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Apple Expert Speaks to Belmont Students

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The future of Apple is in televisions with an application store for video games streamed straight to screens, Chartered Financial Analyst Tavis C. McCourt told Belmont University students.

McCourt, of Morgan Keegan, often is featured on CNBC as a top technology analyst and writes stock recommendations for large financial institutions that outsource to investment banks. He shared his thoughts and insights on the future of Apple and the personal and commercial PC/handheld markets during a lecture in the Neely Dining Room on Sept. 9.

“The easy answer to Apple’s success is it makes good products and that is obvious,” McCourt said. He cites the company’s vertical integration, in which it owns and makes its own software, and wealthy customers for Apple’s continued prosperity.

Apple also owns and controls its contacts with media companies and retail stores, avoiding third party companies, which maximizes profits. For instance, the iPhone should retail for $600 but Apple has wireless phone carrier companies subsidize the popular smart phone in exchange for exclusive contracts. Apple also does not profit from iTunes, but the iTunes marketing and retail strategy allows a platform that gives convenience as an incentive for companies and consumers to use Apple hardware, McCourt said.

“This integration of media and hardware allows Apple to by far make the highest profits in the industry,” he said.

Still, the technology company faces threats from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Samsung. With the departure of former chief executive officer Steve Jobs, Apple will lose top engineers to its competitors.

Freshman Nominated for Glamour’s Woman of the Year Readers’ Choice Award

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The compassionate work of a Belmont freshman is receiving national recognition.

Two years ago, Kelsey Kinsel of Las Vegas founded Salvation City, a suicide prevention organization that provides resources to teens battling depression.

This month she is one of five finalists selected by Glamour magazine for its 2011 Woman of the Year Readers’ Choice Award. Voting ends Sept. 23 and the winner will be announced at the end of the month. Read articles on Kinsel in The Tennessean and on MTV.com.

The two women with the most votes will go to New York City for Glamour’s Women of the Year red carpet event, where Kinsel said she hopes to touch toes with political celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Michelle Obama.

“It is not a monetary prize but it is a huge opportunity to spread the word about Salvation City and network with real influential women,” she said.

The award would be the pinnacle of her work that began when two friends committed suicide.

“I decided to do something to let people know if they were in the same situation they there are places that they can turn to help them,” Kinsel said. She since has been assembling an article compilation CD, creating posters and selling $3 wristbands to raise money to distribute suicide prevention resources to schools. Fox 5 KVVU in Las Vegas also have Salvation City a $1,000 grant.

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Lumos Award Winner Travels to China

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Sponsored by a Lumos Student Travel Award, a scholarship given to students who are interested in volunteering overseas for at least six weeks, Belmont student Henna Jurca was able to make her long-time dream of volunteering in China possible.

Initially traveling for academics through the Keats School, Jurca was able to fulfill her call to volunteer when her trip fell through. She decided to continue on with the Keats School’s Study + Volunteer program.

Although Jurca said the people she worked with were unfamiliar with service, and why someone would give without receiving she was able to provide a new example. “Having an impact on all of those people was the greatest reward,” she said.

Spending six weeks volunteering with a school for autistic children and a home for the elderly, Jurca said that although the experience was challenging, she is thankful for the lessons learned.

“I would say that I had some hard times along the way, but everything made me a stronger person,” she said.

Jurca said she is excited about additional opportunities to travel to China and is looking forward to helping more people along the way.

Songwriting Major Wins Christian Music Festival

Paul Chenoweth
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Emily Summers, sophomore songwriting major, was selected as the winner at ALIVE 11’s Christian music festival. The festival hosts a new talent search program where musicians are invited to submit a bio, photo and recording of an original song. Ultimately, after many performances and public voting contests, Summers was selected as grand prize winner to represent the ALIVE 11 Festival at the national talent search competition.

Summers now is competing, along with grand prize winners from surrounding festivals, in an online voting competition. The ultimate winner will tour with Christian bands to the 23 participating festivals around the country next summer.

Click here to hear more about Summers and listen to her music.

Andrew Webster Publishes Chapter on Enzymes

Paul Chenoweth
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Andrew Webster, chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences, recently published a chapter in the American Autonomic Society book Primer on the Autonomic Nervous System, Third Edition, Elsevier. The chapter “Acetylcholinesterase and its Inhibitors” is an overview of the activity of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase in the body and the drugs and chemical classes that impact the enzyme’s activity.

Edgar S. Diaz-Cruz Published in Cancer Research Journal

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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Assistant Professor Edgar S. Diaz-Cruz had an article on published in the Cancer Research Journal on Aug. 15. The article, titled “Comparison of increased aromatase versus ERa in the generation of mammary hyperplasia and cancer,” discusses whether development of breast cancer caused by over-expression of the receptor results from the same or different aberrant molecular pathways than that induced by increased local estrogen production through mammary-targeted aromatase expression.

Alumna Takes Second Place in SuperStar Contest

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Belmont University alumna Madison Michelle Hardy was runner-up for season three of the Beech Bend SuperStar Contest in Bowling Green, Ky.

A recent music business graduate of Belmont, Hardy of Philadelphia, Miss., now lives in the Nashville area and works as a receptionist while continuing to perform and pursue a career as a recording artist.

Recording artists, music producers, studio musicians, back-up singers, sound engineers, vocal coaches, artists and development studios and all genres of the music industry professionals have participated in the Bend SuperStar Contest. The SuperStar judges on the panel for the finale were Allen Laymen, Preshias Tomes-Harris, Jonell Polansky, Holly Jackson, and Brian Mansfield.

Students Serve In Honor of 9/11 Victims, Heroes

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On the 10th anniversary of the national tragedy, a group of Belmont University students volunteered in honor of 9/11 victims, survivors and heroes.

“I think it is important and an awesome opportunity to build something new and honor the buildings that fell,” said freshman Victoria Miller of Knoxville, Tenn. She and her roommate started their Sunday at 6:30 a.m. with Habitat for Humanity during a six-hour project with Lipscomb University students to renovate, revitalize and repair homes near Metro Center.

“It is awesome that people are coming together as a community to honor the lives that were lost that day and bring together America in the same unity and compassion as they did after the attacks,” she said.

Seventeen Belmont students and 15 Lipscomb students participated in the service project.

Belmont also is collaborated with Volunteer Tennessee, the State of Tennessee’s office dedicated to encouraging volunteerism and community service, which is providing the food, snacks and drinks for the Habitat Build volunteers; Room In The Inn, which also hosted 50 freshmen for the SERVE Project in August; and Hands On Nashville, which has created a dedicated University Portal for universities to use in publicizing, managing and tracking volunteer placements in the community.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama called for Americans to remember the spirit of unity and compassion that bound them together after the terrorist attacks by doing a charitable activity on Sept. 11. In 2009, the president signed into law the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, which federally authorized the day as an annually recognized National Day of Service and Remembrance.

Belmont University students continued their 9/11 remembrance service projects on Sept. 15 at Room in the Inn with students weeding gardens, cleaning the facility, storing donations and helping in the kitchen at the nonprofit organization that combats homelessness and hunger. Click here to view a video of the students discussing their memories of Sept. 11, 2001.

Alumna Appointed to Tennessee Justice Center Board

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Rebecca McKelvey, associate attorney at Stites & Harbison and a 2003 cum laude graduate of Belmont University, has joined the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Justice Center. The non-profit public interest law and advocacy firm serves underprivileged populations and gives priority to policy issues and civil cases in which basic necessities of life are at stake and where advocacy can benefit deserving families statewide.

McKelvey practices primarily in the area of domestic relations. After graduation from Belmont, McKelvey went onto Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law and received her juris doctorate in 2006, where she was lead articles editor of the Mercer Law Review, president of the Christian Legal Society (2005-2006) and vice president (2004-2005) of the Legal Aid Clinic. In June 2011, she was named one of Nashville’s “Top 30 Under 30” by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Belmont to Hold 9/11 Service of Remembrance Sunday

Paul Chenoweth
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This Sunday, Sept. 11, marks the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and on United Airlines Flight 93.  In honor of the 2,977 lives that were lost that day and the impact of this event on the nation and the world, Belmont University will hold a Service of Remembrance on campus on Sunday beginning at 3 p.m.

All students, faculty, staff, neighbors and members of the Nashville community are invited to gather at the Bell Tower in the center of Belmont’s campus for a brief time of Scripture reading and prayer. The Bell Tower carillon will sound 2,977 times that afternoon in honor of each victim of 9/11, and there will be an opportunity for those in attendance to take the name of a person who died in the events of that day in order to pray specifically for that victim’s family and friends.

The service itself will last approximately 10 minutes, after which those in attendance are invited to stay and pray in the Bell Tower Prayer Chapel or University Ministries in the Gabhart Student Center, both of which will be open until 5 p.m.  (The tolling of the bells is expected to take 90 minutes as each victim is honored.) In addition, a wreath will be placed at the Memorial Fountain on Belmont Blvd., which was built in the wake of 9/11. Those who would like can fill out a prayer card and attach it to the wreath.

Dr. Todd Lake, Belmont’s vice president for spiritual development, said, “Please join me and other members of the Belmont family as we honor the victims and heroes of Sept. 11, 2001 on this significant anniversary. Our thoughts and prayers remain with their friends and their families.”

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