Belmont’s Beta Beta Beta (Tri-Beta) Biological Honor Society recently sponsored a program by the Wings to Soar Birds of Prey Rehabilitation Program, a nonprofit organization that cares for injured birds of prey unable to survive on their own by creating awareness for the importance of birds of prey through interactive outreach programs.
During Tri-Beta’s program, participants watched a video, listed to music and had the unique opportunity to view birds in action as they flew overhead.
Assistant Professor of Legal Practice Elizabeth Usman published an article titled, “Making Legal Education Stick: Using Cognitive Science to Foster Long-Term Learning in the Legal Writing Classroom by Elizabeth Adamo Usman” that was featured on “Legal Skill Prof Blog” today, March 31.
The article was originally published in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics.
Salwa Saba, senior international politics major with minors in Chinese and economics at Belmont, was recently awarded another Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State under its program to help students master critical foreign languages.
Salwa will be studying in Taiwan where she will participate in group-based language and cultural immersion programs. Salwa was assisted in her application by Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Chinese Language Dr. Qingjun Li.
Katie Boatman, Belmont lecturer in art and director of galleries, has been selected as a participant in the Contemporary Chinese Art Institute sponsored by the Confucius Institute of Western Kentucky University. Boatman will travel to Beijing to visit the 798 Art District and work with artists there who hope to expand their influence in the U.S. She will be joining other curators and directors of museums and galleries in the U.S. who may host an exhibition on Contemporary Chinese art. She’s assisted in her participation by Belmont’s Asian Studies program.
Boatman has also exhibited her work in Italy at the International Center for the Arts in Montecastello di Vibio and held an artist residency at the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, California. For more information on Katie Boatman, click here.
Haskell Murray, assistant professor of management and business law at Belmont, presented on social enterprise law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law’s 29th Annual Corporate Law Center Symposium on Marth 18.
The participating invited speakers included law professors from University of Colorado and the University of Washington and practitioners from private law firms and businesses including The Kroger Company and The Proctor & Gamble Company. The title of this year’s symposium was “Corporate Social Responsibility and the Modern Enterprise.” Murray’s talk was entitled “Beyond Benefit Corporations: Exploring Competing Social Enterprise Legal Forms.”
Belmont’s Office of Community Relations, the Welcome Home Team and seven Nashville supplier diversity leaders recently partnered to participate in the first Supplier Diversity “Coffee Connection” at Belmont. Among the organizations represented were the Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Nashville Area Black Chamber of Commerce, Metro Nashville Airport Authority, Metro Nashville Government, Tri- State Minority Supplier Development Council, Nashville Minority Business Center and the Small Business Administration.
The event provided the opportunity for more than 30 minority- and women-owned businesses to meet with purchasers from Belmont’s Auxiliary Services and Facilities Management Services Departments. “We are excited to engage with our partners to continue developing our capacity and commitment to doing business with minority suppliers,” said Belmont’s Director of Community Relations Joyce Searcy. “Additionally, we hope to develop a supplier base that reflects Nashville’s diversity.”
“There was a buzz of excitement in the air as we welcomed new potential suppliers into the program,” said Barbara Bell, doctoral intern for the Office of Community Relations. For further information on the program, click here.
Claire Wiley, research and instruction librarian, recently presented at the Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) in Dublin, Ireland. The presentation titled “Bridging the International Divide: A Systematic Review of International Students and Information Literacy” focused on best practices and recommendations from the literature for serving international students in the library setting.
Drew Ramsey, instructor of songwriting, co-wrote Mark Broussard’s song “Home” with Marc and Ted Broussard, Marshall Altman, Drew Ramsey, and Shannon Sanders and the song was used to promote the Dec. 21 Monday night football Saints/Lions game.
Additionally, Ramsey recently wrote and recorded with Gloria Gaynor for her new project at RCA Studio A.
Pictured above: Ramsey, Gaynor and Ramsey’s writing/production partner Shannon Sanders
Dr. Cheryl Carr, associate professor of music business, recently presented “Progressive Teaching: Infusing Difficult Conversations in Intellectual Property (IP) Classes” at the second annual Mosaic Conference: Diverse Voices in IP Scholarship at Marquette University Law School. Carr offered pedagogical insights and methodologies for incorporating intellectual property law social justice topics including race, ethnicity, religion and gender in copyright, trademark and other IP course content.
The Mosaic Conference seeks to “bring together IP scholars, policymakers, and activists of diverse and multicultural backgrounds to explore socially progressive ideas in IP law, policy and social activism…to provide a forum for progressive scholarship.”
