Belmont University recognized its student athletes Monday at the 2005-06 Belmont Scholar-Athlete Recognition Reception Awards. Presentations were made for team and individual awards for academic achievement and character.
Following is a complete list of this year’s recipients:
SAAC Inspiration Awards:
Faculty: Dr. Pete Giordano
Staff: Michael Moore
David Fish Award:
Brenna Lacey
Academic Achievement Awards (highest GPA per team):
Baseball: Matt Warnat
Men’s Basketball: Michael Modlin
Women’s Basketball: Jenny Conkle
Cheerleading: Andrea Robertson
Men’s Cross Country: Brad Polley
Women’s Cross Country: Lauren Williams
Dance Team: Jennifer Farmer
Men’s Golf: Jarryd Foreman
Women’s Golf: Kate Austin
Men’s Soccer: Channing Twyner
Women’s Soccer: Kari Lennon
Softball: Stacey Apple
Men’s Tennis: Alex Gillott
Women’s Tennis: Elizabeth Conyer
Men’s Track & Field: Stephen Register
Women’s Track & Field: Lauren Williams
Volleyball: Lindsay Cleveland
Graduating Senior Academic Achievement Awards:
Chris Marlow
Brandon Paetznick
Lindsay Cleveland
Director of Athletics’ Character Award:
John Baldwin
Lindsay Honea
President’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year:
Felipe Lima
Lindsay Cleveland
Belmont Honors Student-Athletes
The Tennessean Covers Vigil for Darfur Held at Belmont
The Tennessean recently reported on a vigil held at Belmont University on Sunday to commemorate those who have died in the Darfur region of Sudan. Belmont history professor and co-founder of Tennesseans Against Genocide, Daniel Schafer, was interviewed in the story.
Wollaber Named Woman to Watch by Nashville Medical News
Debra Wollaber, dean of the Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences & Nursing at Belmont University, was selected as one of the 10 women to watch by Nashville Medical News. The women chosen have made a significant impact on the delivery of health care in Middle Tennessee and beyond.
Click here to read the article.
College of Business Hosts Venture Capital Symposium
Dr. Mark T. Schenkel and Dr. John Gonas hosted a symposium for Belmont students and alumni on behalf of the College of Business Adminstration focusing on current trends in venture capital and private equity markets of Middle Tennessee. Over 100 attendees from Belmont University and the surrounding Nashville community gathered to hear about the alternatives available to business owners and financers of small businesses.
Three prominent representatives from local investment firms spoke on the panel: Linda Costello, managing director of investment banking of Avondale Partners; Stuart McWhorter, managing partner of Clayton Associates; and Gary Peat, partner of Council Ventures. Special topics discussed at the symposium included entrepreneurial, mezzanine and growth capital demand in addition to deal flow differences between industries such as investment banking, technology and health care.
Best of the Best Showcase 2006 to be held April 29
NASHVILLE, April 25, 2006 – The Belmont University Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business presents its annual Best of the Best Showcase on Saturday, April 29 at 7 p.m. in the Curb Event Center. This will be the largest student produced showcase in Belmont history and will feature some of the most talented up-and-coming artists in Nashville from a variety of genres including Pop/Rock, Christian/Gospel, Jazz, Bluegrass, Country, and Urban.
The performers are the winners from previous showcases that were held earlier this school year and include:
• Mikeschair – Winner of the Christian Music Showcase
• Rob Blackledge – Winner of the Pop/Rock Showcase
• Ryan Griffin – Winner of the Country Music Showcase
• Soul Force – Winner of the Other Showcase
• Alvin Love – Winner of the Urban Showcase
• Bobby Hamrick, Clark Richard, Ben Cooper, Troy Akers, and Zac Koffler – Winners of the Writer’s
Series Showcases
The evening is entirely produced and managed by students of The Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business at Belmont as they gain hands-on experience in lighting, live sound, event production, set design, publicity, artist management, stage direction, engineering and video production. The showcase is free of charge and open to the public. For more information contact Christy Baumiller at CEMBPressCorps@mail.belmont.edu or 615.460.6272.
USA Today Editor Speaks At Belmont
Ken Paulson, editor of USA Today, the nation’s largest daily general interest newspaper, spoke at Belmont University today, concluding the 2005-06 New Century Journalism Speaker Series. Paulson assumed the role of editor at USA today one month after Jack Kelley, a long-time, respected journalist at the newspaper, was fired for fabricating stories in 2004.
Paulson spoke about his career in journalism, the continued importance of newspapers in today’s ever-changing media and USA Today‘s committment to a strong code of ethics.
Prior to his role at USA Today, Pauslson worked in Nashville for seven years as the director of the First Amendment Center. For four years, he hosted the Emmy-nominated, nationally televised PBS program “Speaking Freely,” dedicated to free expression and the arts.
Philosophy Student Presents Paper at Conference
Philosophy major, Joshua Wolak, attended a Philsosphy Conference held at the State University of New York in Oneonta, N.Y., and presented his paper titled “Autochthony: Heidegger, Meta-Philosophy, and Meditation”. Of the more than thirty papers presented, Wolak received one of four “President’s Award’s” for his excellent work and presentation of the paper.
Students Present at NCUR
Students from the School of Sciences presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) held at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, April 6-8.
Mathematics
Assessing a Math Inquiry Class: Do Students Gain an Appreciation for Mathematics?
Oral Presentation by Renee Torres, Kacie Kleja and Eninka Kombe
Biology
Expression of ASIC2 MRNA in Brain Tumors
Oral Presentation by Brooke Goodman
Biology: Molecular Biology
The Effects of Calcineurin Inhibition on Cocaine-Seeking Behavior in The Mouse Model
Poster Presentation by Neeti Sasi
Belmont Professor Pens Song on Dove-Award Winning, Platinum Album
James I. Elliott, assistant professor of entertainment & music business, co-wrote the song “Time That Is Left” that is included on Mark Schultz Live: A Night of Stories & Songs. In addition to being named the Long Form Video of the Year at the 37th Annual Dove Awards on April 5, the project was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA) the same week.
“Time That Is Left” was also featured on the soundtrack of the motion picture End of the Spear earlier this year.
School of Music Faculty Spend Time in Germany
Kris Elsberry and Elisabeth Small of the School of Music have just returned from Germany as part of an exchange program with the Hochschule fuer Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden.
Since 1993, the School of Music has had an exchange program with the school for both students and faculty. This year Elsberry and Small spent seven days at the Hochschule, observing classes, meeting with students in seminar settings, teaching one-on-one and performing a recital on April 11. Prior to going to Dresden they performed in Magdeburg, a sister city of Nashville.
