Assistant Professor of Audio Engineering Nathan Adam recently worked on a focus group on strategic planning for the future of the Grammy foundation at The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles.
Adam Serves on Grammy Focus Group
Students Host Billy Currington on Campus
Billy Currington played and spoke at the first CMA EDU event of the year on Sept. 30. CMA EDU supports full-time undergraduate college students in their pursuit of a music industry career by offering them networking opportunities and other industry experiences. In return, CMA leverages these groups for research, marketing and promotional use on their respective campuses.
Belmont, TSU Partner to Give Edgehill Residents Flu Shots
Belmont and Tennessee State Universities collaborated to administer flu shots to residents of the I. W. Gernert Towers in Edgehill during an October health fair. TSU nursing instructor Noble-Britton and Belmont Professor of Nursing Ruby Dunlap supervised TSU nursing students as they gave shots and checked blood pressures. Belmont provided the flu vaccines and supplies. Nearly two dozen residents received the flu shot. Belmont’s Health services has donated the materials for seven years.
Kennedy Hall Raises More Than $2,500 for Childhood Cancer Patients
What does it mean to “Be Bold, Be Brave, Be Bald”? Just ask the residents of Kennedy Hall, a sophomore co-ed residence hall with 200 students, who last week raised more than $2,500 for Camp No Worries, through a “Be Bold, Be Brave, Be Bald” initiative. Camp No Worries is a week-long summer camp for pediatric cancer patients in New Jersey. In order to raise the money, 11 Kennedy residents pledged to shave their heads if a predetermined amount of money–the students’ goal was $2,000–was raised in the two weeks prior to the event on Oct. 10.
The Kennedy Hall staff chose to host the fundraiser to fulfill a programming requirement for University theme “Through the Eyes of Others.” Earlier in the year the staff decided that children’s cancer was a cause that mattered to each of them, and they wanted to do something to benefit these pediatric patients.
At the event last Thursday night, Belmont nursing students and cancer survivors Natalie Seale and Katherine Arnold each spoke about their own battles against the disease. Arnold said, “My experience with the nurses at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, many of them Belmont grads, definitely influenced my decision to become a nursing major and coming to Belmont. The whole community over there became like a second family.”
Belmont University Named a 2014 Best Private University by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance has included Belmont University on its list of the country’s best values in private universities. Kiplinger’s annual list ranks 100 private universities and 100 liberal arts colleges. The top 50 colleges and top 50 universities appear in Kiplinger’s December issue—on newsstands November 5. The full list is available online now at www.kiplinger.com/links/college.
Belmont and the other schools included in the 2014 lists represent the colleges that provide high-quality academics at a reasonable cost. The colleges exemplify the attributes parents and students look for in higher education, including small class sizes, a good freshman retention rate and a high four-year graduation rate.
“With President Obama’s recent emphasis on rating colleges and universities based on their value, our rankings serve as a valuable resource to help students and families make more informed choices,” says Janet Bodnar, editor of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. “Combining a high-quality education with an affordable price tag is a challenge, but the colleges on this year’s list offer the best of both worlds.”
Pharmacy Students Active in Fight Against HIV/AIDS
Thirty-five members of Belmont’s Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) and faculty walked in the Oct. 5 HIV/AIDS Walk for Nashville Cares and raised more than $1,700 through individual donations and a bake sale to benefit the organization. Nashville Cares provides life-saving services to Middle Tennesseans living with HIV/AIDS as well as offers education, prevention and awareness of HIV/AIDS.
SNPhA members attended an HIV 101 Seminar, during which a speaker from Nashville Cares spoke to members on the history of HIV/AIDS in the United States, the importance of education and prevention and the specific challenges that patients with HIV/AIDS face.
The students also hosted a unique Q&A session on Oct. 10 with Kevin Hartman, pharmacist and owner of Nashville Pharmacy Services. Hartman is AAHIVP-certified by the American Academy of HIV Medicine, meaning he is a pharmacy specialist in HIV care. Hartman is a great source of information regarding how pharmacists can better serve special populations of patients.
Christian Publishes Works, Organizes Programs
School of Religion Adjunct Mark A. Christian (’94) has chaired the “Expressions of Religion in Israel” program unit of the annual, International Meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature (ISBL) since 2008. The program unit has recently been approved to continue through 2017. From the papers of the 2012 ISBL meeting in Amsterdam, Christian has coedited a special edition of the peer-reviewed journal Die Welt des Orients 43, Jahrgang (in press, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, Germany) with Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt of Münster, Germany. The theme is “Permutations of Astarte in Israelite and Mediterranean Religions.” In addition to coediting, Christian contributed the paper “Phoenician Maritime Religion: Sailors, Goddess Worship, and the Grotta Regina” and coauthored the “Introduction” with Schmitt.
Christian has recently published reviews in peer-reviewed journals of two books from the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte published in Wiesbaden, Germany by Harrassowitz. The first, “Deuteronomium: Tora für eine neue Generation“(eds., G. Fischer, D. Markl, S. Paganini; 2011) contains German and English essays by leading European biblical scholars on the Book of Deuteronomy and Pentateuchal theory. The review is published in the Review of Biblical Literature, vol. 07, 2013. The second, “The Foreigner and the Law: Perspectives from the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (eds. R. Achenbach, R. Albertz, and J. Wöhrle; 2011), is an anthology of English essays concerned with the status of foreigners in the ancient world as reflected in biblical and ancient Near Eastern legal texts. The review is published in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, vol. 13, 2013.
For the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Baltimore this Nov. 23-26, Christian has organized a panel of international scholars to review the book Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel (Westminster John Knox, 2011). The book is written by Douglas A. Knight of Vanderbilt University. The program unit hosting the event is the Social Sciences and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures section. Christian serves on the steering committee and will be moderating the panel in Baltimore.
Professor Selected as Distinguished Lecturer
Dr. Beth Hallmark, director of simulation for the Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences & Nursing and assistant professor of nursing, is this year’s featured speaker for the Christine P. Sharpe Distinguished Lecture Series at Tennessee State University. Hallmark will make her presentation about creative learning strategies on Oct. 17. The lecture series was established in 2000 to honor Sharpe, retired associate dean and co-founder of TSU’s School of Nursing. The lecture is held annually and has included health care leaders, researchers and educators who have delivered cutting edge and thought provoking presentations about a wide range of topics in health, nursing education and public policy. The lecture will be held in Room 118 of the James E. Farrell & Fred E. Westbrook Agricultural Complex,known as “The Barn,” on TSU’s campus from at 7 p.m. A reception will follow. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Hallmark has been part of the faculty at Belmont University since 1996. She holds a PhD in Educational Leadership with a concentration in E-Learning. She has extensive experience in pediatric nursing, primarily at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville. At Belmont, she has guided the integration of patient simulation into the curriculum of the School of Nursing and is leading the effort to increase the use of simulation in all health science programs in the College of Health Sciences and the College of Pharmacy. Hallmark also serves as director of the Tennessee Simulation Alliance, an inter-professional alliance promoting the use of patient simulation in educational environments throughout the state. Simulation is an educational strategy to mirror, anticipate, or amplify real situations with guided experiences in a fully interactive way. Simulation is enhanced through the use of technology with computer-based patient simulators. Simulation is an excellent training resource that promotes patient safety.
Pethel Essay Included in Book on Women Athletes
Honors adjunct instructor Mary Ellen Pethel’s essay “Sport and the Outward Life: Young Women Athletes as Progressive Players” was published this month in the edited anthology was published entitled Tennessee Women in the Progressive Era: Toward the Public Sphere in the New South Her chapter discusses the first generation of female athletes in Nashville and Knoxville. As such, Belmont College for Young Women, Ward Seminary and Vanderbilt University are heavily featured. The book is available on Amazon and UT Press and recently was featured at the Southern Festival of Books.
Student Presents at Hispanic Heritage Festival
Senior accounting major Maribel Onate, also treasurer of the Hispanic Student Alliance, gave a presentation at the recent Hispanic Heritage Festival at the Global Mall.
