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Trowbridge Keynote Speaker for the Cleveland Media Association Conference

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Kevin Trowbridge, instructor of public relations, delivered the keynote speech for the Cleveland Media Association’s 6th annual Fall Conference on Oct. 5, in Cleveland, Tenn. He was one of two inaugural speakers for the event when it first began five years ago. This year’s presentation, titled “Social Shift: Escalating Expectations for Today’s Media Landscape,” examined the emerging implications of social media for organizations and the mass media industry. The association is comprised of public relations, advertising and communication professionals—including journalists—in Southeast Tennessee.

 

Murphree Speaks on Insects at Local Elementary School

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Biology Professor Steve Murphree was invited by Belmont Masters in Education graduate Gretchen Pitts to speak at Kirkpatrick Full Option Elementary School. Murphree  presented an Insect Program to two groups of 125 children, Pre-K through fourth grade, on Oct. 4. Pitts was a former student in Murphree’s Elementary Science Methods class.

McDowell Has Works Published, Finalist for Writing Awards

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Assistant Professor of English Gary L. McDowel, has an essay forthcoming—an excerpt from a memoir-in-progress—in The Baltimore Review.  He also has poems forthcoming in the following literary journals: Southern Indiana Review, The Chattahoochee Review, South Dakota Review, Grist, Catch Up, Anti- and Ghost Town.  Recent poetry and prose has appeared in The Tusculum Review, Sou’wester, RHINO, Burnside Review, and Diode.  His new manuscript of poems has recently been a finalist for several awards, including the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award, the Alice James Books’ Beatrice Hawley Award, the Open Competition in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry and the University of Akron Poetry Series.

Foreign Language Department Celebrates Annual International Potluck Dinner

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The Department of Foreign Languages celebrated the annual International Potluck Dinner at the Bruins Clubhouse on Sept. 16. This event organized by the German professor Regine Schwarzmeier brought together Belmont faculty and students from many countries and languages for an evening of conversation and international cuisine.

Department chairman David C. Julseth requested the cooks introduce themselves and give a brief description of the dish they prepared and its country of origin.  Some of the many dishes sampled that evening included German Käsespätzle and Rote Grütze, French mini-éclairs and tarte aux pommes, Japanese Sushi, Argentine Puchero stew, Spanish Tortilla, Mexican Guacamole, Hungarian Chicken, Jiaozi (Chinese dumplings), Mung Bean Noodles and Chinese spring rolls and fried rice.

Massey Graduate School of Business Named a 2013 Best Business School by Princeton Review

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Seventh consecutive year Massey Graduate School receives honor

Belmont University’s Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business is an outstanding business school, according to education services company The Princeton Review. The company features the school in the new 2013 edition of its annual guidebook, “The Best 296 Business Schools” (Random House / Princeton Review). This is the seventh consecutive year the Massey Graduate School of Business has been listed in the Princeton Review’s ranking of best business schools.

“The Princeton Review is the most widely respected business school guide in the country. Belmont University business students say exactly what a top program would want: our programs are challenging, they prepare students for the dynamic global economy, and our faculty are accessible and knowledgeable. It is an honor to be listed for the seventh consecutive year,” said College of Business Administration Dean Patrick Raines.

“Our students and alumni will be pleased to see that our Princeton Review ranking continues,” said Associate Dean Joe Alexander. “And I feel certain Mr. Massey himself would be very proud to see that the program he first envisioned is now routinely mentioned in the same sentence as our nation’s other top graduate business programs.”

According to Robert Franek, Princeton Review Senior Vice President and Publisher, “We consider Belmont one of the best institutions a student could attend to earn an MBA. We selected the schools we profile in this book – 280 of which are in the U.S.A. and 16 are international — based on our high regard for their academic programs and our reviews of institutional data we collect from the schools. We also solicit and greatly respect the opinions of students attending these schools that rate and report on their experiences at them on our 80-question survey for the book.”

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Belmont’s Entrepreneurship Program Named Top in Nation for Teaching, Innovation

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Belmont University’s entrepreneurship program was honored as the top program in the country in teaching and innovation Saturday evening by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) during the organization’s annual conference. Designed to showcase and celebrate the very best of university entrepreneurship, the GCEC presented Belmont’s Center for Entrepreneurship with the Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation, an award whose prior recipients include Villanova University (PA), University of Maryland and Wake Forest University (NC). This year Belmont’s program beat out peer finalists from the University of North Carolina, University of Florida, University of Arizona, University of St Thomas and Milliken University to be named the top program.

The GCEC current membership totals 200 university-based entrepreneurship centers ranging in age from well established and nationally ranked to new and emerging centers. Each year a global conference is held on the campus of a GCEC member school with the 2012 conference held this past weekend at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of Belmont’s Center for Entrepreneurship and the Jack C. Massey chair of entrepreneurship, said, “We are honored to be singled out from a group of entrepreneurship programs that includes several of the leading programs in the country.  The fact that this award recognizes innovation in all aspects of our program, including undergraduate, graduate and co-curricular activities, is particularly rewarding.”

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Pharmacy Students Learn HIV Fundamentals

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In the first of its kind lecture series, the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) at Belmont University College of Pharmacy recently sponsored a seminar entitled “HIV 101” in partnership with nonprofit organization Nashville Cares.  The seminar was attended by 80 pharmacy students and faculty.

“Through this ongoing partnership with Nashville Cares our pharmacy students are gaining an edge to better serve and counsel patients with HIV/AIDS in the community,” said SNPhA faculty advise Edgar Diaz-Cru.

Nashville Cares representatives Amy Walter and Lisa Binkley will return to Belmont in the months ahead to present a second part of the lecture series.

Career Services Brings International Affairs Representative to Belmont

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On Oct. 1, a distinguished panel of international affairs representatives provided information about their graduate programs and careers in international affairs.  Representatives from Columbia University (School of International and Public Affairs), Georgetown University (Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service), Johns Hopkins University (Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies) and Tufts University (The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy) provided the interesting program.  Only three schools in Tennessee were selected for the visit. The program was sponsored by Career Services.

China Trip Students Compete in First Dragon Boat Race, Grad Students Take Fifth Place Overall

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Massey Graduate School of Business’ team placed fifth overall.

Two Belmont teams participated in the sixth annual Cumberland River Dragon Boat Race on Sept. 29.

Kun Peng Zhan Chi is comprised of students who went on a China study abroad trip and are studying China and the Chinese language. The team name translates to “the great Peng bird spreads it wings and flies;” the Peng bird is significant in Chinese tradition. The Massey Machine represented the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business. Last year, The Massey Machine placed second in the race.

Kun Peng Zhan Chi finished the race with a time of 1 minute, 20.329 seconds, ahead of the Confucius Institute at MTSU. The Massey Machine cruised into the final rounds with an extremely fast time of 1 minute, 07.317 seconds. They ultimately finished in fifth place overall, just one second behind the fourth place team.

Participants raced in traditional Chinese dragon boats. Each boat is 46 feet long and holds 20 paddlers, one drummer and one person to control the steering paddle. The Cumberland River Dragon Boat Festival began in 2006 and is put on by the Cumberland River Compact in celebration of their advocacy work. The event lasts throughout the entire day with a number of different events all in celebration of Chinese culture.

For more information regarding the race and the festival, go to nashvilledragonboat.org.

Belmont University Celebrates Grand Opening of McAfee Concert Hall

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Inaugural season offers series of six concerts

Welcoming guests and the campus community with a brass ensemble, Belmont University celebrated today the official grand opening of the new McAfee Concert Hall. Originally built in the 1950s, the building located at 2100 Belmont Blvd. served in recent years as a rehearsal, classroom and practice space for many Belmont music groups as well as the main sanctuary for Belmont Heights Baptist Church. The University purchased the property from the church in 2003, but Belmont Heights continues to meet in the complex. In summer 2011, Belmont began a $9 million renovation of the space in order to provide the campus a new, large concert venue suitable for acoustic performances. The building is now named in honor of the McAfee family, who has supported Belmont University for years and provided the lead gift for the project.

Belmont President Dr. Bob Fisher said, “We are incredibly grateful to the McAfee family for their generous gift to make this venue possible. Their commitment to the university has enabled us to build a concert space that matches the high quality of our music programs, and one that will appropriately showcase the amazing talent of our performing arts students. My hope is that the entire Nashville community will be able to enjoy the inspired concerts that will occur in this beautiful new hall.”

Lead donor Carolyn McAfee has served on Belmont’s Board of Trustees since 2006, and her late husband Jim, president and CEO of Hallmark Systems Inc., served on the board from 2002 until his untimely death in 2004. In addition to their time on the board, the McAfees also support Belmont through an endowed scholarship in their name for School of Music students with a major in organ or classical music.

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