collaborative Research

The Summer Scholars Program provides students and faculty the opportunity to conduct collaborative research for which the students receive course credit.  Since the summer of 2003, more than 40 research communities have been formed involving over 100 students in the areas of biology, English, mathematics, computer science, history, psychology and sociology. Many of the communities continue year after year with the same faculty mentor and a new group of student participants. For example, a number of biology faculty have communities each year continuing to investigate their favorite model organism or system as listed below.

Biology Summer Scholars on Green RoofProfessor of Biology Dr. Darlene Panvini’s research group worked on two different projects. Students Anna Anderson and Gary Noel set up a six-month study to analyze the decomposition of native and non-native leaves under different environmental conditions. In the other study, Sargoel Rezanejad and Kelsey Saint Clair used DNA Barcoding, Biolog Ecoplates and pitfall traps to compare the diversity of plants, bacteria and macroinvertebrates on one of the Ayers Academic Center’s green roofs to the McWhorter Hall green roof.

Dr. Chris Barton, assistant professor of biology, mentored a group of four students who explored the effects of multiple compounds on the growth of cervical and colorectal cancer cell lines. The ability to identify, quantify and classify genes that are specifically expressed is essential to understanding how cells respond to chemotherapy. Anna Margaret McDonnell, Kerry Sommers, Sarah Anderson and Diana Neculcea exposed cell cultures to a variety of chemotherapy agents and then measured cell viability and examined the expression of specific genes including genes implicated in cancer.

Professor of Biology Dr. Lori McGrew led a group of students utilizing Danio rerio (zebrafish) as a model organism and focused on assessment of anxiety or memory in the fish. Austin Demaagd, Stephane Morin and Sam Zacovic measured anxiety in the fish following treatment with various pharmacologic agents. Curt Brown, John Longenecker and Mohamed Darwish used a T-maze to assess memory in zebrafish that had been exposed to different medications.

The Summer Scholars students are scheduled to share their findings with the Belmont community during a poster session in the Ayers Academic Center third floor atrium at 10 a.m. Sept. 3.

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