Professors Jean Blank, Beth Hallmark, Sara Camp and Leslie Folds recently presented at the Eighth Annual International Nursing Simulation/Learning Resource Centers Conference in St. Louis. Designed for nursing educators, researchers, lab managers and staff development specialists, the conference highlights simulation technology and lab management issues. Belmont’s simulation center is recognized nationally as one of only 12 Laerdal Centers of Educational Excellence in the U.S. The conference included about 650 attendees from around the world.
Folds and Hallmark presented a seminar on “Using High Fidelity Simulation in Place of Inpatient Psychiatric Nursing Clinicals.” Blank and Camp presented a poster titled “Teaching with Medium Fidelity Technology.” Hallmark also presented a poster, in collaboration with Dr. Debra Wollaber, titled “Teaching Students within a Culture of Safety” and presented a poster with Teresa Britt of UT Memphis.

Dr. Peter Giordano, chair of Psychology, has published an edited book titled Your Career in Psychology: Putting Your Graduate Degree to Work. Edited with Stephen Davis and Carolyn Licht and published by Wiley-Blackwell, the book targets very early career psychologists or those about to complete graduate training in psychology who are going on the job market.
One of the chapters in the book (“The Life of a College Professor: Teaching, Research, and Service”) is authored by Dr. Lonnie Yandell, professor of Psychology at Belmont. Another chapter (“Negotiating the Application and Interview Process”) is written by Dr. Christia Spears-Brown, an alumna of Belmont’s Psychology Department who is now a faculty member at the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Sal Giorgianni, director of experiential education and development in the School of Pharmacy, was recently quoted in a U.S. News & World Report story titled “Men and Health: This Father’s Day, Look After Your Man’s Health.” Click here to read the article.

Dr. Marilyn Thompson Odom, associate professor in the School of Pharmacy, recently served as a Scientist Reviewer for the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program in Breast Cancer. The review panel met June 7-9 in Reston, Va. This program partners consumers (survivors) and scientists in the review process for grant applications proposing innovative, high-impact research that focuses on the eradication of breast cancer. This is Dr. Odom’s second year serving as a peer reviewer for this funding mechanism.

Cheryl L. Slay, assistant professor of Music Business, and Steve Schnur, an adjunct professor of music business for Belmont West, were both recently selected for the 2010 class of Leadership Music, a non-profit organization whose mission is to nurture a knowledgeable, issue-oriented community of music industry professionals.

Dr. Andy Watts, assistant professor in the School of Religion, wrote an editorial in Saturday’s Tennessean titled “Will a ‘celebration bullet’ take an innocent life?” Click here to read his article.

Dr. Don Cusic, professor of music business, will appear on “A Word on Words,” the PBS show hosted by John Seigenthaler, on Sun., July 5 to discuss his book Discovering Country Music. In addition, during CMA Week, Cusic did an interview with Dirk Rohrbach, who hosts a show on Bayern3 radio, a public radio station in Munich. The interview will be broadcast in Germany and Austria on Sun., June 28. Listeners can hear it at 5 p.m. CDT at Bayern3.de.
Also, Cusic and Belmont Professor of Finance Dr. Greg Faulk recently published an article titled “Popular Culture and the Economy” in the current edition of the Journal of Popular Culture.