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November 16, 2007

Achievers


Student Engineers Assist Elementary School in Creating CDs for Veterans
Gower & Belmont.jpgGower Elementary School’s Veteran’s Day Assembly held Wed., Nov. 7 provided an unscheduled service learning project for music business student engineers. Chris Diener and Ethan Kaiser organized the setup, ran the PA and recorded the concert of patriotic music performed by the elementary school students. Dan Wujcik, Instructor of Audio Engineering Technology, supervised the student engineers and mixed and edited the recording which was used to create CD gifts to honor the veterans at the VA Hospital. Music teacher and mother of two Belmont alumni, Rita Carpenter, and Principal Lorraine Johnson were grateful to Belmont for providing the equipment,and engineers. Lisa Spencer, meteorologist from WSMV Channel 4, sang "The Star Spangled Banner" at the event, and the entire concert aired earlier this week on WTVF Channel 5 News.

Shores Selected to Contribute to Nursing Licensure Exam
shores2.jpgDr. Lynne Shores, associate professor of nursing, was approved by the Tennessee Board of Nursing and selected by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) to participate on the Licensure Examination item development panel of subject matter experts that was held in Chicago, Ill., Oct. 24-27. NCSBN, headquartered in Chicago, is responsible for developing and administering the NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN licensing examinations. Shores, one of 15 nurses from across the nation to be selected for this assignment, was nominated on the basis of clinical specialty and nursing expertise.

Riechert to Present at National Communication Association Conference
Bonnie Riechert, assistant professor of public relations in the department of communication studies, will be a panel presenter at the annual conference of the National Communication Association Nov. 15-18 in Chicago. The theme of the conference is “Communicating Worldviews: Faith-Intellect-Ethics,” and Riechert will discuss “Communicating Worldviews: Feminists of Faith.”

Alumnus Assists OTD Students with Gas Cards
Alumnus Todd Burr ('91), owner of the Shell Station at 21st Avenue South and Acklen, is providing $25 gas cards to nearly a dozen OTD students this month to help defray the costs of getting to and from occupational therapy fieldwork sites. Ruth Ford, Associate Dean of the School of Occupational Therapy, said, "Some students are traveling as far as 2,000 miles per semester to meet the 800 hours of clinical work requirement. A strong advocate for Belmont University, Todd is fully aware of the needs of students and plans to continue the service by providing more cards each month. His ongoing support is very much appreciated, and I hope faculty and staff can return the favor by stopping by his service station."

Vision Editor Receives CMA Merit Award
courtney drake award2.jpgThe Country Music Association recently selected Belmont University junior Courtney Drake, a journalism major and editor of the Belmont Vision, as the first recipient of the CMA Close Up Award of Merit. The award was created this year to honor the student who demonstrated the most creativity, dedication and promise in covering the 2007 CMA Music Festival on assignment from CMA. Drake is pictured at right (center with Bob Doerschuk and CMA Vice President of Communications Wendy Pearl; photo by Drew Maynard) after being presented the award Wed., Nov. 7 during the backstage press conference coverage of the 2007 CMA Awards at the Sommet Center in Nashville.


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