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Sodexo Partners with ‘Bridges to Belmont’ to Provide 20 Meal-Plan Scholarships

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Following the March 26 announcement of Belmont University’s new Bridges to Belmont program, the campus’ dining services provider Sodexo offered a gift of 20 meal plans to support the initiative. The Bridges to Belmont program is designed to enroll 25 high potential students from Metro Nashville Public Schools who may not have previously been able to consider Belmont as an option.

Photo from March 26 groundbreaking
Sodexo’s Fred Formichella and “Miss Tonya” unveil a rendering of the new Academic and Dining Services Complex during the March 26 groundbreaking ceremony.

Belmont Vice President and Chief of Staff Dr. Susan West said, “Sodexo has partnered with Belmont for more than two decades, and I have seen first-hand their investment in our students and in this community. Sodexo’s generosity in supporting our new Bridges to Belmont initiative is indicative of the values, excellence and commitment that make this company such a perfect fit for our campus.”

The donation of the meal plans for Bridge scholars came on the heels of Sodexo’s announcement that the company is investing in the construction of Belmont’s new academic and dining services complex.

Sodexo Senior Vice President Fred Formichella said, “Once again two great cultures come together to create and support a very unique program, one that both Belmont and Sodexo will be proud of for many years to come.”

In addition to the full scholarships, the Bridges to Belmont program will focus on creating a learning and service environment to empower students’ personal passion to meet the needs of the world. Bridge students will live and work on campus the summer prior to enrollment while attending an intensive institute that will allow them to take full advantage of the opportunities the college environment will offer. Programming will focus on quantitative reasoning, writing, public speaking skills and research methods as well as on creating a community of learners. The summer immersion program also will include community service and social activities for participants.

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Producer Offers Inaugural Motion Pictures Master Class

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Todd Harris head shotBelmont University’s new program in motion pictures announced today the inaugural workshop in a series of master classes for the program.  Special guest J. Todd Harris, a producer of more than 40 feature films including 2010 hit, The Kids Are All Right, will lead the first workshop, “Producing the Independent Film,” on Mon., April 15 from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. in the campus’ Neely Dining Room. This event is free and open to the public.

Harris noted that this workshop will be a practical guide for individuals who are new to, or are looking to learn about, production. “As a producer, you have to inspire people to give you money, give you time, effort and compassion,” he said. “You have to create a sense of higher purpose and credibility. You have to pick and manage a team and take them the distance. I find credibility to be a huge factor for all kinds of producing. You have to convince yourself that you have a valid project and then go about convincing dozens of others.”

Over the course of the three-hour workshop, Harris will guide attendees through the entire cycle of producing, including obtaining rights, developing a project, pitching a film, packaging and financing a movie, marketing, distribution and much more.

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Doss Selected for Competitive Johns Hopkins Internship

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Emily Doss, a second year student in Belmont’s College of Pharmacy, has been selected for a position in the Johns Hopkins Pharmacy internship program in Baltimore, Md.  Of the 22 students selected for this internship, Doss is the only student selected from a pharmacy program within Tennessee.  Doss will  work as a pharmacy intern at the home care site at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 12 weeks this summer.  This internship provides opportunities to shadow both pharmacists and pharmacy residents working in various specialties.  Dr. Condit Steil, chairman of Pharmacy Practice at Belmont’s College of Pharmacy, as well as Dr. Naftilan, a physician working with students in the Vanderbilt Program in Interprofessional Learning (VPIL), of which Doss is a part, encouraged her participation in the program.

Social Work Students Win Poster Competition

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This year Belmont’s BSW program won first place in the poster competition. Belmont University’s Bachelor in Social Work program won first place in the poster competition at Social Work Day on the Hill on March 27. The students presented their policy analysis on Senate Bill 0804 and House Bill 0937 (to amend Tennessee Code Annotated Title 4 and Title 71) in order to ensure Tennessee’s present and future governors preserve the state’s right to deny expansion of Medicaid.

Social Work Day on the Hill is an annual event sponsored by the National Association of Social Workers. Practitioners, educators and students from all over the state come together at Legislative Plaza to discuss the policy responses to the issues that impact our profession and the clients we serve. In addition to presenting knowledgeable speakers and legislators, the event serves as a call to action and is a unifying experience that links the practice community to social welfare policy.

Pharmacy Students Serve at Faith Family Medical Clinic

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Six pharmacy students volunteered at Faith Family Medical Clinic on 21st Avenue North on March 21. They reconciled medications with people with diabetes at the clinic, which offers the service without charge. The students worked under the supervision of Belmont College of Pharmacy Director of Experiential Education Mark J. Chirico and served 28 patients. It was the first event of its kind at this clinic, and the students plan to volunteer at the clinic each quarter.

“I had one provider remark how much easier her job was when she saw the patients after they had already met with pharmacy. This was a big day for Faith Family, Journey to Health and many of our patients. We received so much positive feed back that we will definitely be offering this again,” said Faith Family Medical Clinic Director of Operations Joshua Southards.

 

 

Speakers Series Teaches Students to Leverage Themselves in Digital World

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Socialnomics author Erik Qualman shared his five keys for students to leave a “stamp” in today’s digital world during a Friday morning convocation in the Frist Lecture Hall.

His talk focused on how social media users can utilize tools at their fingertips through the use of his “stamp” acronym, which stands for simple, true, act, map and plan. He urged students to focus on their outputs, such as starting a fashion line, organizing a nonprofit or writing a screenplay instead of exerting energy into throughputs, such as tweets, text messages and emails.

“So many of us fall into a trap that we are working for social media, but we have these social accounts working for us,” he said. He shared the story of how while on vacation he set his out of office automatic reply to appear that his mailbox account was full and directed people to resend correspondence after a certain date.

Instead of logging onto digital accounts first thing in the morning, social media users should get out two outputs to ensure they have productive days and use social media to leverage their work. Qualman also encouraged students to be firm in their destination and flexible in their path as well as network and build relationships today before they are needed in the future.

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World Culture Fest Showcases Belmont’s Diversity

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Belmont hosted its first World Culture Fest on March 22 in Neely Dining Hall in an effort to showcase the campus’ diversity.

The event was an opportunity for students and employees to demonstrate culture and heritage through dance, music, fashion and other art forms. Several student organizations had booths representing different world cultures for students to learn, ask questions, examine study abroad opportunities that would immerse them in the culture and participate in a cultural activity.

The Black Student Association, Rumi Club and International Business Society co-sponsored the festival in partnership with the Student Government Association and Student Activities Programming Board.

Among the performances were spoken word, the Argentine Tango, a Latin American dance medley,  a New Zealand Spinning performance art, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. step performance as well as songs in Spanish, Japanese and Swahili. Booths and tables represented Southeast Asian, Irish, Caribbean, Persian, Japanese, Russian, African, Latin American, Chinese and Middle Eastern cultures, and students served food and provided activities including origami, calligraphy and Henna tattoos.

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Bennett Speaks at TEDxNashville

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Media Studies Associate Professor Sybril Bennett spoke April 6 at the TEDxNashville “Next” event at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Click here to view the lecture.

Bennett’s lecture was based on research she conducted for her soon-to-be released book, Innovate:Lessons from the Underground Railroad, in which she compares the Internet to the Underground Railroad. Her talk showed how the forming of flash mobs to escort escaped Africans to safety and the discussions of freedom, access, boundaries and privacy show how the past continues to be a part of the future.

An article previewing her lecture was featured on the front page of the April 4 issue of The Tennessee Tribune.

Mayor Recognizes Belmont with Gold Seals, Awards

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Belmont University received many accolades during the  Nashville Mayor’s Workplace Challenge for its role in engaging the community through volunteer service, fostering a healthy workplace and promoting a healthy and active lifestyle as well as sustaining the environment through green practices.

During an awards breakfast on April 5 in Lipscomb’s Allen Arena, Belmont was awarded the Top Score Award as well as the Innovation Award. The University also received a gold seal, the highest designation, in the Involved, Green and Healthy categories.

The University also is featured in the Nashville Business Journal for its Mayor’s Workplace Challenge Awards.

Learning Community Courses Tour Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant

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On Mar. 21, College of Business Administration Adjunct Instructor Paul McCullough and Associate Professor of Chemistry Dr. Rachel Rigsby took their linked Learning Community Courses to the Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant in Hollywood, Ala.

Before beginning the tour, each student had to register individually as part of a safety procedure.

McCullough and Rigsby’s courses, economic inquiry and entry-level chemistry respectively, are linked through the concept of energy, which was reinforced by the trip to the power plant. “The reason for doing nuclear energy is that it’s less expensive—once you get the plant,” said McCullough. “Building is expensive.”

The Bellefonte plant had to close down during construction due to a lack of funding. After the stoppage in the late 1980s, construction resumed in 2010, and the plant is scheduled to be fully complete in 2015.

“It was interesting because we got to hear the economics behind building a plant—and they didn’t plan, so they had to start and stop,” said Brendan Wright, a sophomore audio engineering technology major.

The tour was given by a man who had spent more than 30 years working at the plant. “He ended up addressing things without us mentioning them,” said McCullough. In order to take the tour, the group had to gear up as part of safety protocol. They donned hard hats, gloves and goggles.

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