The Goal: Reducing Nashville’s Rising Murder Rate
Belmont University is inviting the media to cover a very important anti-violence symposium on the Belmont campus at 2 p.m. today that is intended to lead to solutions to help reduce Nashville’s rising homicide rate. The Nashville Against Violence Symposium is set for 2-4 p.m., today, (Thursday, Jan. 19) in the Vince Gill Room at the Curb Event Center. The Rev. Ray Hammond, M.D., of Boston’s Bethel AME Church, founder of the Ten Point Coalition, which was successful in reducing Boston’s rising murder rate, will lead a conversation about possible ways to address the homicide problem in our city. The by-invitation event is open to the media.
Nashville Against Violence Symposium Today
“Body Farm” Founder To Speak at Belmont Tonight
Retired forensics expert to give annual Vaughn Science Lecture
Dr. Bill Bass, retired forensics expert known for his dead body “farm” at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, will deliver the annual Vaughn Science Lecture at Belmont University, 7 p.m. Thursday, in the Massey Boardroom. The Vaughn Science Lecture is held annually and serves to highlight scientific research and its ramifications to both undergraduate science majors and the more general audience of non-science students and faculty. Dr. Bass, professor emeritus and founder of the Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, has titled his talk “Your Bones Are Your ID.” A reception follows the lecture.
White-Hammond in the Sudan
The Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, who spoke at Belmont University Wednesday about the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan and about mentoring at-risk youth, recently lead a delegation to Sudan. National Public Radio had a report on the trip yesterday.
Spring Semester Starts With SERVE Project
32 of Belmont University’s newest students participated in a SERVE event to kick off their Belmont experience at the start of the new spring semester, reports the Office of New Student Programs in the Dean of Students office. Echoing the fall semester’s SERVE event – which stands for Students Engaging and Restoring through Volunteer Experiences – the 32 new Belmont students volunteered at the Nashville Rescue Mission warehouse, where they sorted shoes, organized clothing and provided other help to the charitable organization. SERVE is a foundational experience for new Belmont students.
Belmont Sets Anti-Violence Symposium As Part of MLK Week
An anti-violence symposium focusing on a church-based approach to reducing Nashville’s homicide rate is the cornerstone of a week of events planned for Martin Luther King Jr. Week at Belmont University, honoring the late civil rights leader. With Nashville’s murder rate on the rise, Belmont University has called the Nashville Against Violence Symposium (2-4 p.m., Jan. 19 in the Vince Gill Room at the Curb Event Center) at a critical time, and invited the Rev. Ray Hammond, M.D., founder of the Ten Point Coalition, to lead a conversation about possible ways to address the homicide problem in our city. Hammond’s Ten Point Coalition brought together urban pastors, the Boston mayor’s office, and leaders among the police and judiciary, and the effort was so successful at reducing the city’s skyrocketing murder rate in Boston that that other cities began adopting it.
Music Industry Economic Impact Study Makes Waves
Belmont University’s ground-breaking research quantifying for the first time ever the economic impact of Nashville’s best-known industry has been featured in press coverage locally and beyond. Here is a sampling of the coverage…
Belmont, Chamber Release Music Industry Economic Impact Study
Belmont University and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce today released a new study showing the total economic impact of the music industry in Nashville is $6.38 billion. The study, The Economic Impact of the Music Industry
In the Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro MSA, is the first ever to assess the economic impact of Music City’s signature industry It was commissioned by the Chamber and its Music Associations Task Force and conducted by the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business at Belmont. The university, located just off Nashville’s famed Music Row, is home to the nationally renowned Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business.
“For the first time in Music City, everyone from policymakers and businesspeople to entertainers and everyday citizens will be able to grasp the true economic value of the music industry,” said Dr. Patrick Raines, dean of the college of business and professor of economics at Belmont University. “Until now, we’ve mainly focused on the entertainment value, which is very, very significant. But supporting statistics are important too, and this economic impact study provides a conservative but very holistic view.”
Wollaber Article Reports on Efforts to Improve Nursing Education Clinical Placements Process
Development of an On-line Clinical Placement Program, an article by Dr. Debra Wollaber, Dean of the School of Nursing at Belmont University, was published in the December-January issue of Healthcare Heartbeat, the newsletter of the Tennessee Center for Nursing. The article looks at the proposed development of a regional centralized on-line clinical placement program to enhance nursing education in middle Tennessee.
Live From Honduras
A nine-person team including students from Belmont University and Middle Tennessee State University is currently traveling in Honduras in support of the efforts of the KidSake Foundation. The team also is there to explore other opportunities for missions and ministries for future teams. You can read almost-real-time reports from the field, from students on the mission trip and from team leader Paul Chenoweth, at Reporting from Honduras.
Adrienne Young is mindful in her music-making
In the music industry, the notion of virtue can seem as anachronistic as a 78 rpm record. Yet, guided by such moral tenets as industry, thrift and sincerity, Adrienne Young is crafting a stellar career without the financial or promotional support of corporate Nashville. … Young was born and raised in a musical family in Florida. In the late 1990s, she moved to Nashville, where she graduated from Belmont University with double majors in Music Business and Spanish. Read the whole Raleigh News & Observer story online here.
