Audio Engineering Assistant Professor Eric Tarr had a manuscript accepted for publication to The International Journal of Audiology.  The title of the article is “Low-frequency signals support perceptual organization of implant-simulated speech for adults and children.” The article discusses how the combination of hearing aids and cochlear implants can be used to improve speech perception for listeners with hearing loss.

Songwriting adjunct Shaun Shankel co-wrote a song that will be used in the show “Nashville” episode No. 214.  The song is called “Who I Am.” In the ABC television show, character Gunnar writes and sings it for Will.

Professor of Music Business Don Cusic received the “President’s Award” from the Western Music Association recently. Cusic was editor of their quarterly publication, The Western Way, for 13 years. Cusic also inducted Louise Massey and the Westerners into the Western Music Hall of Fame while actor and singer Johnny Western inducted Johnny Cash.

Music business adjunct Rob Cheplicki is serving as producer of this year’s ICiT films. ICiT is a local non-profit organization that works with under-served youth at the YMCA, and takes them through a month long screenwriting camp, where they learn how to write and finish a script.  A script is chosen from each group and given to a professional producer and director and turned into a world-class film. Production for both films will be completed by the end of January, and ICiT has partnered with the Nashville Film Festival so that both films will be premiered at the festival in the spring and also have set up TV distribution with NECAT that will broadcast both films on Comcast and Uverse in the spring. This is a life changing opportunity for these youth, who are literally able to have their voice heard for the first time,  and also an incredible opportunity for the Nashville film community to bring original narrative film to life with such powerful backing, and remarkable distribution already in place.

Career Development Specialist Lori Bumgarner is among “49 Female Music Entrepreneurs (Sharing) Their Best Advice” on Hypebot.com.

“Never try to do things exactly the way others tell you to do it or exactly the same way they did it. Promotion of your brand has to be done in a way that is true to you. Not every species of flower blooms at the same rate or under the same conditions,” she told the online publication.

Belmont School of Music faculty member Sandra Dudley has released a brand new CD on Cognito Records called “All Of My Life” with friend and jazz pianist, Lori Mechem.   Mechem is a former piano instructor at Belmont and the director of the Nashville Jazz Workshop with husband and bassist, Roger Spencer.  Dudley has been teaching voice in the commercial music department since 1995.  The duo project is a tribute to the legendary lyricists, Alan and Marilyn Bergman.  The Bergmans have written lyrics for songs put to music by composers such as Michel Legrand and Marvin Hamlisch, and performed by countless artists including Barbra Steisand-a lifelong friend.  Dudley and Mechem recorded the  project in early August and celebrated the release on Nov. 17 at the Nashville Jazz Workshop to a standing room only crowd.  The Bergmans have been involved with the project from the beginning adding a quote and picture to the project.  The album also includes two previously unrecorded Bergman songs.

On Nov. 23, Dr. Amanda Miller, assistant professor of religion, presented a paper called “The Nazareth Proclamation:  Nuancing Luke’s Resistance” at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Baltimore, Md.

On Nov. 24, Dr. Mark McEntire, professor of religion, presented a paper called “Stopping the Pendulum in the Middle:  Mediating between Historical and Literary Approaches to the Prophetic Literature” at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Baltimore, Md.

On Nov. 23, the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion hosted a panel discussion of Mark McEntire’s recent book, Portraits of a Mature God:  Choices in Old Testament Theology.

Music Business faculty Rush Hicks, Jennifer Fowler and Stuart Fowler have an article published in the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association’s  MEIEA Journal (Vol. 13, No. 1 (2013)) entitled: “A Historical Investigation of Patterns in Sophomore Album Release.”