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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.

Students Present Summer Research at 16th Annual Los Alamos National Laboratory Student Research Symposium

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Students Present Summer Research at 16th Annual Los Alamos National Laboratory Student Research Symposium

Ambrose_2016Belmont students from the College of Science and Mathematics presented their summer research at the highly competitive Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Student Research Symposium on August 3. Ambrose Rice, a senior biology major, and Sherif Helmey, a junior biology major, joined more than 200 of the best and brightest undergraduate students from all over the country who have been working all summer on cutting edge research projects at LANL. The student symposium is the capstone event for these young researchers after spending 10 weeks at the lab. In its 16th year with a theme of “Celebrating Student Achievement,” students must submit abstracts and put together a scientific poster that is judged by LANL staff scientists and is open to the public.

SherifAmbrose’s poster was titled, “Enhancing Lignin Degradation: The Holy Grail of Cellulosic Bio-fuel Production,” and Sherif’s poster was titled, “A Better Understanding of Protein Structure and Function by the Synthesis and Incorporation of Selenium- and Tellurium- Containing Tryptophan Analogs.”

Both students are at LANL as part of a federal Department of Energy (DOE) grant valued at $29,000 that was awarded to Dr. Duane Hatch, assistant professor from the department of chemistry and physics, titled, “Bio-incorporation of a Se-Containing Tryptophan Analog (SeTrp) into Lignin Peroxidase (LiP) to Study the Enhanced Catalytic Ability Towards Lignin Model Compounds and Dyes.”  As part of the grant, Dr. Hatch is able to spend the summer at Los Alamos National Lab conducting his proposed research and can select up to two undergraduate students to accompany him, each with a very generous stipend that covers travel, housing and salary for the full 10 weeks. Dr. Hatch serves as the Principal Investigator and LANL staff scientists, Dr. Pete Silks and Dr. Ricardo Marti-Arbona (both from the Bioscience Division, B-11), serve as CO-PIs and mentors to the students.

Shin Publishes Article in Sports Management Journal

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Shin Publishes Article in Sports Management Journal

Stephen ShinDr. Stephen Hankil Shin, assistant professor of sport science, recently published a peer-reviewed article with coauthors titled “Examining psychometric properties of Korean American consumer decision-making styles: The case of golf club purchasing,” (Volume 22, Issue a) in the International Journal of Sport Management, Recreation and Tourism.

Neumann President Visits Belmont’s Campus

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Neumann President Visits Belmont’s Campus

During a Maymester 2016 study abroad course titled “Music Product Design, Development and Marketing,” Assistant Professor of Entertainment Industry Studies Dr. Sarita Stewart, Associate Professor of Physics Dr. Scott Hawley and a group of Belmont students toured the Neumann facility in Berlin, Germany. Neumann is a worldwide leading manufacturer of studio microphones. Wolfgang Fraissinet, president of Neumann, met with the group and showed them around the facilities.

The Belmont faculty invited Fraissinet to return the favor and visit Belmont if the opportunity arose, and he came to campus this week with Dawn Birr, Neumann’s commercial manager of audio recording. During their visit, the Neumann representatives toured Belmont facilities, and Fraissinet gave a presentation in the Johnson Center large theater on the many innovations the microphone industry has experienced from the dawn of recording to the present day, as well as his perspective on what the future of microphone technology may hold.

August Commencement Ceremony Set to Graduate 259 Students Friday

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August Commencement Ceremony Set to Graduate 259 Students Friday

Belmont University will hold its summer 2016 commencement ceremony for graduate and undergraduate students at 5 p.m. this Friday, Aug. 5, in the Curb Event Center. The ceremony will celebrate the graduation of a total of 259 students with 115 undergraduate, 107 master’s and 37 doctoral degrees scheduled to be conferred.

Dr. Bob Fisher, president of the University, will preside over the event, and Dr. Daniel Biles, professor of mathematics, will present the commencement address. Biles is the 2015-16 Presidential Faculty Achievement Award recipient, a title awarded for the outstanding contributions he has made to student success. Watch the graduation ceremony live by visiting www.belmont.edu during the ceremony and clicking the watch live link.

** A video of the August 2016 commencement ceremony is now available here. **

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