Meet the Press
Business Ethics Names Student Advisory Board
The Center for Business Ethics has created a student advisory board to help students deal with ethical issues through conferences, workshops, speakers and other resources. Founding members of the Business Ethics Center Student Advisory Board met on April 6 to identify ethics issues and formulate activities to meet student needs. Students named to the board are: Angela Calhoun, Tim Wildsmith, Meredith Kendall, Derek Colby, Calle Griffith and Nathan Potter.
Belmont presents city’s largest Latin Music Street Fair – Nashville City Paper
Growing up in New Mexico, David Herrera, instructor of music business at Belmont, frequently enjoyed the pageantry and cuisine at various street fairs. Saturday Herrera, in conjunction with the Tennessee Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA’s Hispanic Achievers Program and several sponsors, will be spearheading Música Caliente, Nashville’s largest Latin Music Street Fair on the Belmont campus. Read the whole story online at NashvilleCityPaper.com.
Family Literacy Day Gives Hundreds of Books to Area Children
Read With Me, Belmont University’s Family Literacy Day event aimed at encouraging reading by children from pre-kindergarten through grade 6, was another big success for the five-year-old event, says organizer Tim Stewart, Coordinator of Community Service at Belmont. The event is one of many components of the Belmont Volunteers for Literacy program, along with ongoing tutoring programs at Carter-Lawrence School, Sevier Park Community Center and English tutoring with children and adults through the YMCA Hispanic Achievers program. It brings together several campus organizations such as the Black Student Alliance, the foreign language majors, the Student Athlete Council and numerous fraternities and sororities.
Belmont’s Ashley Robertson Wins European CMA Award
Ashley Robertson, a junior music business major at Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, has been awarded Favorite Female Vocalist of the Year by the European Country Music Association. Robertson will travel to Barcelona, Spain in June to accept the award. you can read more about her story, and how she has built a large fan base in Europe, in the Belmont Vision here.
Belmont Student Wins European CMA Award
Ashley Robertson, a junior music business major at Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, has been awarded Favorite Female Vocalist of the Year by the European Country Music Association. Robertson will travel to Barcelona, Spain in June to accept the award. you can read more about her story, and how she has built a large fan base in Europe, in the Belmont Vision here.
Belmont Schedules Earth Day Activities
Belmont University has scheduled a number of activities related to Earth Day, sponsored by the O.N.E. Club and students taking an Environmental Studies class.
Hay Honored in New York City
Dr. Betsy Hay in the School of Nursing will be presented with the Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital Alumni Associations’ Distinguished Alumni Award on Fri., April 22, in New York City. This award goes to those who have made major contributions to a variety of fields of nursing. Hay is being recognized for her significant contributions to nursing education to the students of Belmont University.
Psychology Students Attend Conference
Eleven students from Belmont University recently attended the 51st annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychology Association (SEPA). These students attended poster sessions and lectures and helped serve as local area hosts for the meeting. Students attending were: Laura Bear, Sarah DeNeal, Radha Dunham, James Goodlad, April Hicks, Mary Hyatt, Domonique Lawless, Sarah Miles, Emily Sheffer, Elise Tyler and Shandus Valentine.
Sheffer and DeNeal presented their independent research as a poster at the SEPA regional meeting. Their research was entitled “The Collegiate Life: Effects of Mental Fatigue on Decision Making.” The faculty sponsor for this research was Dr. Lonnie Yandell.
Sheffer and Belmont graduate Jessica Bailey (’04) were awarded second place in the 2005 SEPA/CEPO Student Research Competition. The competition was open to graduate and undergraduate psychology students across the Southeast who were studying minority or women’s issues. Their paper, “Gender Differences in Identifying Heroic Status: A Study of Male and Female Heroic Characteristics,” examined whether men and women differed in their use of masculine and feminine traits describing heroic figures in order to better understand why male heroes are more prevalent in society. Sheffer and Bailey were the only undergraduate students to be recognized in this competition. Assistant Professor of Psychology Mike Sullivan supervised their project.
Alumna Honored as Teacher of the Year
Lanita Harris (’91) was named Metro-Nashville Public Schools’ high school teacher of the year. Harris teaches English at Hunters Lane High School.
“My love of the written word and my desire to share that love with others continually renews my joy of being a lifelong teacher and learner,” Harris said. “I want students to realize the opportunities a solid education can provide for them.”
Harris will advance to statewide competition and the winners at the state level will advance to the national competition.
Harris studied English and education while a student at Belmont.
